Platinum Printing

[JohnnyV]

>Or was that Paul Strand?

Paul Strand! Good to see you know your photography history Mike Troxell!

[Christopher Nisperos]

..what's a "plug-in"? Does this have anything to do with hair implants?

[paulr]

"You know, like the one about the "expert" in 35 mm being confused about a GG image being upside down."

It's interesting that someone else mentioned this. I just bought a large format camera on ebay and my groundglass image is upside down too! For a while I considered keeping the camera, but finally decided that I don't want to make upside down photographs. Sadly, the guy who sold it to me isn't answering my emails.

should I contact ebay?

ps .. with that plugin, is it possible to make upside down platinum prints, or am i just screwed?

[Mark_3632]

You're screwed.

It is not possible to make an upside down platinum print. I am sure, if you ask around and study it further you will see that to make an upside down platinum print would mean you have to expose it backward. Clearly it would be futile to expose an upside down negative backward and then manipulate it in photoshop. Maybe you should just re list the camera on Ebay. Make sure you mention the defect. The next buyer would want to know about the ubside down and backward image on the GG.

[Mark Sawyer]

Boy, are you guys lucky I'm here. If you'll send me your upside-down prints and a self-addressed stamped envelope for return, along with $5 cash, I'll convert your upside-down prints to rightside-up. And for a limited time, I'll convert rightside-up platinum prints to upside-down for the same low price. This may be of special interest to anyone planning a show in Australia.

[Jorge Gasteazoro]

Mark S, since you are so good at this turning around bussiness, maybe you can help me. I took this picture but the person unfortunatelly is behind a tree. Do you think you could turn around the negative and print the other side?........

[Mark Sawyer]

Actually, Jorge, the trick is to print through the back side of the paper.

Reminds me of an argument I once had with a student who swore he could correct for focusing too far away in the camera by focusing the enlarger too close...

[Jorge Gasteazoro]

Yeah well, I was asked this when I did a short stint at a camera store when I got laid off....the one other memorable one was:

I dropped this roll of film, do you think the pictures are going to come out blurry now?

[Dan Smith]

"I dropped this roll of film, do you think the pictures are going to come out blurry now?" Jorge, didn't you tell them it doesn't affect sharpness too much but does throw the horizon line off?

[Jorge Gasteazoro]

LOL....Beleive me Dan the temptation was there to really screw with them, but in the end I thought being nice would be better for the camera store and the owner, who was a friend.