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    Re: Ignorant Bliss of a Mall Photographer

    I've brought my D70 to malls a couple of times, including the Mall of America, and walked around snapping photos. No one even paid any attention to me. Street photography in a mall, basically. I...
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    Re: Converting to B&W, CS3 redeux !!!

    Paul, if possible, you can scan your neg/trans again (darker) to capture more highlight detail, then use a layer of the darker scan over or under the lighter scan and use a layer mask to "paint" on...
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    Re: What makes a pro?

    To me a professional photographer is simply one who gets paid for photographing something, whether its a wedding, machine parts for a catalog, portraits, architecture, etc. It often has little to do...
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    Re: The Impact of Black and White

    it almost seems like the portraits taken in color are too distracting, taking away from what you're trying to show. With well-exposed black and white film, to me, it seems like there is no mystery...
  5. Thread: scam?

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    Re: scam?

    Thanks for the heads up. This smelled like a scam right away but I thought I'd get some opinions from you guys. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
  6. Thread: scam?

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    scam?

    Hi folks,

    I'm selling a lens and this is the reply I received today from a fellow who gives me a somewhat supicious plan for payment:

    "FurtherMore, He is in debt with me and he is ready to make...
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    Re: Does the World Need Another Aspen Image?

    Ah, one of those perennial debates. I basically agree with paulr’s observations. There will always be “artistes” who strive for absolute originality, and regular folks who just photograph what...
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    Re: Camera Clubs and Fine Art Photography

    I liked the article. It described the differences between the two mindsets nicely. It also shows why so many photographers are somewhat confused as to what they are striving for. I myself, wonder...
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    Re: Overdone Cliche Subjects

    Just for the sake of argument:

    The paradox is that, because of their prevelance, cliches must be very "powerfull." Just look at the highest rated photos any given day on photonet. Most are...
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    Re: Overdone Cliche Subjects

    Using your test Paul, could it be that the "look" of film is now a cliche? How about Large Format?

    Just playing Devil's Advocate ;>)
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    Re: The hopeful future of film photography

    Robert, my observations apply to the way I use photograpy. If you looked at my 70's folder you would see that I did very effective candid portraiture with film formats from 35mm to 4x5. I know what...
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    Re: The hopeful future of film photography

    Robert, that is a meaningless statement unless you qualify what type of photography you do. I looked at your website and I can see you do landscapes. I too, would choose large format film for such...
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    Re: Hello from Minnesota

    Greetings from over here in St. Paul.
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    Re: The hopeful future of film photography

    Like many threads on this forum, this is a good one. This topic comes up frequently, and no wonder. I, for one, realize that am going through a long period of grieving that started about a year...
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    Re: "Are you a photographer?"

    I love that scene in Blow Up where David Hemmings is photographing the woman and she is obviously upset about it and she tells him something like "you can't just take people's pictures . . ." and he...
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    Re: RIP Arnold Newman

    He is the "Gold Standard" for me for portraits. Rest in Peace.
  17. Re: Portrait perspective: Quiz and two questions

    I've shot many many fine portraits, even "head and shoulders" with 35mm format with the 50mm lens and the 105mm lens. I think some fashion photogs use longer lenses to flatten perspective and blur...
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    Re: HDR Image Pool on Flickr

    I do it in layers like Wick is proposing. I like the control and things don't end up looking like a cartoon. This does allow almost any dynamic range you can capture with two or more...
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    Re: Bob Kolbrener

    Yup, I guess we're in agreement here. I was also thinking about the music analogy. My daughter enjoys "underground Hip Hop" and when I listen to it I have no idea what its all about, although I can...
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    Re: Bob Kolbrener

    Well paul, I am in total agreement with you there: "a quite familiar treatment of a familiar subject."

