are you staying on course and if not, do you care ?

VinceInMT · Feb 16, 2020

I have a long list of ideas to do in photography and get back to them from my many other hobbies when I can. After I retired I enrolled at the local university and am pursuing a BFA. I've taken a couple of photography courses and was able to bring some of my projects together there. The biggest one was a printmaking class where I got back into a silk screening project I'd started many decades ago. I make tone separations form my B&W negatives, make screen stencils from them, and then reassemble the image, in colors, by screen printing. Lots of little steps along the way.

jtk · Feb 17, 2020

VinceInMT said:
I have a long list of ideas to do in photography and get back to them from my many other hobbies when I can. After I retired I enrolled at the local university and am pursuing a BFA. I've taken a couple of photography courses and was able to bring some of my projects together there. The biggest one was a printmaking class where I got back into a silk screening project I'd started many decades ago. I make tone separations form my B&W negatives, make screen stencils from them, and then reassemble the image, in colors, by screen printing. Lots of little steps along the way.

Photo silkscreen has tremendous potential... a portrait subject, cc 1975, was a photo silkscreen artist. The local newspaper, like all newspapers back then, had a large process camera and inexpensively sold separations to her.

AND BTW, in the 80s there were studios/shops with stainless steel screens that were able to make 16X20 photo silkscreen prints that were better for some applications than conventional color photo methods, including dye transfer. That was important for clients who sometimes needed photo prints of products & labels with the precise, literal Pantone colors they needed per their copyrights. .

jtk · Feb 17, 2020

Alan Edward Klein said:
Before planning to put all those pictures up on the walls, you ought to ask your wife what she thinks. .

there are infinitely more women than there are convenient walls.... just fyi.

Alan Edward Klein · Feb 17, 2020

Count your blessings, Paul. You're a lucky guy.

jtk · Feb 17, 2020

jnantz said:
great responses ! its always fun to hear how people work, and inspiration to keep chugging along..

hey ariston ...

naaah i don't think you are off course at all ! the way i see things is that it's an idea, it might not work out, adjust and rework and try again, and it might work a little bit better and then continue until it works the way one is satisfied... that sets the stage for maybe more photographs in the same vein, because in one's trials and figuring outs one see other things that might relate, if not through the same photographic mode maybe they relate in another way. OR it gives the experience to be able to solve the same ( or related ) problem down the road ... IDK im a tinkerer at heart so i tinker, and if i can't repeat it, that's OK... singular images sounds like a great project to me fog is good, and really hard to photograph and print !
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jtk
sounds like fun stuff you are doing, i wouldn't say money grubbing panos, but i'd say panos "on spec" .. its nice to get compensation for one's efforts once in a while

Jnantz, thanks. fwiw I don't say "on spec" because I find that I "cause" sales and other success.. Following my old fashioned sales process, my pano will sell...if I've done a proper job technically.

removed account4 · Feb 17, 2020

jtk said:
Jnantz, thanks. fwiw I don't say "on spec" because I find that I "cause" sales and other success.. Following my old fashioned sales process, my pano will sell...if I've done a proper job technically.

i always thought on spec more or less meant made with the intent to sell, made without a buyer / not pre-sold (commissioned).
interesting way to think about the proactive approach
good luck with the project !

jtk · Feb 19, 2020

jnantz said:
i always thought on spec more or less meant made with the intent to sell, made without a buyer / not pre-sold (commissioned).
interesting way to think about the proactive approach
good luck with the project !

Running into trouble with the pano. The 60" original is dated 1906 ...it spent much of its life yellowing and fading on a gas station wall. I rescued and tried to clean it, which didn't help it. I've photographed it in 5 frames (files)..

Have started to process the files (tried blue filtration but of course red was more effective...plus contrast. It's looking less photographic than I want, more graphic...which would work better on canvas banner. But I hope somebody can print on sepia canvas...if not it'll call for a lot more PS than I have at the moment. Labor is the name of this game...

winger · Feb 19, 2020

I don't feel like I've actually completed a project, yet, so I'm not entirely qualified to answer. But I have various groups of images that could become projects with a few more. I tend to just shoot what's interesting and then realize later that it could turn into a project. Sometimes that only takes one or two images. But I'm not very good at finishing things so far. For me, I think the only guard rails would be those keeping me shooting what interests me rather than getting off into stuff I don't like.

