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Tuco, your image #492 caught my attention, I like the combination of wheels which adds a little complexity. I’m also impressed by your truing stand and run-out gauge, you clearly have at least one...

HP5+ (120 & 4x5), Pyrocat-HD, TF-4 fixer
Ilford Classic FB & RC (RC for contact sheets and 8x10 work prints only, FB for 11x14 prints), Ilford Multigrade Print Developer, Ilfostop, TF-4

Since we have left photography behind for Wagner, I have seen three complete Ring Cycles, I am clearly a Wagnerian (I also enjoy Meistersinger and the Flying Dutchman). One of the cycles was in...

I think the key question is the one at the beginning of Merg's thread, "who is your audience?" If you are making photographs to sell or for a commercial purpose, your objective is by definition...

I think my favorite is the one with the barbed wire, I guess like Robert Adams’s pictures I like evidence that humans have been there.

But my question goes in an entirely different direction:...

Sony Digital FF, Leica and Nikon 35mm, Rollei 6x6, Canham 4x5 (and unused for years, a 6x9 roll film slide-in holder). Ilford HP5+ for all formats.

I also print on Ilford VCFB Classic, and my technique is the one Bernice posted above, let the prints dry without toning, evaluate, choose the ones to tone, and then I tone a batch say 4 or 5 at...

Since I've been doing this for a long time I have a bunch of studio strobes which I can use with soft boxes or umbrellas. My favorite is a compact DynaLite M500 pack with two heads, I also have a...

John, You do a wonderful job with chrome and shiny metal on all of your motorcycle engines! Any hints for the rest of us, or is it “simply” being spot on with your exposures and development?

Ken, Drew, JMO, and everyone who responded: Thanks, and success! I have installed Photoshop Elements 2021 on my Mac (which solves the 64-bit issue) and VueScan which solves my Epson 4990 Photo...

I probably see actual prints primarily in museum or gallery shows. I don’t pay much attention to the format, since what gets my attention is the expression on the subject’s face. By that I mean a...

Dennis, I really like your fence shot, the white crosses really “pop,” you got the lighting just right. Of course, every time I see an image like this (or make one myself) I think of Paul Strand’s...

Afraid I'm back again. Having spoken with Epson, it seems that I did successfully download their "ICA Scanner Driver v5.8.9 for Image Capture" which (a) they say is Apple software, not Epson's, and...

Unfortunately it is not in downloads (all that I have in downloads is the .dmg file which is what I opened to get the installer, etc.) and nowhere else either (I searched for "Epson"). The good news...

Greg, Drew, thanks for responding. Unfortunately the supposedly downloaded and installed new software is not in any Epson applications folder, all the programs under Epson show "last updated x/2007"...

I've upgraded my Mac OS to Catalina 10.15.7 from the older 32-bit system, and just tried to download the 64-bit driver for my old but functional 4990 scanner. The download and installation seemed to...

For Alan Klein: Beautiful image, I'm glad to see that you have become familiar with using your Chamonix! Definitely an image to hang on your wall!

I’m sure I am stating the obvious, but why don’t you re-mark the dials with times adjusted for the 20% difference, so 1 minute would be 1:12 etc. what you need for printing is consistency, not timing...

I think my response was driven in part by the OP's request for a [single] go-to lens. I actually have, for my 4x5, 80, 120, 150, 180, 210, and 300mm lenses, and use them as seems appropriate for the...

Canham DLC^2 4x5, Rodenstock 150 lens. You have to understand that all view cameras are compromises between weight, rigidity, precision, flexibility in lens choice, and ease of set-up. The Canham...

Bob will give a more complete response, but the built-in rangefinder on the classic is similar to your Leica (I.e. two windows and a split image) and the camera has a cam to bring the images together...

Wonderful book! I have to look at it again, there are images which remind me of the work of a number of your father's contemporaries, some of whom probably influenced him, and perhaps some influenced...

Clickma: I have concluded that as long as a portrait is basically competent (and yours is much more than competent, your lighting and posing is excellent) what really makes or breaks a portrait is...

Vaughn, I thought that what I wrote was very similar to what you posted in #5, only in my words. Where are we differing?

This auction makes me miss the annual AIPAD show in NYC which made many of the same images accessible (and purchasable if you had the funds) to the public. Unfortunately that is gone until Covid is...

If we back up from having fun with grammar and Deloreans, I think that most of us "visualize" simply from experience. The majority of us spot meter scenes, place high or low values, and know that if...

Deardorffuser, what I love about your images 9 and 21 is not your technical competence, which is obvious in all your work, but the ease and natural expression in your subjects, the mother and...

Came to this thread late, but it seems to concentrate on Avedon's American West and similarly minimalist portraits. But he was a fashion photographer for much of his career (rather like Annie...

You can find a lot of her images by searching with Google, surprisingly she doesn't seem to have a website (unless I missed it). The relevant NYTimes quote is " 'Her contribution to the medium and...

I dry mount onto 2-ply museum board, and cut mats from 4-ply museum board, leaving about a 1/4" around 3 sides, and a 1/2" at the bottom to allow for a signature and title in pencil on the 2-ply...

Paul, your #6551 is a standout, I can stare at it for quite a while. I love images where I have to try and work out either what is going on, or how it was done, and your combination of what I think...

An old rotatrim rotary cutter. I simply measured from the cutting edge and put down a strip of masking tape as a guide. In the dark it is easy to position the film (or printing paper) by putting the...

The Catlabs darkroom timer looks very much like a modern copy of the ZoneVI compensating timer, one of which has lived in my darkroom for something like 40 years. The ZoneVI is a count-up timer, and...

Hope this is not political, I don’t think it is (unless possibly you live in CA). Big article in NYTimes on whether insurance companies have to continue insuring homes in fire zones. One side of...

I would keep it just as it is, I like photographs that make you look twice, and maybe think about them more. As I said, IMHO it is a very nice image.

Matt, that is a very nice image, and it brings back memories of the years I lived in London. Is it the very wide lens and perspective corrections that make the Palace appear 2-dimensional? It made me...

Doremus, Thanks so much, exactly what I needed! I had already played a little in PS just to see the effect of dodging and burning, but those are always more difficult to do in the analog world...

I think the question originally posed combines at least two issues: first the argument that arose simultaneously with the invention of photography, "is photography an art or a craft?" and secondly,...

This is a question about the use of color filters for B&W photography. I have a scene consisting of graffiti on a grey concrete bridge abutment surrounded by greenery. I have made a photograph...

I would guess that 99% of us develop our B&W 4x5 at home, and there is no downside, especially if you are used to developing other formats. I have a darkroom, so I tray develop, which I find easy...