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    Re: Marts 2014 portraits

    you're welcome.. you should send Robert a thanks.. his pic & his design (breaks apart easily for transportation as well..)
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    Re: Marts 2014 portraits

    You can get in touch with Robert her at http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/member.php?7007-Robert-Hall

    here's a pic
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    Re: How about some infrared images

    thanks for commenting Victoria!
    With a scanning back, the movement won't show itself in softness.. it becomes a wavy distortion. (these image were taken with the brace). Shortest scan time for full...
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    Re: How about some infrared images

    9.5" Veritos, Betterlight scanning back
    (no IR block filter, so a combination of IR and visible light)

    34 second scans
    (these were tests to try out a studio Head Brace that Robert Hall made for...
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    Re: Marts 2014 portraits

    A friend built me a studio head brace... so thought I'd play around a bit with it ...
    34 second exposures & some photographers I get together with each month.

    Betterlight scanning back & Veritos...
  6. Re: Alt-Process Prints from Digital Negatives or Positives

    ... and this would be allowed outside of the Lounge as well.


    a large format digital image

    Ebony sv45te, Betterlight scanning back

    Pt/Pd (1drop:3 drop ratio) Ziatype over color pigments on...
  7. Re: Alt-Process Prints from Digital Negatives or Positives

    Image shot with Leica M9, 21mm preaspsh
    digital neg on Inkpress, HPz3200 and built in digital neg profile
    Ziatype, on Goyu Kozo paper
    30 drops Lithium Chloropalladite, 6 drops /Cesium...
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    Re: safe haven for tiny formats

    Lightweight (50gsm) Goyu Kozo from Bostick & Sullivan.
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    Re: safe haven for tiny formats

    an incredible eye.
    (or two)

    always enjoy seeing new work you post!
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    Re: The Chemical rays of light

    this is a debate is pretty much only found in internet forums, with only a handful of people arguing the point any more. The rest of the world (galleries, museums, etc) moved on over a decade ago....
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    Re: The Chemical rays of light

    I brought this point up in the other thread... but 'Chemical rays of light' originally referred to the UV spectrum. If you're taking everything at it's historic verbatim.. that would rule out pretty...
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    Re: safe haven for tiny formats

    this would make a great carbon print..

    excellent!!
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    Re: safe haven for tiny formats

    love this one!
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    Re: safe haven for tiny formats

    alt process .. scans of prints

    Both Ziatypes.. scans of 9x14" prints on Japanese lightweight Kozo paper (about 50gsm)
    30 drops Lithium Palladium, 6 drops Cesium Palladium.
    Paper was pre coated...
  15. Re: Alternative Prints from Digital Negatives and Positives

    i'm also assuming that only in-camera negatives/prints exposed with strictly UV light would be considered photographs :) (The term 'chemical rays of light' referred to the UV spectrum in the 19th...
  16. Re: Alternative Prints from Digital Negatives and Positives

    +1 on allowing them giving Sandy's & Rick's stipulations..

    This has always been a welcome place for both analog and digital (I've been posting large format digital images since I joined, back in...
  17. Re: SCANBACK: DICOMED (early betterlight) or POWERPHASE FX

    33 seconds to scan :) Given the amount of work being done in Wet Plate, 33 seconds doesn't feel like all that long :D

    Given that you can usually find a used Betterlight on ebay, the price would...
  18. Re: SCANBACK: DICOMED (early betterlight) or POWERPHASE FX

    +1 on the Dicomed.. Betterlight has had the best support of any company I've dealt with. I've never used a Dicomed.. but I got my Betterlight in 2001, and it's been working without an issue since...
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    Re: What is your printing process?

    whoops.. sorry. i missed the silver specific.. disregard!
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    Re: What is your printing process?

    platinum/palladium ziatype

    1. scan the negative, or start with a digital file.

    2. prepare it in Photoshop the way I want the print to look (monitor's calibrated for this0

    3. print the...
  21. Thread: New Mac Pro

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    Re: New Mac Pro

    some interesting comparison numbers here.. the iMac doesn't do all that bad in comparison...
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  22. Thread: New Mac Pro

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    Re: New Mac Pro

    i'm using the one just released at home (the one on the right http://www.apple.com/imac/specs/ )

    It is a fun company to work for!
  23. Re: Inexpensive printer for carbon prints?

    yup.. just like a camera.. push a button, and you have art :D

    i'd be careful of putting pigment inks in a printer designed specifically for dye inks. If it's an inexpensive printer, I don't think...
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    Re: New Mac Pro

    It was also surprising that a number of the 'take-it-apart' sites tried to spec a similar PC, and found they couldn't do it for much less than the Mac.
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    Re: New Mac Pro

    i'm using the new iMac at home, and had the prior gen Mac Pro. Although the iMac isn't expandable, it runs rings around a fully spec'ed mac pro (not the new one) for Photoshop work.

    I'd probably...
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    Re: New Mac Pro

    I use one at work (it really is a work of art). Biggest problem for you is that it only has USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt 2 ports.. no Firewire at all. (as far as the z3200 goes.. i have one, and mine...
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    Re: Hello From Tracy, California

    yup.. Santa Cruz here. Welcome!

    (an aside. Ari.. where in Ontario? I grew up in Trenton...)
  28. Re: How much does it cost to print in platinum...and is it worth it?

    Bad news on the book The New Platinum Print. It's been out of print for a bit now, and no plans at all to re-print it. You can find copies on Amazon & ebay (some have been priced at $300 - $400.
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  29. Re: How much does it cost to print in platinum...and is it worth it?

    As the others have said.. you need to find some well done prints, since there really is no difference between a platinum, silver and inkjet if viewed as a digital representation or a book. You can...
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    Re: I'm opening a (physical) photo gallery

    Have to disagree on the bins. Just got back from Photo LA, and the top galleries in the US/World, had prints in bins there. I'd say half of the sales in the booth I was in came from prints in bins...
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    Re: time for Photo LA again...

    Thanks Tim! was good to meet you as well! sometimes it's hard to get work noticed among the contemporary work.. my stuff feels outdated (or .. 'classic') among a lot of the contemporary work...
  32. Thread: Rip

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    Re: Rip

    that's beautiful work. He's left behind a gorgeous legacy.. a very signifiant body of work.

    thank you for sharing his site
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    I'll stop by the booth and say hi.. love to see the actual prints!
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    Re: time for Photo LA again...

    i'll be the guy in the Susan Spiritus booth with an M9 hung over his shoulder

    old guy.. goatee, being just about the only hair on my head.

    :)
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    Re: time for Photo LA again...

    good info.. i'll head on over there too
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    time for Photo LA again...

    If anyone is in Los Angeles for 17, 18 Jan, I'll be staffing the Susan Spiritus Gallery booth on both those days (Fri, Sat).

    I'll have Platinum/Palladium Ziatypes hanging in the booth.

    Please...
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    Re: On craft and life.

    i appreciate your honesty. I may not agree with your philosophy though. I can understand how difficulties may bring about a negative outlook on one's place in the universe, , and there have been...
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    Re: On craft and life.

    it makes me feel good.. over the years I have created things that others enjoy, have found useful. Currently, what I do affects billions of people in one way or another. That hasn't always been the...
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    Re: On craft and life.

    as said before.. i don't photograph for anyone but myself.. however.. if someone values it enough to trade with me their effort in life.. whether it be something I hold of equal value (possibly a...
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    Re: On craft and life.

    you may be.. i'm not. I know very few people who are. Most artists I know feel enlightened by the work they produce
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