Well, shoot, I didn't get out of here fast enough. It seems the misunderstandings have been compounded somehow by my own responses as well as by others'. My excerpt from a five-year old e-mail was an...
Type: Posts; User: Kaatharine Thayer; Keyword(s):
Well, shoot, I didn't get out of here fast enough. It seems the misunderstandings have been compounded somehow by my own responses as well as by others'. My excerpt from a five-year old e-mail was an...
P.S. Just to clarify something: it's not so much what the picture is of as the approach that is taken, that distinguishes the pictorial approach in my formulation. For example, I don't know if he...
A couple of general comments:
1. About the intelligentsia: I had some doubts about submitting this essay, for the very reason that the intelligentsia have no influence on my own work or my own...
"Aren't you tired of pictures of some arch or another in Arizona? Lakes and mountains? Field of flowers, wide angle? 'Pretty pictures'?"
I rather hesitate to jump into this discussion, since most...
Well sure, if all you want to do with your images is put them on the web, then (with all due respect, and you said it first) you are an idiot for lugging a view camera around. But if you want to make...
While it's true that an all-black print has no contrast, therefore technically could be called a "low contrast" print, I still say that the word "contrast" has no useful application in that situation...
I think this is an important issue, but my concern isn't that the word is used in different contexts; I'm more concerned about the fact that even if we stick to one context, say print contrast, we...
>Contrast to me means, rich blacks with detail as well as rich whites with >>detail and a myriad of grays in between.
Given that definition, is there any distinction in your mind between...
P.S. Longevity of dye-transfer prints compared to Ilfochrome: According to Wilhelm's data, dye-transfer prints are like Ilfochrome, in that they are long-term stable only if kept in the dark. When...
Sorry, I guess I didn't read Martin's whole post before responding to the question about whether anyone is doing these techniques today. Here's my answer to the other two questions he poses:
(1)...
I am a gum printer; I worked almost exclusively in tricolor in the 90s but I got bored with it and don't do many tricolors now. My website, which is mostly educational for gum printers but has two...
I'm late coming to this thread, but the Gail Gibson gallery in Seattle is still going AFAIK; here's the website:
http://www.ggibsongallery.com/ with current shows listed.
To Michael Kadillak's observation that keeping up with computers is "a money pit that has no possible end in sight" I'll add my own experience for confirmation:
The problem with being an "early...
"And neither of these notable and admirable examples have any problem at all telling a potential print buyer exactly what they are getting."
This is the crux of the issue, thanks Clay. My...
Huge names sell digital prints for big prices, but that fact has little impact in the markets where most of us are destined to sell our work. I can only speak to the art world that I am familiar...
Look. I was making digital prints when some of you were probably in grade school. This isn't about Neanderthals refusing to admit that the world is changing, it's simply about calling things by their...
Ok Katharine, I'll use your argument: an enlarger is a 'machine'. You must start calling your work 'silver gelatin enlarger prints'. Your implication that people that use the digital process...
"We usually just refer to the paper type or brand (gelatin silver, azo, Ilfochrome) or the chemical process (dye transfer, dye coupler) or whatever. We don't generally refer to the machine...
Why are threads on photo.net being transferred over here? Those who want to foment this controversy should keep it at photo.net where it belongs, in my opinion.
To conclude from this issue...
I jumped off when the forum moved to Photo.net and was afraid it would never be reconstituted, so glad to hear it's back in business. Thanks to all who made it possible.
This is an echo of Mark and Bob; both the Lenswork (Brooks Jensen I believe) and the David Vestal articles are excellent on the topic.
The site Chris cited crashed my computer, but before it did, I saw enough to be sure that while I agree with some of his points, I'm sure not in agreement with him about what constitutes "good...
Gelatin is often used to size paper for alternative photographic processes; most people who use it for this purpose subscribe to the idea that the gelatin must be hardened with formalin or...
I would advise strongly against using one of the cardboard mailers just recommended, if you are mailing valuable or important prints, and especially in larger sizes. I had a bad experience when the...
Lyle and Jimi's insinuations above are not only insulting, but inaccurate. Dan has only put out two editions of the book in ten years, so it could hardly be said that he is trying to scam the...
This is (one of the reasons) why I took up gum bichromate: proven color stability.
Again, it depends. I believe that some manufacturers use pigment-based inks which are claimed to last longer than the dye-based inks.
It depends some on the brand of printer and type of inks, but my dye- sub prints faded and color-shifted in less than 6 months when exposed to daylight (not direct sunlight but daylight filtered...
Someone used the word "willowy" the other day to describe the lack of sturdiness of the standards on an 8x10 Burke & James that I'm referring to. I was out work ing on a series of surf studies in a...
Sorry to nitpick a side comment, but since misunderstanding of Heisberg's Uncertainty Principle is responsible for a lot of the nonsense in the world, I feel compelled to say that Heisenberg...
Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much.
Here's how I see the scenario playing out: Richard wouldn't find me in the Colorado high country, because I photograph only what's close and...
I ditto Sandy's quartet of women doing interesting landscape work, plus Susan Derges.
I favor Stroebel's View Camera Basics. I also have the Simmons' book, but it didn't spell things out enough for me when I was really struggling to understand very basic things; Stroebel's...
Being a mere photographerette, I do know how to run a sewing machine, and sewed my own dark cloth from a lightweight, tightly woven wool twill. The weave is tight enough that one thickness is...
Bjorn, the English photographer you're thinking of is no doubt P.H. Emerson; however he didn't renounce his theories about focus and how the eye sees. What he renounced, after reading Hurter &...
Correction: I used the word "layer" when I meant "channel;" you don't use the three scans as layers but as channels in creating the RGB file.
Yes, behind the glass. The glass is between the film holder and you; therefore, the film holder is behind the glass. I think we've got a positional semantic problem here, not a difference of...
Well actually, the autochrome was made by a quite different process, involving no filters and only one black and white exposure. The color was created by a layer of colored starch grains either...
It should slide right in behind the ground glass just like a film holder; at least that's the way it works on my camera.