BLIND PRINT EXCHANGE ROUND 18 (BPX18) - STATUS AND UPDATES

TheToadMen

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Hereby I like to preregister for the next BPX, please.

I'm marked as "received & sent", so I can't wait for the next round. Especially with that great image I received from Ken as a motivation and a personal standard to achieve. I'm already thinking and planning my next print. Keywords for now are: large format, historical printing process (alt-photo), probably pinhole, ...
I bought a great lens from Reinhold Schable that covers up to 24x30 inch negatives. It's a 790mm f:5.4 Wollaston Meniscus lens. Suitable for a "diffused pictorial lanscape style".
I'm planning on building me a simple "point & shoot" camera body for this lens to make some very large (paper) negatives for contact printing with an old process like gum, bromoil, salt or carbon printing. Or use the direct positive paper from Ilford in camera. Should be great for the exchange. But I haven't started this project yet and I do have a time consuming job. If it doesn't get together for the next BPX-19, it should be doable for the BPX-20 at least (I hope).


BTW: Christopher, if you need any help, let me know. I thought of setting up a separate European BPX (due to high shipping costs cross-Atlantic) but I'm not sure if there are enough participants in Europe. And it might also drain participants from this worldwide BPX.
So - for now - I'll put the idea in the fridge ...

Christopher Walrath said:
Then you are fairly out and I am fairly in. I will wait for the signup thread in January. Carry on.
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Ken Nadvornick

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For those who may be interested, (there was a url link here which no longer exists) for this BPX round...

Ken
 
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Katie said:
patiently waiting for my print to come...
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Katie,

Please see my post number 81. It is a very beautiful print you sent to me! Actually, I have a question about your toning technique. It us very unusual to bleach the print without subsequent toning. I like the look very much and would love to use it myself with an appropriate subject. I am however a bit concerned about the print longevity. From your experience, are the prints treated in such a way reasonably stable? Do I need to put some extra precaution when storing/displaying your print?

Eugene.

EDIT: Oh, I just realized that you are referring to the print you are supposed to receive. Pardon my slowness...
 

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For all of you who missed it: the signup thread for BPX round 19 is opened by Christopher.
See: (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
 

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ataim said:
OOPS, I forgot to reply, sent mine last week.
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A few other things you forgot too


An envelope turned up today containing three prints of a watermill somewhere. I'm guessing these prints are for this round of the BPX as no further information was included.
 

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Sorry I didn't answer before, Eugene! I wouldn't think that any other precautions should be taken with it - it was washed and dried and flattened; then bleached (lightly - just so much as to what you see it now - not completely) and then blue-toned and washed again and dried. I intentionally print dark and high contrast, so that when I slowly bleach back, the image becomes warm; then I split tone it with the blue toner. I stumbled on this method playing in the darkroom with some really dark prints...
 
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Cut that off Paul! The rumor that Santa Claus is not real is just that - a rumor. Nobody has ever managed to prove it!
Yeah, that's it.

Thank you for the updates. Here's the latest list as far as I have it:
SENT:
1 Paul (ataim)
2 Katie (Katie)
3 Mark (Mark_S)
4 Matt (MattKing)
5 Uwe (piu58)

RECEIVED:
1 Birger (BirgerA)
2 Edward (Ed Bray)
3 Greg (sage)
4 Menno (spijker)

NEITHER SENT NOR RECEIVED:
1 Prasanna (analoguey)

SENT AND RECEIVED (DONE!!!!!):
1 Andrej (andreios)
2 Eugene (anikin) Image
3 Nicolas (Dali)
4 John (JohnRichard)
5 Ken (Ken Nadvornick) (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
6 Kevin (Kevin Kehler)
7 Bob (megzdad81)
8 Marco (mesantacruz)
9 Mike (mjs)
10 Paul (paul_c5x4) (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
11 Reed (semi-ambivalent)
12 Stone (StoneNYC) (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
13 Bert (TheToadMen) (there was a url link here which no longer exists) (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
 

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I put my picture in the mail today. It should make it to its destination before the end of the month & year. I'll upload a scan when the receiver confirms that it has arrived.

Merry Christmas!

Menno
 

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spijker said:
I put my picture in the mail today. It should make it to its destination before the end of the month & year. I'll upload a scan when the receiver confirms that it has arrived.

Merry Christmas!

Menno
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Got it today. very nice tonallaty and composition.

You can put Menno on the nice list now
 
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ataim said:
You can put Menno on the nice list now
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I most certainly will! Here it is:

SENT:
1 Katie (Katie)
2 Mark (Mark_S)
3 Matt (MattKing)
4 Uwe (piu58)

RECEIVED:
1 Birger (BirgerA)
2 Edward (Ed Bray)
3 Greg (sage)

NEITHER SENT NOR RECEIVED:
1 Prasanna (analoguey)

SENT AND RECEIVED (DONE!!!!!):
1 Andrej (andreios)
2 Eugene (anikin) Image
3 Paul (ataim)
4 Nicolas (Dali)
5 John (JohnRichard)
6 Ken (Ken Nadvornick) (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
7 Kevin (Kevin Kehler)
8 Bob (megzdad81)
9 Marco (mesantacruz)
10 Mike (mjs)
11 Paul (paul_c5x4) (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
12 Reed (semi-ambivalent)
13 Menno (spijker)
14 Stone (StoneNYC) (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
15 Bert (TheToadMen) (there was a url link here which no longer exists) (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
 

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I finally sent mine today.
 

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BirgerA said:
I finally sent mine today.
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And happily, I received it.

A very nice black and white floral - always difficult to do, but wonderfully achieved.

And as my wife noted - very well packed!

Thanks Birger.

Put me in the "Received" column.
 
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Thank you Mark and Birger! Here is the updated list:

SENT:
1 Katie (Katie)
2 Mark (Mark_S)
3 Uwe (piu58)

RECEIVED:
1 Edward (Ed Bray)
2 Greg (sage)

NEITHER SENT NOR RECEIVED:
1 Prasanna (analoguey)

SENT AND RECEIVED (DONE!!!!!):
1 Andrej (andreios)
2 Eugene (anikin) Image
3 Paul (ataim)
4 Birger (BirgerA)
5 Nicolas (Dali)
6 John (JohnRichard)
7 Ken (Ken Nadvornick) (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
8 Kevin (Kevin Kehler)
9 Matt (MattKing)
10 Bob (megzdad81)
11 Marco (mesantacruz)
12 Mike (mjs)
13 Paul (paul_c5x4) (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
14 Reed (semi-ambivalent)
15 Menno (spijker) (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
16 Stone (StoneNYC) (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
17 Bert (TheToadMen) (there was a url link here which no longer exists) (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
 

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Hey Eugene - who is Mark?

Matt

 
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