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I am perhaps one of those who has unwittingly made Kirk's moderation of this forum more stressful then it should be for an open and democratic discussion which this forum strives for and celebrates....

Trust my sick Australian humour is understood...

More interestingly, I found the return to film and prints as a very plastic media with this exhibition very interesting. The use of assemblage, for...

Having to explain, using something as clumsy as mere words indexed to some sort of a-priori transcendental agreement with the transcendence of a new human god now known as Kant is one of the most...

See also:

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=54748&highlight=chris+jones+montage

Jerry Uelsmann's basic mechanics is fairly easy and requires only one enlarger. He...

I use a HP Combi Plan tank and like it very, very much. It allows control over a wide range of agitation times unlike rotary drums. I was concerned about negative comments prior to purchase but as...

These URLs which link to still life images by William Yang, an important Australian photographer and performance artist, may be of interest to others then myself.
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Put your prices up? In Australia new copyright laws allow artists to get a royalty on re-sale of their works. It would be nice if this happens to me... poverty has its limits. Congrats, Chris Jones....

Some of the still lifes I am working deal with cliche and use cliche so I was delighted by this comment. Also, I am working toward landscape, as well.

I agree that visual metaphors are cliche but...

I rather like this question because it doesn't have a yes or no answer, so it can be both yes and no and becomes an ambiguous statement, perhaps. Genre then becomes a question of varying social...

While I am at it I could send another still life in the series. This one looks like a keeper for now???

Just to pass along some thanks and also by way of my own comments for suggesting:

Looking at the Overlooked - Four Essays on Still Life Painting by Norman
Bryson

Interesting because he makes a...

If you have access to a darkroom using photographic paper is a good starter trick. You can watch yourself loading the paper into the film holder under a safelight and at the other end see problems. ...

This was one of the first along the Baroque still life line. It took me fives days to put together between other tasks, of course.

Thanks for the replies. Although I am not yet clear on what I am thinking about and did consider the still life thread, on thinking what to write it did seem more polite and democratic to start a new...

May I start a still life thread?

While researching still lifes I came across a short article on photographic still life which basically said to keep it simple, three or four linked objects. While...

Hello, I would like some suggestions on printing papers which are to be scanned as black and white prints.

Given that this involves darkroom manipulations which I cannot do with...

Some twenty years ago the story doing the rounds with undergrad communication and art students was that HD video would make film obsolete and all that training with film being then undertaken would...

kenya, speaking of weird time glitzes, this four year old discussion appeared on my unified view as a current discussion. I thought I going mad when I realised I was addressing an old discussion as...

Another interesting and very worthwhile approach would be Gilles Deleuze's writing on cinema and theories of the image. I did a seminar on his theories as an undergrad and was very impressed. These...

I am a poet ands recently have been considering how the still lifes I am working with are like lyric poetry which has a relation with modern ideas of eternal time. Nietzsche's eternal return...

Hello, the negative carriers on the 450 M-D Fujimoto enlarger I use have what look like registration pins with a 4mm diameter.

Working on some still lifes this has given me the idea that I may be...

I started with these two sites to get HC-110 to work my way.

http://www.jasonbrunner.com/hc110.html

http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/hc110/

The higher dilutions, 1+50 and 1+100, with...

I did another still life today with Shanghai 100 and HC-110 1+50, 14 minutes at 20C, slow agitation for 10secs every two minutes in a HP Combi tank and the 10x8 proof prints seem to hold more shadow...

dee, I would be interested in your results if you get a chance to post. HC-110 is something I only recently have encountered. It has a straighter curve which it seems to me can explain that contrasty...

Thanks for the discussion. I have been considering a Crown Graphic for field use during summer and was concerned it may not survive the 50 degree C outdoor temps with varying humidities and without...

Check the massive development chart. I find these times a good starting points.

I am finding HC-110 to be on the contrasty side used at 1+50 with 10 seconds agitation every two minutes for...

As a suggestion, I find the proportions two fifths and three fifths most useful (Phi to one decimal place, 1.6 but don't ask)

These can be marked on a framing card and I have considered marking...

The golden mean is also used in cinema to divide time into sections or spacial cuts.

I suspect the rule of thirds was used as an easy way to allow non-professional camera users to obtain a more...

Haven't double checked but also understand this to be a computer designed Tessar dated around 1964?

My current favourite lens but fear I may lose the shutter some time.

I have used this film in both 120 and 4X5 in a two reel Paterson tank and a HP Combi tank with good results, despite the 25 seconds needed to fill the HP Combi tank.

Gentle inversion agitation of...

Apologies for appearing off topic but I was taken with the way this discussion parallels the problems of point of view in literature, especially recent literature since the 1950s.

A few weeks ago I had some discussions with US poets, who to survive teach writing to college students and it seems that despite almost half the United States population having degrees there has been...

Oops, I should have added that I use the Ilford method of film washing for both 120 and 4x5, mainly due to wildly varying temperature problems and water quality where I live which could leave...

Can't help with the water question but setting up a darkroom in a 40 foot cat sounds like a very interesting story to me. I am trying to imagine what it would be like even if my land based darkroom...

What an interesting, polite and civil discussion this is making it a pleasure to read.

From my viewpoint this question is one of the big issues that seems to confront not only photography as art,...

Since my LF enlarger is currently being freighted to me, saying hello seems a good thing to.

But it is not for this reason alone that I write but rather to thank you all for the existence of the...

Has anyone here any comments on or experience with using a two bath selenium toner, which is to say bleach first and then tone with selenium? I have such a toner from Photochem but have yet to try it...

I have been playing with putting still life style compositions together, recently.

Apologies for the poor resolution this being a scan of a straight contact print but i only have and use a HP...

The lens has arrived and a couple of small drops of lighter fluid and some exercise brought the shutter back to life. On inspection and looking through the ground glass it most certainly looks like a...

Very recently I succeeded in purchasing a Ilex Caltar 215mm f6.3 lens in an Acme No. 3 shutter at a rather cheap price ($81 USD) since the shutter does not function. It was one of those accidental...