If the paper is over-sized and/or if one used a hair drier to dry the freshly applied platinum/palladium solution too soon, then one can have the situation where much of the pt/pd solution dried on...
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If the paper is over-sized and/or if one used a hair drier to dry the freshly applied platinum/palladium solution too soon, then one can have the situation where much of the pt/pd solution dried on...
A challenging composition! Excellent!
It was the view from the back deck where I had my morning tea and watched the swirlies. I was a month in Wales and Northern Scotland (May/June). Blessed with unusual good weather. Traveling with...
I spent a couple weeks in Bangor - my son was renting a house in sight of the Menai Bridge while going to Uni there. It was a good place to explore from. Anglesea is pretty, the bridge was fun to...
I owned a Rajah (spelling?), which was an Indian copy of a Deardorff Special (a 4x5/5x7 camera). Design was exact. Quality was 7.5 out 10 compared to the real thing...once a major light leak was...
The tool forms the user as much as the user forms with the tool. So it is an important choice, and much depends on the type/look of the images one would like to make. For example, movements allow for...
I was a member of an artist cooperative gallery for 20 years. Worked a couple afternoons a month at the gallery and a little monthly committee work. In exchange, my work was up on the wall, and...
How many loaded holders does one take on a multi-day road trip?
My answer -- all of them (about thirty 8x10, a dozen or so 5x7, and about eight 11x14). I prefer not to change film on the road and...
Generally 5 to 6 holders...4x5, 5x7, and 8x10. With 11x14, perhaps 3 holders. I often expose two negatives for each image and even still, 80% of the time I come back with unexposed film. The other...
I used a version of John's second method above, but for several years have been using Jobo Expert Drums (3006 and 3005) on a motor base. for my 5x7s (also 4x5 & 8x10). Quite nice. The drums have been...
Definitely -- it would eat a full day, but a great way to see some of the countryside from the train (2 hours each way). Once in Nikko, we walked, but busses can take people to the World Heritage...
I have also bleached a negative slightly to reduce the shadows, re-fixed, washed, and then selenium toned. Works well if the shadows are already fully exposed. None of this works very well with thin...
Very sweet looking show! March looks to be busy, so I doubt if I'll get up your way for t he show.
Good luck!
Followed your link to some of your great Lava Beds images -- love that place!
Yes. But then everything does.
If you want to get away from the city itself for a day, take the train(s) to Nikko for the day.
The free public observation room at the top of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (about...
So far, the huge numbers of heavily manipulated digital images/prints has led me to appreciate the qualities of a handmade print even more. Secondly, I am more interested in the qualities of light a...
Yes, and an International Travel-all in there for awhile.
And a burro, too (but no photos of AA up on a pack-top roof rack). Personally, I packed mules for ten years while doing trail work and...
By all accounts he was looking forward to the digital age, so he missed that boat, too. Instead, he drove his wood-sided land yacht off into the sunset.:cool:
I know! And people still listening to live music, too, when we have ear-buds and all that stuff. Unbelievable! :cool:
And obviously Ansel's work became much better when he started using the...
Hearing "under" and/or "over" used for exposure and/or development, I tend to think of someone making a mistake.
I tend not to use contrast controls when printing alt processes, so I have to get...
Perfect!
True, but if someone says on this forum they just want to make a negative that is 'good enough', they get criticized for not trying hard enough. It's a tough world. :cool:
That is what I aim...
Have another glass...I believe you got it backwards...
Taking a reading off the white tile has the meter thinking, "Wow, that gray tile has a lot of light coming off of it! We'd better close down...
I managed to spend three weeks in Scotland last spring without rain...even the Scots were amazed...Good Luck!!
One from the Isle of Skye, and one from a lunch break...
Thanks for the read! Very cool!
Great image!
I do not think a ballast is required for that sort of bulb. None is listed in the specs. Similar bulbs are used in Tota lights.
I use 750W self-balasted Mercury vapor lamps. (dichromate)
The tallest coastal Redwoods around here are up in the 370 to 380 foot range. Took me awhile to find one that I could see the whole tree!
This was with two 4x5 negatives with a 150mm...
I am in the direction the OP does not want to head to. The redwoods I hang around under are 300 to 350 miles north of San Fransisco.
Great video/print, Andrew!
I learned from a short article in ViewCamera magazine in the early 90s. A workshop back then would have helped a lot...nothing 'online' back then. Jim and I are looking...
This is Vaughn, not Vaughan -- we are two different members. I just got back from a month in Japan (with my Rolleicord, not LF).
I do recommend the Fuji W 250/6.7...a fine lens that I carry with...
Just got back from Japan -- flew out of Vancouver, WA. No problems either way for a hand check of my 120 film. In Japan, they saw my film out and took care of it before I even had to ask (a fellow...
I have used PyrocatHD with out-dated film. I found an increase in exposure times due to the staining of the ample base fog of the film (due to its aging), but otherwise made fine platinum and carbon...
Never worried about that. I opened the station at 6am, so arrived at 5:30. I was living behind the Bright Angel Lodge and walked along the rim to the gas station, in snow at first, with the sun...
I used the employee darkroom at the Grand Canyon National Park in 1977 where I was pumping gasoline for the summer -- it was part of their rec facilities. Followed the instructions of the packaging...
Tray development is a simple inexpensive set-up that gives great results. With practice, one can do many sheets at a time. I still use trays for my 11x14 negatives (one at a time). But one needs the...
Welcome!
I am in Kyoto at the present time -- traveling with my sons (one lives and works in Tokyo), and my Rolleicord. It would be great. to have my 4x5 or 5x7 with me, but that just did not fit...
We are offering our Carbon Printing workshop again in 2024. Jim Fitzgerald and I will be taking 6 students on a carbon-based adventure, April 17th to the 20th, 2024, working out of Ansel's old...
Drew mentioned RA4...I was taught that its color balance shifts with length of exposure, so for test strips, pick a time and change the aperture. I never made enough prints to get good at it, but a...
Perhaps this is old info -- some RC papers had developer incorporated into the emulsion, I believe.