1. If you can, get a copy of Tim Rudman's books on lith printing. The first is more instructive and informative for someone just learning the process.
2. In my experience, Foma is the most...
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1. If you can, get a copy of Tim Rudman's books on lith printing. The first is more instructive and informative for someone just learning the process.
2. In my experience, Foma is the most...
You might also check into buying bulk chemicals and mixing your own pyro-based developers. You would avoid the cost of shipping the water in which the stock solution is mixed halfway across the...
The idealistic side of me has often thought of walking across America, but in my case just making 35mm snapshots as I go.
The practical side of me wonders how this guy is going to make his idea...
You will need a note from your mother. Mothers are sensitive about these sorts of things.
For me, anyway, it is better if I get my head OUT of the game.
Xpresso.
Good points have been made so far by you, Bob, and Jac. One other point I would like to contribute is the editing process. Film photographers do varying degrees of editing before deciding to commit a...
I would rather view original photographs as printed by, or with the participation of, the photographer. Whether he/she is famous, or name recognized, or relatively unknown to me, is of little...
I feel privileged to use a camera that was made to such a high standard more than 40 years ago and which still works and looks so good.
My contribution to photographic theory is to employ Darwin's theory of natural selection. Many images attract my eye, some keep my interest long enough to be committed to film. All film is developed...
Ryan, please don't take this as a criticism or put-down, it is not intended as such. But by reading your posts it sounds like you are pretty new and inexperienced to film exposure and development. My...
A long time ago I used stainless steel hangars and tanks to develop my film. I did hang some film up in their hangars but I did not like the results: negatives sometimes stuck to the hangar when dry...
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Bought a box last summer. Just figured out how to expose and filter it. Then summer ended. As did the film. So it goes.
Is the back removeable? If so you might be able to swap the back for a two-sided one. I shoot Linhof 4x5's but do not consider myself an expert on the brand. That said, I am not aware that some older...
I have SSS...stainless steel syndrome. I don't know what it is, but stainless steel just turns me on. It is a good thing that women don't come in stainless steel or my beloved would be in trouble...
Several years ago I dried prints face down on screens. Some...naturally ones that I had printed for a time-sensitive project...showed screen marks. I'm not sure which paper, maybe Foma. My...
I keep gallon jugs of LPD at 3 different dilutions for cold, neutral, and warm. At the end of each session I top off each jug with fresh developer at roughly the same dilution to add some fresh...
A just-slightly off-topic question, I recently became Treasurer of a cooperative art gallery. I am stunned at the ridiculously high charges our credit card processor is charging. I wonder if these...
Sorry I have to ask, but what is IQ?
I find that my efficiency and creativity in the darkroom begins waning after a couple of hours. I begin to make little mistakes, and get inordinately annoyed by them. It is best for me to get into...
For a long time I was a devotee of Yankee tanks. Then I got an assignment that required me to do some "portraits" of area mountains, which by necessity included skies. As I shot and developed my film...
Is this a one-on-one photo review that you are planning for? If so, I would think that 11x14 prints would be large enough. Then all you need to do is decide how large of a border you think looks...
For me, the important idea is "resonance," not "sympathy," although the two are somewhat related. I seldom (if ever) complete the process of setting up my camera, finding a composition, and deciding...
I read somewhere, sometime, something to the effect of" "never take up photography. It will ruin your life." I think the quote was attributed to Hurter or Driffeld, but I am unable to find it again....
I use 4x5" Ilford FP4+ film, usually I buy it in 100 sheet boxes. The box is triple, that is, there is the top and bottom that can be seen, then another "top" inside the bottom, to make a light trap...
There are as many answers to your question as their are photographers. Being responsible for every step of the process from creating the composition to matting and framing the finished print is one...
I have no color film developing experience so my comments apply only to that medium. The advice for tray (or Tupperware) developing is a good starting point. It is the least expensive equipment to...
So now you get to spend another day with a gorgeous model. Wish my bad luck was this good!
But seriously, E. Von Hough's advice is well heeded. Photography is part science and part art. The...
Having spent 25 years in a position of authority, I contend that crossing the occasional line is the only benefit of being in charge of anything.
My oath would include three things:
1. "Every picture that I make will be the absolute best that I can do, and I will offer no excuses." While a student in community college photography classes I...
Christopher: you don't say how you are developing (open tray, tank, taco, etc.,) or whether you are developing sheet or roll film, but be forewarned and alert: I have developed 4x5 film semi-stand...
Rather than ask what "blue" means to others, I think it would be more valuable for you to ask yourself that question, then spend some creative time thinking of answers.
The first association that...
I used 2 cfl bulbs in mine. Each bulb throws a hot spot that I wish I could even out, but it works fine to evaluate 1 4x5 negative at a time.
I hope that I haven't already posted this image here. 57 pages is a lot to wade through!
Linhof Tech V; Efke IR in Obsidian Aqua; MGWT in LPD.
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What bothered me most about Kirk's original post was the phrase, "get away with." When I decide to make a photograph, or whether to try a new material or process, my objective is to make the best...
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oops, wrong wars.
Sorry!
Mozilla have decided that those icons can present a security risk and therefore banned them from Firefox. The icon itself is still there in other browsers.
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Same with me. Airplane mode, brightness all the way down, red display on MDC. My only wish is for a setting to allow timer cycles to automatically advance without hitting the Start key with wet...
Is there not also a fee for photographing certain places in Paris? Or am I misinformed, or just confused.
I guess that the Taos Pueblo is privately owned, and therefore the owner can do what they...
Having moved to another house in the last year I feel your pain, David. And your joy, Vick. I wonder if film photographers move less often than other people just for the reason of not having a...