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  1. Thread: Nude

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    Re: Nude

    Ustas, please post smaller images. They take way too long to load.
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    Re: What mat size for 5x7 enlargements

    (I need to read threads before responding.)
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    Re: Retouching negatives with pencil?

    Use a number 1 pencil or softer! You won't get any graphite on the negative with harder leads.
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    Re: Questions re vandyke processing

    Sodium thiosulfate crystals. 30g per 1000ml for a 3% solution. Two baths. Change A after ten prints with B, and mix up a new B.
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    Re: Questions re vandyke processing

    You're trying to compare apples to oranges with silver gelatin and Van Dyke negative comparisons. Stop trying. You need two different negatives. There's something about emulsion curves you're not...
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    Re: Questions re vandyke processing

    Unless your negative is perfect, or digital, you'll probably need a bit of dichromate in the water to get any kind of highlights. Test about three prints processed exactly the same way, except for...
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    Re: Questions re vandyke processing

    I've been doing Van Dykes quite a while now. I can't speak for anywhere else, but, in California, you need to crank up the room to around 80 degrees and 70 percent humidity, and keep the paper in...
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    Re: Push ISO 400 film

    Whatever. I regularly push T-Max 400 two stops, develop in Clayton f-60 1-9 75 degrees for 15 minutes, light agitation.

    You'll love the results. Excellent shadow detail. You can pretty much...
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    You forgot duplicating film and lith film for enlarging. Both APUG acceptable methods of enlarging. Before digital anything, that's the way it had to be done! With lith, you have to make a...
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i414/Moncoon/Cyan1006.jpg
    4x5 T-Max 400, developed in Clayton f-60 for 8 min, 75degrees 1-9 dilution. Enlarged 8x10 regular cyanotype, 1:1 acid. Arches Platine.
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i414/Moncoon/Cyan6011.jpg
    4x5 T-Max 400, developed in Clayton f-60 for 8 min, 75degrees 1-9 dilution. Enlarged 8x10 regular cyanotype, 1:1 acid. Arches Platine.
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i414/Moncoon/Cyan9014.jpg
    4x5 T-Max 400, developed in Clayton f-60 for 8 min, 75degrees 1-9 dilution. Enlarged 8x10 regular cyanotype, 1:1 acid. Arches Platine.
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i414/Moncoon/Cyan10015.jpg
    4x5 T-Max 400, developed in Clayton f-60 for 8 min, 75degrees 1-9 dilution. Enlarged 8x10 regular cyanotype, 1:1 acid. Arches Platine.
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i414/Moncoon/Cyan11016.jpg
    4x5 T-Max 400, developed in Clayton f-60 for 8 min, 75degrees 1-9 dilution. Enlarged 8x10 regular cyanotype, 1:1 acid. Arches Platine.
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i414/Moncoon/Cyan15020.jpg
    4x5 T-Max 400, developed in Clayton f-60 for 8 min, 75degrees 1-9 dilution. Enlarged 8x10 regular cyanotype, 1:1 acid. Arches Platine.
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    Re: Recommend a book on Alternative Processes

    I love Jame's book, too, for everything alt. But, for digital negatives, it's about the last book I'd reference.
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    Re: Recommend a book on Alternative Processes

    Borders on Lake in Pasadena. Freestyle in Hollywood had a copy a few months ago. Samy's on Walnut and Fair Oaks. How many copies would you like? I'm sure I can find some. I keep seeing it all...
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    Crikey. I just figured out this thread is 65 pages of alt processes! Wow.
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    Re: Recommend a book on Alternative Processes

    Out of print? Really? His second edition? It is still pretty available. I see it all the time in stores. Maybe get a copy before it gets expensive. If you don't have Dick Arentz pt/pd book,...
  20. Re: 2nd Annual Juried Alternative & Historical Process Show

    Son of a gun, I wish I knew about this! Crikey sheisters! I knew I should have been paying attention to this site instead of Model Mayhem. But, it's so fun over there.
    Well, at least there's...
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    I'm having a tough time figuring this out. Sorry.

    Are art nudes allowed here?
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    Re: Easy intro to alternative processes

    Anything with mercury in it.
    Selenium toner
    Silver nitrate
    Ammonium and potassium dichromate
    Many, many others in my darkroom alone!
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    Re: Recommend a book on Alternative Processes

    Oh, it's digital negatives you want?

    Try Mark Nelsons ebook, "Precision Digital Negatives."

    Master that and you'll be set for life for digital negatives.
    Also well done, and decent...
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    http://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/pic/19786051
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    Re: Recommend a book on Alternative Processes

    (Still getting the hang of this site. Bare/bear with me.)
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    Re: post alternative techniques

    Well, if I can figure out how to post an attachment, I'll play along. Alt process is my life.
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    Re: 8"x10" Paper Negative Box Camera Images

    Those are all wonderful!
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    Re: Tri-X or T-Max.

    You can go through a box of 50 in a single shooting session with a model. I shoot almost exclusively T-Max 400 shooting indoors or outdoors with models, and T-Max 100 for landscapes. T-Max 100 does...
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