Cholentpot · Feb 19, 2020

Nope.

I'm all over the place. I'm relatively new to photography, not even a full decade under my belt. I have the benefit of being excited by anything new to me or unknown or not tried out.

In just the past two months I've ping-ponged from 16mm film to 120, back to 110 film, a half dozen rolls of 35mm, modified a 120 camera to take LF lenses, bounced back to 110 because I got a Pentax Auto and then a pile of new cameras and equipment fell into my lap giving me a new avenue to explore. I might start messing around with super8 or double 8 this summer.

Then again, if my goal is to make photographs I'm straight on that path.

jtk · Mar 22, 2020

Cholentpot said:
Nope.

I'm all over the place. I'm relatively new to photography, not even a full decade under my belt. I have the benefit of being excited by anything new to me or unknown or not tried out.

In just the past two months I've ping-ponged from 16mm film to 120, back to 110 film, a half dozen rolls of 35mm, modified a 120 camera to take LF lenses, bounced back to 110 because I got a Pentax Auto and then a pile of new cameras and equipment fell into my lap giving me a new avenue to explore. I might start messing around with super8 or double 8 this summer.

Then again, if my goal is to make photographs I'm straight on that path.

Moving ahead, there's no potential if one sees "photography" as cameras.

Here's potential for a young person. I don't understand what they're talking about but at least they're in Arizona and they're all about connections with crazy stuff.

https://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/...rship/master-of-arts?utm_source=hyperallergic

Alan Edward Klein · Mar 22, 2020

jtk said:
Moving ahead, there's no potential if one sees "photography" as cameras.

Here's potential for a young person. I don't understand what they're talking about but at least they're in Arizona and they're all about connections with crazy stuff.

https://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/...rship/master-of-arts?utm_source=hyperallergic

Sounds like a great course if you like playing around. I suppose you can get a job in a museum when you're done. The explanation is a lot of gobbledygook. But i suppose that good experience for writing resumes for artists trying to show how important they are.

Cholentpot · Mar 22, 2020

jtk said:
Moving ahead, there's no potential if one sees "photography" as cameras.

Here's potential for a young person. I don't understand what they're talking about but at least they're in Arizona and they're all about connections with crazy stuff.

https://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/...rship/master-of-arts?utm_source=hyperallergic

Amazing reading my comments from just a few months ago and how things have changed in a matter of weeks.

jtk · Mar 22, 2020

Alan Edward Klein said:
Sounds like a great course if you like playing around. I suppose you can get a job in a museum when you're done. The explanation is a lot of gobbledygook. But i suppose that good experience for writing resumes for artists trying to show how important they are.

Many of those students will join video (film) production teams: creative streaming work is one of the biggest employment sectors in the Southwest . Netflix has two big production studios in New Mexico and Disney is rumored to struggle for talent for their own teams and studio here. And of course there's Meow Wolf, which is wildly successful on related wave lengths. Impossible to explain but on the way to becoming one of the biggest creative/entertainment venues in seven states (Google it)

The future is too bright, perhaps.

I'm guessing you've heard of Netflix?

removed account4 · Mar 22, 2020

jtk said:
I'm guessing you've heard of Netflix?

Netflix ? is that on the inter webs ?

Alan Edward Klein · Mar 22, 2020

jtk said:
Many of those students will join video (film) production teams: creative streaming work is one of the biggest employment sectors in the Southwest . Netflix has two big production studios in New Mexico and Disney is rumored to struggle for talent for their own teams and studio here. And of course there's Meow Wolf, which is wildly successful on related wave lengths. Impossible to explain but on the way to becoming one of the biggest creative/entertainment venues in seven states (Google it)

The future is too bright, perhaps.

I'm guessing you've heard of Netflix?

You raise a good point. Often students become interns and help out in businesses during the summer while they're still going to school. It may give them an entree when they're done with school. So I stand corrected.

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