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[Jay DeFehr]

Hi Jonathan,

I jokingly refer to this as "Studio Lighting", but it is in fact a couple of fluorescent lamps, one in a 12" reflector, and another clamped to my desk on one of those swiveling/articulating arms. To get shutter speeds reasonably short, the lights were just out of frame. The background is a bed sheet hung from a curtain rod.


I'm pretty sure Efke and Adox are one and the same. Incidentally, I had no trouble with exposure or processing, but handling the super-thin, curly film that happens to also be very delicate, resulted in scratches, despite my being extra careful. I don't need that kind of aggravation.

Thank you for your kind comments.

[austin granger]

I hope she didn't have to get her nice white socks muddy just for your shot. But, yeah, that about sums up the rain lately. Nice shot. The white really stands out.

She was already standing there before I made the picture. Actually, the picture was her idea-she's got good instincts that way!

I dig your cabin shots. A friend of mine's wife's family has a cabin the men go to occasionally and it all seems very familiar.

[jcoldslabs]

I jokingly refer to this as "Studio Lighting", but it is in fact a couple of fluorescent lamps, one in a 12" reflector, and another clamped to my desk on one of those swiveling/articulating arms. To get shutter speeds reasonably short, the lights were just out of frame. The background is a bed sheet hung from a curtain rod.

I'm pretty sure Efke and Adox are one and the same. Incidentally, I had no trouble with exposure or processing, but handling the super-thin, curly film that happens to also be very delicate, resulted in scratches, despite my being extra careful. I don't need that kind of aggravation.

Jay,

Thanks for sharing your lighting methods. That makes me feel better and helps inspire me to try something similar. I am gearing up, rather slowly I should say, to try wet plate at some point, and to that end I put together a DIY array of 16 CFL bulbs as a light source. I plan to test it out on some old aerial duplicating film I have that is EI 1.5. That should give me an idea of how well the lighting works at very slow speeds.

As for the Adox film curling, that would be a major pain. With the Efke sheets in my JOBO tank there is little chance of the wet negatives getting scratched. I was unhappy with the tonality of the Efke film when I followed all the guidelines. Now that I have gone my own way things are much better.

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Austin,

Fun shot. I agree with Tuco: the rain is finally here. We got off easy this winter. Maybe spring will kick our collective Pacific northwest a**es.

Jonathan

[Corran]

So a few pages ago there was some images made with TMZ. Leland mentioned he had an extra brick in the fridge and was kind enough to sell it to me. I am anxiously awaiting using it for some low-light band / event photography but I did shoot a roll for fun last Friday night. Here are three shots. I used a Nikon F4 and set the ISO to 1600, and then developed the roll in XTOL 1:1 for the recommended 3200 ISO time. Worked very well but I might cut down development a minute next time (just a tad dense). Anyway, here they are, just some fun snapshots:

[tuco]

HoHoo What a shot!!
you're a real storyteller ;-)

I dig your cabin shots. A friend of mine's wife's family has a cabin the men go to occasionally and it all seems very familiar.

Thanks. Rustic cabins really do seem to be a guy thing. The adaptation is from Clint Eastwood's movie Dirty Harry and I take it I don't need to mention that. But just in case...

[Chris Strobel]

Messing around with the little camera in the front yard.

[jcoldslabs]

Beautiful, Chris. Pretty elegant for just "messing around".

Jonathan

[Chris Strobel]

Beautiful, Chris. Pretty elegant for just "messing around".

Jonathan

Thanks! Well compared to schleping the 8x10 around, it feels like messing around

[austin granger]

Change, Beaverton

Van, Columbia River Gorge


http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[Chris Strobel]

Always enjoy your work Austin