In Praise of 5x7... Post'em !

[mdm]

My very personal opinion would favour a matte surface, and gravure does that much better than carbon ever will. However if a little lustre from gelatine sized watercolour paper is your vision then carbon should do a nice job of the subtlety.

Oh, I see, not that carbon. I like those too. Good luck.

[Ken Lee]

My very personal opinion would favour a matte surface, and gravure does that much better than carbon ever will. However if a little lustre from gelatine sized watercolour paper is your vision then carbon should do a nice job of the subtlety.

Oh, I see, not that carbon. I like those too. Good luck.

Yes - carbon pigment prints are mild warm-toned pigment on cotton matte paper. They look quite a bit like Pt/Pd prints, but because the paper is smoother, they are capable of very fine detail.

[mdm]

I know Ken, I make them too. Eboni 6 in a somewhat tempramental and now dead 1430 and Piezography Carbon K7 in another printer. I am learning photopolymer gravure and making my own inks. Like Carbon transfer you have infinite control over pigment tone, maybe less resolution than inkjet, but way more contrast than inkjet can offer. Black is like a black hole, death personified. Making ink from scratch, a teaspoon of carbon black, bit of umber or ochre, blue, purple, magenta, mixing it with plate oil, seeing the tone on different paper, those lovely plate marks, infatuation. Like seeing a carbon transfer with relief and gelatine glint for the first time, just easier to do. The girl next door, fat bottomed girl vs uptown girl. Why not have them all.

[Alessandro Bocchi]

Brescia - (BS) Italy - A series of portrait during the event PhotoTrace 2013. This is Beppe Bolchi.

- Camera: LUPO Aldina II 13x18
- Lens: Voigtlander Heliar 210 1:4.5 in Compound shutter
- Exposure: 1 second betwen f 4.5 and f 6.3
- Film: HARMAN FB Direct Positive Paper - 3 ASA - size 5x7"
- Developer: ILFORD PQ UNIVERSAL 1+9 - 2 minutes at 20° C
- Stop: ILFORD ILFO STOP
- Fixer: ILFORD RAPID FIXER
- Lightmeter: Gossen Lunasix 3 reading the incident light.
- Lightning: 2 Continuous Light.

- Scanner: EPSON V700 and EPSON Scan 3.81
- Software: Adobe Photoshop CS4

[Ken Lee]

Massachusetts, 2013
Sinar P, 300mm Fujinon A
5x7 HP5+, Pyrocat HD

[Ken Lee]

R.S. Massachusetts, 2013
Kodak 2D, 10 3/4 inch Red Dot Artar
5x7 HP5+, Pyrocat HD

[gene LaFord]

A couple of nice ones Ken!

[blueribbontea]

This was the Rookery, an art deco hotel torn down in a misplaced sense of urban renewal and now a surface parking lot. Shot with an Eastman 2D 8X10 with the 5X7 reducing back, and using My dad's Kodak anastigmat 130mm 6.3 from his Vigilant 616 camera, hence the edge effects. I couldn't afford front rise using that lens. 5X7 has long been my favorite format.

[austin granger]

Cornfield in November, Sauvie Island, Oregon


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

[Ken Lee]

Phone, 2013
Sinar P, 250mm Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar
5x7 HP5+, Pyrocat HD