Kodak Hypo Clear is designed to help clean film in cold water (in the 50s), so that would be useful to use. The cloudiness in the hot water is just air bubbles, so may not be much of a concern. You...
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Kodak Hypo Clear is designed to help clean film in cold water (in the 50s), so that would be useful to use. The cloudiness in the hot water is just air bubbles, so may not be much of a concern. You...
Yeah...over the years I have gotten use to my name being spelled Vaughan, Vaugh, and such things. Giving my name at pizza places and such, I have learned to say "Von," while giving the peace sign,...
With iPhone selfies, etc. being so popular, it seems a slightly wide lens is the new 'standard'.
H&S should be fine -- with a wider lens like the 250mm (not that wide really) you might need to pay a little more attention to the relative height of the camera and keeping the back parallel to the...
Mortensen could have, and probably did, write the book on hair removal...
But did your grandfather own the mineral (oil) rights under his land?
My grandfather was a Bakersfield oil man around the same time...closer to 1910. He married into the Canfield family (a niece)...
I shared this image a few times, but it is an example of what can happen when one points the camera towards the sun...it can work...:cool:
The back-lit conifers make such wonderful shapes!
Would it help with coverage in your example if one focuses a little closer in and used DoF to pull the background into focus? May not be significant. My Fuji W 360 barely covers 11x14, so besides...
Ilford made FP4 Special Portrait 124 'back in the day'.
150mm/f5.6 lenses are common and not very expensive. The love of German glass seemed to keep the prices of the Fuji glass down for awhile (and a lack of North American distribution), but they are...
I have a Turner Reich triple converitable that the rear element used alone is 28", or about 710mm. Not razor sharp, more like an over-used Exacto blade. Covers 8x10 easily, but I have to bring out...
Nice, Jim. I prefer lunar eclipses -- much quieter, no one else around, the rush of seeing the moon completely hidden and have all the stars and metorites jump out from the night. On 8x10 I...
Makes sense, Maris. There's a bit of art (or at least common sense) that goes into a proper test strip...which for me means big enough to be useful, and placed where one gets the most useful...
Most likely! :cool:
Instead of any significant dodging, I made the base exposure a little light, then burnt the print down selectively until I saw what I wanted. I used the base exposure to burn...
That's cool...and, right, wrong, or otherwise, working in seconds is intuitive for me (back in my silver printing days).
As an aside, I would rarely have a goal of making a 16x20 print to look...
One way is just as good as another way. There is nothing that makes one method 'superior' or "more intuitive" than the other...other than how the individual wants to think about it and what they are...
Saw a pretty cool printed-out image of a fully eclipsed sun taken by the Lick Observatory (but not at the Lick Observatory). The sun was about 8 to 10 inches in diameter on the negative. Printed by...
Welcome! Great photo!
If the paper is over-sized and/or if one used a hair drier to dry the freshly applied platinum/palladium solution too soon, then one can have the situation where much of the pt/pd solution dried on...
A challenging composition! Excellent!
It was the view from the back deck where I had my morning tea and watched the swirlies. I was a month in Wales and Northern Scotland (May/June). Blessed with unusual good weather. Traveling with...
I spent a couple weeks in Bangor - my son was renting a house in sight of the Menai Bridge while going to Uni there. It was a good place to explore from. Anglesea is pretty, the bridge was fun to...
I owned a Rajah (spelling?), which was an Indian copy of a Deardorff Special (a 4x5/5x7 camera). Design was exact. Quality was 7.5 out 10 compared to the real thing...once a major light leak was...
The tool forms the user as much as the user forms with the tool. So it is an important choice, and much depends on the type/look of the images one would like to make. For example, movements allow for...
I was a member of an artist cooperative gallery for 20 years. Worked a couple afternoons a month at the gallery and a little monthly committee work. In exchange, my work was up on the wall, and...
How many loaded holders does one take on a multi-day road trip?
My answer -- all of them (about thirty 8x10, a dozen or so 5x7, and about eight 11x14). I prefer not to change film on the road and...
Generally 5 to 6 holders...4x5, 5x7, and 8x10. With 11x14, perhaps 3 holders. I often expose two negatives for each image and even still, 80% of the time I come back with unexposed film. The other...
I used a version of John's second method above, but for several years have been using Jobo Expert Drums (3006 and 3005) on a motor base. for my 5x7s (also 4x5 & 8x10). Quite nice. The drums have been...
Definitely -- it would eat a full day, but a great way to see some of the countryside from the train (2 hours each way). Once in Nikko, we walked, but busses can take people to the World Heritage...
I have also bleached a negative slightly to reduce the shadows, re-fixed, washed, and then selenium toned. Works well if the shadows are already fully exposed. None of this works very well with thin...
Very sweet looking show! March looks to be busy, so I doubt if I'll get up your way for t he show.
Good luck!
Followed your link to some of your great Lava Beds images -- love that place!
Yes. But then everything does.
If you want to get away from the city itself for a day, take the train(s) to Nikko for the day.
The free public observation room at the top of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (about...
So far, the huge numbers of heavily manipulated digital images/prints has led me to appreciate the qualities of a handmade print even more. Secondly, I am more interested in the qualities of light a...
Yes, and an International Travel-all in there for awhile.
And a burro, too (but no photos of AA up on a pack-top roof rack). Personally, I packed mules for ten years while doing trail work and...
By all accounts he was looking forward to the digital age, so he missed that boat, too. Instead, he drove his wood-sided land yacht off into the sunset.:cool:
I know! And people still listening to live music, too, when we have ear-buds and all that stuff. Unbelievable! :cool:
And obviously Ansel's work became much better when he started using the...
Hearing "under" and/or "over" used for exposure and/or development, I tend to think of someone making a mistake.
I tend not to use contrast controls when printing alt processes, so I have to get...
Perfect!
True, but if someone says on this forum they just want to make a negative that is 'good enough', they get criticized for not trying hard enough. It's a tough world. :cool:
That is what I aim...