I have done something similar. I used an artist easel to hold the paper or film. It could be moved back and forth to focus, so you don't need bellows or any other mechanism to move the lens. Put a...
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I have done something similar. I used an artist easel to hold the paper or film. It could be moved back and forth to focus, so you don't need bellows or any other mechanism to move the lens. Put a...
Personally, I would get a 5x7 with a 4x5 reducing back. I started with 4x5 and added a 5x7 back later on. I found it cumbersome and the extension back greatly limited movements. I eventually bit...
A good way to gain experience and to acquire a few images is to take a workshop. I took one with Kim Weston in California and it was quite good. (Its main focus was on platinum printing). There...
A few years ago, I attended a Stieglitz exhibit. There were two prints hung side by side. Both prints were made from the same original negative. One was platinum, one was a photogravure. I...
Some info on what they did shoot:
Each film magazine would typically yield 160 color and 200 black and white pictures on special film. Kodak was asked by NASA to develop thin new films with...
"Light Science and Magic" is the only lighting book you will ever need. It covers lighting principles, not recipes. Apply the principles to get the lighting you want.
From the small world front: I opened this thread, sitting in my living room in Iowa, USA, while Skyping with my daughter who is in Wellington.
Welcome to the forums. I've visited New Zealand...
Light: Science and Magic. The only lighting book you will ever need. Invaluable.
I do my TXP-320 with D-76, 1+1 for 9 1/2 min. (for silver).
A couple of things I have learned as I expanded/changed my darkroom over the years:
1. Chances are you will change your darkroom. If you put in permanent cabinets, you may have to tear them out...
Thanks for the heads-up. I just forwarded to my son in Minneapolis.
Google "clear glass fishing floats". Here is a 9" one to get you started:
http://www.save-on-crafts.com/fishingfloats2.html
I travel to Europe a couple of times a year. Traveling with film isn't that big of a deal. I get it hand checked if carrying 3200 film. For 400 or 100, I don't worry about it and send it through...
Face up, with a twist. I put a second screen on top of the screen with the prints on it. There is a gap of about 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch between the two screens (the thickness of the metal frame of...
You can start with Dow's "Composition." You can get a free e-book from it in google books, or read it there as well.
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This statement is false.
I must be cruel to be kind.
A bit off topic: I use the single tray method for printing platinum prints on full sheets of watercolor paper. I do this out of necessity as I have not found a way to transfer the large, wet sheets...
Welcome from 191 miles west along I-80 in Iowa. (I know the distance from the 8 years I spent in Iowa City 30 years ago.)
Okay. Disruptive innovation--I'll go with that one.
It is called "creative destruction" by the economists. A new technology comes along and replaces an existing, mature, technology. Whenever the new technology appears, it is limited compared to the...
There are a lot of people out there who refer to themselves as portrait photographers. They don't spend a lot of time taking photographs of portraits.
A few years ago I stopped to photograph an abandoned farm house. The only camera I had with me was my Mamiya 7 II, a camera that I absolutely love. I was shooting it on a tripod, using slow film,...
I don't really worry about film speed when shooting LF. The one or two stop difference in shutter speed makes little difference for most of my shooting. The other characteristics of the film are...
How about drywall stilts? Most adjust 24 to 40 inches and are light weight.
My prints have "decorated" a number of funerals and visitations--not my own, yet. One example: Ten years ago I did a photo project where I photographed my wife's grandparents. They had lived in...
Albert Kahn, perhaps?
I generally use 4 liters of developer for 20x24 inch prints. It comes to about 1/2 inch depth. I hold the print face down over the print and curve the print downward. I then quickly roll the print...
I use the 3063 drum for 20x24 negatives. I do not use a film insert. While one is necessary when using pyro/staining developers, I have not needed one when using D-76. The ridges in the tube...
Print. A lot. Take chances. Make mistakes. Learn from them. Fill up the trash can. Experiment. Never be satisfied.
Andrew, that is my point. If you are fitting your negative to print on your choice of paper's grade two, even if it's a VC paper, then that is not erring--it is using the system as designed.
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Can I be arrested for photographing in public places? That is a statutory question. Currently, there is no statute prohibiting such photography, so the answer is no.
Can the legislature, city...
When I was in law school years ago, the Texas Flag burning case had just come out. On the Constitutional Law final, we had a hypothetical about a man arrested for wrapping himself in a flag (in...
Why err at all?
Your paper is VC, which means you can filter the light and set the papers ES where you want it--not accept the ES you get from the paper unfiltered. Grade two is from 1.0 to...
I have learned that terms like small, medium and large format are relative as are references to big and long lenses and negatives. Once I got used to shooting 16x20 and bigger, 8x10 seems small. ...
I use a Jobo CPP-2 for roll film, 4x5 and 8x10. The expert drums are pretty fool proof for 8x10 and 4x5. When my children were still at home, I paid them to develop my film with the Jobo. They...
The Naval Aviation Museum is terrific. If they are in town, you can see the Blue Angles practice in the mornings. Check out the website.
Apparently someone has their nose out of joint.
It sounds to me like you are saying the zone system does not consider the affect of changes in development on film speed.
“In practice it will be found that while development modification has its...
Let's see. Something a bit easier than BTZS to understand. A simple guide to get you in the ball park? A bit more control on your negatives, producing very good negatives, but you don't need...
Actually, I do have a recommendation on the last point. Seriously.
Nicholas Carr: The Shallows--What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.