What did you compose at Waters Edge?

[jnantz]

...

[csant]

Jim, Mark - thank you very much. I have a few contact prints of that one, and made a ~30x21cm print. The online picture is actually a scan from the negative.

jnanian - what a mysterious beauty…

[csant]

Mjøsa laske, a full moon evening - next morning it was heavily snowing…



Charten 5x7, Voigtländer Euryscop IV, paper negative.

(This is one of my first attempts at shooting paper negatives. I guess I need to learn to tame the bulging of the paper in the middle… Also, sensitivity of paper is significantly different than film - there's a full moon in this shot, mirrored in the water… Who'd have guessed that it would be *completely* gone from the shot! But I guess that's what you get when you shoot with blue-sensitive paper in blue light…)

[jnantz]

hi csant

thanks for the nice comment!

nice view of yours as well ( i like the composition ) ..
there are a few ways to fiddle around with paper to change
the way it is exposed ..
you can flash it ( as you would before you print on it ) ..
or use a yellowish filter ...
as it is being processed, just when the image is coming out, put it into
a water bath ... using USED/spent/tired/old developer helps control the contrast as well ..

oh the bulging paper in the middle ... trim a long edge a tiny bit!
paper is bigger than film

john

[csant]

John, thanks for those suggestions, they certainly make sense! I developed another sheet by placing it into a water bath as soon as the image was coming out, and it definetly helped - need to practice that better… The filter is a good suggestion. As for bulging - I am already using 13x18 holders for 5x7 sheet, it fits very well - but still, film reacts to air humidity much stronger than film, and seems to bulge nevertheless (that blurry part in the centre of the image is because of that, isn't it?)

[venchka]

A small patch of double stick tape centered on the paper? Perhaps rub some of the stick off of the tape so that doesn't harm the paper.

[Jim Michael]

Driftwood, Bandon Oregon
135mm Apo Sironar-S

[Vlad Steinberg]

Too well known place at Yellowstone Lake...Last week of September this year there were several fires in the Park,so the lake was covered with mist and smoke in the morning- quite magical view .Velvia 100,Sironar 135mm.

[ljsegil]

Des Plaines River bank, Canham 8x10, 210mm SSXL, Fuji Pro 160S, converted and cropped in PS. No masterpiece, but maybe someday I'll get this right.
Larry

[jim kitchen]

Dear Larry,

I see that you are putting that nice piece of glass to work...

Well done.

jim k