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[sly]

Gum prints from pinhole negatives.
Titan 8x10, HP5+, ABC pyro, printed on Fabriano Artistico.



Dawn, Esquimalt Lagoon, 1



Dawn, Esquimalt Lagoon, 2

[Andrew O'Neill]

Nice work, sly.

[soeren]

Wauv, love to have those on my wall. Especially the first.

[Tin Can]

Very nice image #1, it shows what pinhole can really do. No other lens could do that.

Your city's name eluded me, so I Googled, and I found, "Bathtub Racing Capital of the World".

Sounds like a fun place!

[Ramiro Elena]

Beautiful choice of colors sly. Makes me want to do gum printing again after 15 years...

[sly]

Thanks everyone. I'm quite happy with these. They were taken outside Victoria, at a B&B we stayed in for our 15th anniversary.
Nanaimo's great in many ways - lots of green spaces, access to mountains and the ocean. Big enough to be called a city, but small enough to get out of easily. There are 2 traffic lights in town where you might have to wait through 2 light changes during rush hour. I don't usually go down to the water for the bathtub races, but the silly boat race the week before is a hoot!

[ndg]

Gum prints from pinhole negatives.
Titan 8x10, HP5+, ABC pyro, printed on Fabriano Artistico.



Dawn, Esquimalt Lagoon, 1



Dawn, Esquimalt Lagoon, 2

Sly, the images are really nice. How many layers? For gum, I prefer to scan the original negatives and print digital negatives for the actual printing process. If one does more than one layer, I find gum printing very destructive of negatives - the registration pinholes and tape residue are not kind to negatives.

[sly]

Sly, the images are really nice. How many layers? For gum, I prefer to scan the original negatives and print digital negatives for the actual printing process. If one does more than one layer, I find gum printing very destructive of negatives - the registration pinholes and tape residue are not kind to negatives.

These were 3 gum layers. I use the 8x10 negatives. Haven't wrecked one yet. (Knock on wood.) I mucked about for awhile with digital negatives, but what a pain! Computer problems, printer problems, ink problems, and the worst of all, USER problems. The only thing that has made me weep with rage, in the decades since I got over my ex's perfidy, has been the computer. I scan stuff to post, but leave digital processing to people who want to do it. I don't.

[Harley Goldman]

Gum prints from pinhole negatives.
Titan 8x10, HP5+, ABC pyro, printed on Fabriano Artistico.



Dawn, Esquimalt Lagoon, 1



Dawn, Esquimalt Lagoon, 2

These turned out extremely well. I especially like the first one. Beautiful.

[Vaughn]

These were 3 gum layers. I use the 8x10 negatives. Haven't wrecked one yet. (Knock on wood.) I mucked about for awhile with digital negatives,...but leave digital processing to people who want to do it. I don't.

Wonderful images, Sly! And I tend to agree with your position on digital. So many things to explore and to wrap one's mind around -- I just do not have the time nor energy for diving too deep into digital. More power to those who do.