    Does this mean that an increasingly "unfamiliar treatment" of a familiar subject will get...
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    Re: Bob Kolbrener

    Hey Paul, nature is grand! I think many people will always enjoy this type of photograph, especially when done well like these prints appear to be. I agree however, that it certainly isn't a...
  22. Agonizing on Apertures -- photos done wide open

    If not wide open, then almost. 10 inch Caltar on 4x5.

    http://gallery.photo.net/photo/1895862-lg.jpg
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    Hc 110 and hp5 plus

    Domenico,

    Some folks like to use dilution "H," which is also given by Covington. It appears to be half the strength of dilution B. That's 1:63, or 7.5 ml of syrup to 480mm solution. You get...
  24. Got to play with a Cooke Portrait PS945 lens

    Just a side note: a fellow on pnet/Nikon forum posted some interesting photos taken with a older 50mm 1.4 Nikkor that had been lightly sandblasted, which resulted in a rather unique look of softness.
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    Drifting away from.....

    For me photography is photography. I used a black and white darkroom and shot 35mm-4x5 since the 1960’s. Gave it up for lack of time when the kids were born, job demands, grad school, home...
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    Is color a distraction?

    I don't know why, or even care acually, but I noticed lately as I shoot more color, that most of my color compositions look best printed as color, and they are not as effective printed black and...
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    Why make photographs?

    The world is so interesting, I just have to get some of it on film (or silicon) and make a print, of course.
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    Name Your Tip

    I store and carry my lenses in empty CD holder cases. They are cheap and have a zipper all the way around and are just the right size.
  29. New article by Scott Rosenberg: Scanning B&W on the Microtek 1800F

    Just a note: I just checked the channels on a scan of a 4x5 chrome from my Epson 2450. The blue channel is definitely the sharpest one. I haven't tried scanning a black and white neg as a color...
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    Bullshit

    "Truth" is how a photograph or other work of art makes you feel in your gut. Bullshit (or Elephant Shit, as Perls would say) is what you explain to yourself or others about what the photograph or...
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    handmade digital prints

    I agree with adrian's original statement. I made darkroom prints for over 20 years, and I made some pretty nice prints. Nowadays I use scans or digital camera files and PS. I feel much more...
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    I hate digital

    I fail to see how using a large format camera is somehow antithetical to using digital camaras and vice versa. Sure, I will use my 4x5 to capture the detail of a landscape, like I have for over 30...
  33. Thread: Duende

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    Duende

    First entry on a google search of duende gives a quote from Spainish poet Federico Garcia Lorca:

    ". . .Thus duende is a power and not a behavior, it is a struggle and not a concept. I have heard...
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    Manipulated NOT?

    It sounds like the real issue to the viewing audience is "does the photo look manipulated," which is a completely different issue from actually being manipulated. It seems OK to most people when...
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    B+W digital to FCA Pro type DP ?

    Rob, I don't know exactly what TYPE DP is, but I have black and white digital Fuji prints made all the time, both from a digital camera and from scanned black and white negatives. I feel that tonal...
  36. Protar V 6.5x8.5: worth putting in shutter?

    Dan, I was given one of these years ago. Mine is front mounted in a #2 Acme Ilex shutter. Mine has a small scratch on the front element and the filter ring has a slight ding. I shoot 4x5 and the...
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    Mastery of the Medium?

    I think" mastery of the medium" is when your print looks as good as you had envisioned, or better! Commercial or artistic success of your prints is dependent on fickle forces that may or may not...
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    image manipulation in photograpy

    Thank you Tim, Dan, Doug, paulr. This was the kind of discussion I was after.

    I just realized that you could maybe seperate image manipulation into two broad catagories: 1) for the purpose of...
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    image manipulation in photograpy

    "Steve made this good point: You seem to want to single out digital manipulations as if they're so hugely different than what photographers have been doing for at least 100 years. "
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    image manipulation in photograpy

    For me the issue is not removing power lines or manhole covers or making subtle additions that the viewer is not aware of as being an alteration. It is the intentional inclusion of obvious elements...
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