It is interesting to me that artists such as Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman, and Gregory Crewdson are all heirs to Mortensen's photographic sensibility in a way, but are far more accepted. Probably because...
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It is interesting to me that artists such as Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman, and Gregory Crewdson are all heirs to Mortensen's photographic sensibility in a way, but are far more accepted. Probably because...
A while back, I inquired on this forum about drum scanning labs that can handle large (12x20 and 7x17) sheets of film. Several people recommended Ian Mazursky at PrePress Express. I just got back a...
Your're probably right. Every time I ask myself whether I am getting too cynical, events transpire that indicate I have not been cynical enough.
This has to be about the dumbest thing I have seen in a while. So they split film sales and marketing up into two divisions. Just how are they going to assign costs from what is most likely a common...
The future ain't what it used to be.
Thanks for taking the time to do this so carefully. Very interesting results. Think I'll keep by HR8000 scanner for a while longer.
I concur. My 4 year old MacPro handles 39Megapixel Phase One files just fine without any problems. The new iMacs are more powerful than what I am using.
I do alt process work using both traditional in-camera negatives and digital negatives using the QTR approach. Like many things in life, if you give two people identical ingredients and tools, the...
As far as I am aware, no one has programmed a computer to feel pleasure yet. Yet that is what the best art does to us meat computers. I'm just saying.
I agree that his phrase is maybe not the best formulation. But he wrote it and now we gotta live with it. Like many concepts, it really only puts a name to something we already inherently understand....
Jay, it sounds like you are fishing for some commentary about the effect that changes in the wider world that we live in will have on photography as art. Is that a fair summary?
My...
My Howtek HR8000 is not loud at all, just a tick,tick,tick sound as it scans. I had it right next to my desk for years, and I would let it do its thing while I worked on other things on the computer.
I looked at Dalton's theme, and it looks like a really good option for a hassle free approach to getting a functional website quickly. Unless you enjoy hacking around with HTML, CSS, php and...
I am using wordpress for a CMS on my website. The approach I am taking is to embed Lightroom HTML galleries into static pages using one of several plugins that essentially use an iframe to put the...
You really need a press with a decent sized upper roller to get the best prints from photogravure. A small 15" conrad press with an upsized roller will work fine. They run about 1/15 the cost of a mf...
I have a place near RMNP that we have been going to for the last twenty years for a few weeks each summer. I will echo the earlier comments that it is a very beautiful place where it is exceedingly...
Shoot a cloth shuttered Leica M at a slow shutter speed in the vertical orientation with the shutter release on the lower right relative to the photographer.
Neither print is reality. The scene was in color, and these are black and white photographs. What made Ansel great was his ability to use his knowledge of how his materials (camera, film and paper)...
I'd like to re-iterate what Joanna is saying about the three VM options NOT being emulators. They are virtual machines, which is a very different thing. We run a citrix server at my office that is a...
I also had an earlier version of Parallels that was flaky, which was why I picked up VMware Fusion. The latest version of Parallels is much better and very stable, however.
I have both Parallels and VMware Fusion. They both work pretty well, and as long as you have a multi-core Mac, they should all run fine. I can't say I have a preference for one over the other,...
Thanks Sandy. Just the info I needed.
Even though I am full fledged propeller-head with my own drum scanner, the drum will only hold up to about a 8x10 piece of film. I recently have run into the need to scan an older 12x20 negative from...
Yes, it does, and thank you for your in-depth reply.
I am a long time user of QTR for all my digital negatives (and positives for polymer gravure), so I am pretty familiar with the guts of the...
Jon, just so I can understand: you will actually supply the ink-descriptor (.qidf) file, and that would allow users to modify the linearization portion and/or the gray curve to match their own...
This is interesting. Basically, he is offering some pre-configured digital negative Quadtone RIP profiles for his inksets. For workers who are not inclined to develop their own QTR profiles, there...
My site is based on wordpress, Lightroom and the Thesis customizable theme:
www.clayharmon.com
I've been to Iceland twice with Bill, and it was a fantastic experience. It is a landscape shooter's heaven, and Bill makes the entire experience a lot of fun.
I am a mac guy, but I have a PC that I have hooked to my HiResolve scanner so I can use DPL. As Lenny says, this software is very good. Very easy to use but still gives you full control over just...
When I log into the forum from my iPhone, it used to just pull up the nice reduced size web page that was like my computer screen, only smaller. Now when I use my iphone, it has an alternative...
Some of the very warm toned early 1900s vintage prints you see in museums were mercury toned. Needless to say, this technique is discouraged today because of the obvious dangers of mercury use.
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Did I get the argument right? Just wondering.
Here are the QTR profiles for the 1400. One is for palladium, the other for polymer photogravure positives. Probably not perfect, but they seem to work very well for me.
I have been using a cheap 1400 and QTR profiles for making digital negatives when I do workshops away from home. It is not as good as my 7800 in terms of density, but it is capable of making digital...
I actually knew of one of these UV enlargers that was installed, and then the tricky question of focusing the image came into play. Not only does UV focus on a slightly different plane (the old...
I believe i have never read a bigger load of nonsense in my life.
Why I am wasting two minutes of my life posting this is a mystery even to me, but here goes:
The idea that a process or technique possesses integrity is what is called a category error in...
Oh good grief. When I see the phrase 'digital manipulation' used in a post like this, it brings only one image to my mind, and that image has nothing to do with photography and everything to do with...
Fotofest has effectively two levels of venues. The first are the frontline, mainstream gallery spaces, large public building lobbies downtown and so forth, including several that don't normally...