Hello

[Justin Maramba]

Haven't introduced myself here yet so...

I'm Justin.

Right now, I am a high school senior in Lorton, Virginia.

I began photography when I got one of those old Polaroids as a present for Christmas. However, I was unable to do any more photography until High School where I finally was able to do photography. As time passed, I got into alternative processes such as toning, then split toning, palette kits and Halochrome.

Then, one day, in October 2008, I stumbled upon lith printing. It was a process that no one in my school would touch, not even my teacher and peers in the class above me. I worked with the process and worked with it, making other people believe I was insane trying to get such a difficult process to work. However, I still needed to do more research on the subject to be better at it, and so after reading Tim Rudman's books and Wolfgang Moersch's works, I came here to find out more about lith printing and alternative processes in general.

Lith printing gives an entirely new look to a picture and is so rewarding when you finally get the print to work.

Paper: Arista.EDU Ultra FB VC
Developer: Fotospeed LD 20

 

[thebanana]

Hi Justin,

Welcome from the sunny and freezing Canadian prairies!

 

[papagene]

Justin - welcome from western Massachusetts.

gene

 

[Chazzy]

Welcome from northern Indiana.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Welcome from Washington DC! There's a bunch of us mostly old fogies here in the area that get together and shoot, and play with various alt processes (cyanotype, platinum/palladium, wet-plate collodion, Azo, among others). Say hi and let us know if you'd be interested in getting together.

 

[BWGirl]

Welcome to APUG, Justin! You'll be please to know that you will get tons of advice & encourage ment here from the resident "lith people"! Good to have you on board!

 

[mooseontheloose]

Welcome Justin -- there are a lot of lith printers here on APUG so you're in good company.

 

[SuzanneR]

Welcome... it's always refreshing to find young people embracing traditional photographic processes.

 

[Jeff Kubach]

Hello Justin weclome to APUG. There is a lith printing group here, check it out.

Jeff

 

[nickandre]

Hi.

 

[Christopher Walrath]

All that and just a senior in high school. Welcome to the group. You've already got a head start.

 

[Anscojohn]

Welcome, man, from another one of the old fogies in your area.