Alt & Lith Print Exchange #7 (ALPX-7) - Status and Updates

[RauschenOderKorn]

Dear photographers,

The magic has been done, and the assignments are out. Everybody should have a message from me.

Please check your own address again. Please wait a few days before you send anything. We need that time to correct address problems and other difficulties. If something is or seems to be wrong please PM me.

As this is not a blind print exchange, the "chain" is as follows:

bedrof - RauschenOderKorn - tezzasmall - fgorga - piu58 - gijsbert - bedrof


[This is for information only. Please keep in mind that nobody participating likes to receive a demotivational reminder or a PM saying "Where is my print?". If there is a problem, contact me. I will do my best to solve the problem.]

Our timeline:
Print and Send: June and July 2021
Rest and Relaxation: August and September 2021

I enjoyed very much seeing the exciting prints of the last round. If you don´t mind, please share your prints in this thread or in the gallery before sending them. Also, please give us a short heads up when you send or receive a print.

Have fun with ALPX-7!

 

[fgorga]

Just returned from the post office. My package to Uwe (piu58) is on its way!

I have sent one salted-paper print (on 8x10 inch paper) and one smaller hand-colored inkjet print.

Please do let me know when it arrives. I fret too much over the reliability of the post office.

 

[piu58]

I sent my prints out. Enjoy!

 

[gijsbert]

I received 2 lith prints from Uwe. The prints are on old Agfa papers, very nice creamy colors and tonality, of building details in Leipzig. Reminds me of my trip to Leipzig 2 years ago, beautiful city!
Are those RC papers? I didn't know they could lith too.
Many thanks Uwe!

 

[piu58]

Today I received two prints from Frank Gorga. In both digital processes are involved, but manual techniques dominate the result. Real pieces od art, thank you.

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@gijsbert: > Are those RC papers? I didn't know they could lith too.

Yes, there are (were) PE papers. It only depends on the emulsion, not on the base. I have old stock Agfa papers which liths. And I have papers labeled Maco. Because Maco does not cook emulsions I assume they are from Foma.

Actually, Foma does not have lithable PE papers under production. The only one I know of is Fomattone MG classic.

 

[fgorga]

I am glad to hear that my prints arrived safely.

Here are scans of the two prints I sent to Uwe...

The first, titled “Walnut Tree, Center Cemetery (Antrim, NH)”, is a salted paper print. The exposure was made in March 2021 using a digital camera. The print was made on Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag paper using a digital negative in June 2021. The image is about 6x7.5 inches on an 8x10 inch sheet.

The second, titled “Barn (Chichester, NH)” is a hand-colored inkjet print. The exposure was made in February 2020 by photographing the ground glass of a camera obscura with a digital camera. The print was made in November 2020 using an Epson P800 printer on Artistico Hot Press paper and hand-colored using Prismacolor Premier pencils. The penciling was smoothed/blended using a 1:1 mixture of vegetable oil and turpentine. The image is about 4.5 inches square on a 5x7 inch sheet.

 

[gijsbert]

Sent out my prints last Friday!

 

[bedrof]

Finally I made a lith print that can meet the exchange requirements (size, overall quality etc), it wants some minor retouching efforts. But I see that it doesn't show really vivid lith qualities.
Do you think I should send it like this or it's better to get more classic lith look?

 

[bedrof]

Sent my package two days ago.
Print from my previous message had to be discarded due to some scratches taken after flattening unfortunately.

 

[bedrof]

Comrades, do you have any info about @RauschenOderKorn?
I see tracking info saying that my ALPX package to him was returned to Russia after failed attempt to deliver it.

 

[RauschenOderKorn]

Sorry that I disappeared for the last months. As you might have noticed, I am delayed on my prints, and generally I´ve been tooooooo busy. (same goes for the BPX, I´m delayed there, too)
I will finish my assignement before christmas (hopefully) and send the prints to tezzasmall.

Effectively, we are on a break with the ALPX. If enough people are interested, I think we could start a new round in the next year?

 

[RauschenOderKorn]

Comrades, do you have any info about @RauschenOderKorn?
I see tracking info saying that my ALPX package to him was returned to Russia after failed attempt to deliver it.

