Alt Print Exchange Round 8, October 2008

[FredW]

Silly me, should have gone with 3 groups of five. Don't know what I was thinking. OK, we will just go with them.

 

[Anke Drewitz]

Silly me, should have gone with 3 groups of five. Don't know what I was thinking. OK, we will just go with them.

For me it wouldn't be a problem to make a print more, so in my opinion you could join the people of group one to the other groups.

Anke

 

[Jeff Bannow]

For me it wouldn't be a problem to make a print more, so in my opinion you could join the people of group one to the other groups.

Anke

That would be fine with me too.

 

[querlicht]

The idea of Anke is fine. I think it's better if you make groups of five.

Martin

 

[Akki14]

I don't think anyone in group 2 has sent out their addresses yet so we could have an extra person in our group too.

 

[gr82bart]

Hey Fred,

Why don't we just move:

• Fred - FredW (E) to Group 2
• Anupam - Anupam Basu (I) to Group 3
• Martin - querlicht (I) to Group 4

And make it easy on everyone?

Regards, Art.

 

[FredW]

OK, looking at my spreadsheet, I have now rearranged the groupings as follows. I tried to group things so that everybody will receive a print from somebody new. Please PM the members of your group. Thank you for participating.

Group 1

Monty - Zebra (E)
Lillian - sly (I)
Rich - Rich UllSmith (I)
Heather - Akki14 (I)
Martin - querlicht (I)

Group 2

Phill - philldresser (I)
Cara - Cara (I)
Art - gr82bart (B)
Jeff - jbannow (B)
Anupam - Anupam Basu (I)

Group 3

Carl - CarlRadford (I)
Anke - Anke Drewitz (I)
Mario - mario (I)
Diane - colrehogan (I)
Fred - FredW (E)

 

[sly]

I just want some clarification. Two of the folks who have sent me their addresses have referred to lith prints. I like lith, so I have no objection to recieving more - it so wonderfully variable. I took part in the lith print exchange earlier this year, as well as an alt print exchange. I've kinda got lith categorised in my head as a silver process, while alt encompasses historical, polaroid transfer, non-silver and such odds and ends.
Is there a "rule" about this? Is lith included or excluded from Alt?

 

[Anupam Basu]

Prints shipped for group 3.

 

[querlicht]

I sent all my prints for group 1 this morning.

 

[querlicht]

For me, lith is a classical silver process. A very nice process, but not a alternative-process. For me it belongs rather in the Groupe Print Exchange.
But this is only my personal opinion.

 

[Akki14]

I sent all my prints for group 1 this morning.

You have? Did you already have Monty's address or something :confused: Haven't gotten an address yet from him.

 

[querlicht]

Akki I sent you a PM with Mont's adress.

 

[Zebra]

Sorry Heather,

I hit reply all and must of lost you somehow. I apologize. Thank you Martin for forwarding it on. I feel a need to give a disclaimer; I am going to try very hard to print this weekend and on the 21st to get everyone's prints out. If I miss that opportunity it will be mid November before I get them out. I am gone from the 22nd of October until November 29th --28 days. I have found it very hard to print in hotel rooms across the nation. Damn hotels don't cary UV light sources--they're selfish that way.

I really will try to get them out this week. thanks in advance,

Monty

 

[Anupam Basu]

You can stick a printing frame on the window on your flight. I really want to know how the UV light at 30,000 feet works for alt. prints

 

[Zebra]

Anupam,

That's a great idea. However with the restrictions on liquids the print would have to be about 1 inch by 1 inch. For a 20 x 24 shooter that would be a cardinal sin! By the way, I'm making your print for sure this weekend from my oversight from the last go round.

best,

Monty

 

[Akki14]

I'm still sort of deciding what to print :confused: I got my paper cut down yesterday and was all ready to mask it out then had a moment of "hang on, do I really want to print this?" and have been debating about what to print ever since.

 

[querlicht]

Oh Heather

What problem you have . Do you have a lot of very good photographs on the gallery. I'm sure you will find the right photo )

Have a nice and sunny day - but ... in London a sunny day? )

Martin

 

[FredW]

I just want some clarification. Two of the folks who have sent me their addresses have referred to lith prints. I like lith, so I have no objection to recieving more - it so wonderfully variable. I took part in the lith print exchange earlier this year, as well as an alt print exchange. I've kinda got lith categorised in my head as a silver process, while alt encompasses historical, polaroid transfer, non-silver and such odds and ends.
Is there a "rule" about this? Is lith included or excluded from Alt?

For myself, I do not think of Lith as an alternative process. I think of them as any hand coated process. But in my search, the alternative photography site has lith included.

So shall we put it to a vote. Do you want to consider a lith print and alternative process for the purposes of this exchange?

Participants, PM your vote to me. Otherwise, I will have to exercise my executive privilege.

 

[FredW]

Group 3 (Mario, Diane, Carl, and Anke) I have sent your prints off today. I would expect them to take between 10-14 days to arrive. Enjoy.

 

[FredW]

Just received the prints from Anupam, a nice cyanotype of a water spigot, and I think a palladium of a chair in a library.
Anupam, for the cyanotype, what paper are you using. Is it the classical cyanotype, or Mike Ware's modern formula?
I have been having issues with papers not giving me the depth of tones I would like to see.

 

[Anupam Basu]

It's the classic formula but developed in vinegar instead of water. The paper was Canson Montval 300gsm sized in gelatin. The other print was a Van Dyke, toned in selenium.

 

[Anke Drewitz]

For myself, I do not think of Lith as an alternative process. I think of them as any hand coated process.

Like Fred I would prefer to get hand coated prints in an alternative print exchange.

Anke

 

[gr82bart]

So shall we put it to a vote. Do you want to consider a lith print and alternative process for the purposes of this exchange?

I'm not so picky when it comes to these exchanges. To me anything that is not gelatin silver or chromgenic is alternative - hand coated paper to Polaroid transfers to glass plates collodions to liquidlight on anything to liths to hand painted prints. I enjoy the variety and am not so dogmatic about what I get in return. Well, as long as I get something! I have hundreds of prints from these exchanges and enjoy all of them.

Regards, Art.

 

[colrehogan]

Since the people have committed to doing prints for this exchange and if this is the only method that they employ for printing, I don't have a problem with this for this round. However, maybe it should be stated up front for future rounds what methods are (or are not) considered to be alt-processes.