товарищ, that is strange. I am here living in the same place as always ?!?!?!?
Can you send me the tracking data via pm, I´ll see what I can find out.

 

[fgorga]

Sorry that I disappeared for the last months. As you might have noticed, I am delayed on my prints, and generally I´ve been tooooooo busy. (same goes for the BPX, I´m delayed there, too)
I will finish my assignement before christmas (hopefully) and send the prints to tezzasmall.

Effectively, we are on a break with the ALPX. If enough people are interested, I think we could start a new round in the next year?

No worries from me.

I look forward to another round whenever it is organized.

Hopefully @tezzasmall will also eventually come through with a print as well.

 

[RauschenOderKorn]

Status:

Sent: fgorga, piu58, gijsbert, bedrof (4 / 6)
Received: gijsbert, piu58 (2 / 6)

If you have sent or received a print and not posted here yet, can you please update your status?

 

[bedrof]

My bad.
I received two beautiful lith prints from @gijsbert.
And that is a real pleasure to hold an image of one of those famous American slit canyons (I've seen many times them called "slit" though Google suggests it is more correct to say "slot"). The second print is none that abstract as the first, but shows some nice lith qualities as well as an interesting subject matter.
Thank you!
I definitely shall try Fomatone paper in lith dev some day.

My prints sent again to @RauschenOderKorn after some travel back and forth.

 

[gijsbert]

@bedrof Glad you like them, sounds like using an Antelope Canyon negative was a good choice!
Happy to hear the prints finally arrived, I was starting to worry they didn't make it.
Enjoy!

 

[RauschenOderKorn]

So I have finally been able to send out my contribution.

Status:

Sent: fgorga, piu58, gijsbert, bedrof, RauschenOderKorn (5 / 6)
Received: gijsbert, piu58, bedrof, RauschenOderKorn (4 / 6)

If you have sent or received a print and not posted here yet, can you please update your status?

 

[RauschenOderKorn]

Looking at my own plans and previous engagements, I´d start a new round of ALPX in March 2022 - aligned with the BPX. Is that ok with you?

The timeline then would be

Signup: March 2022
Print and Send: April and Mai 2022
Rest and Relaxation: June and July 2022

if you agree.

 

[tezzasmall]

Apologies, but I thought that I had acknowledged the two prints from RauschenOderKorn a good while ago now, so I do it now:

One is a lith print of a panoramic view of a mine, in East Germany, near the polish border. It's an interesting print to me as it was developed in Moersch's Easylith, and it shows a totally different effect to what I get when I use it with Fomatone MG Classic 132 FB paper.

The second print is very interesting to look at and is described in the letter with it, a 'Chromoskedasic Sabbatier' print, which I had to look up. It seems that a number of people are using this process and it really produces some lovely and unusual pictures from b/w prints into colourful ones:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Chromoskedasic+Sabbatier&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

https://www.freestylephoto.biz/chromoskedasic-sabatier

As for my offering, I have finally managed to produce something to send, which I hope to send out this week to the recipient.

Apologies once more.

Terry S
UK

P.S. Is there a gallery to put our work in, so that we can all view each others?

 

[tezzasmall]

And my offering is finally in the post today.

Terry S

 

[fgorga]

Today, I received three lith prints and a nice letter with a detailed description of the process used, from Terry (@tezzasmall ).

Two are views of the London Tower Bridge with exposures made using IR film about 20 years ago. The third print is an image of an egg on a plate which, to my eye, is an intriguing semi-abstract.

Having never tried my hand at lith printing, I am no expert, but I like the prints very much.

Thanks!

 

[tezzasmall]

Today, I received three lith prints and a nice letter with a detailed description of the process used, from Terry (@tezzasmall ).

Having never tried my hand at lith printing, I am no expert, but I like the prints very much.

Thanks!

Hi Frank,

A bit delayed, but it's good to know that the prints arrived OK and that you like the prints.

Be warned though, once you start on the lith adventure, it will very quickly draw you in - a bit like going up to the LF, I reckon.

@ Anyone: Is there a place that others have put their efforts on display for the rest of us to view, or should we attach them to a message on this set of posts?

Terry S