Long time lurker from the Pacific Northwest saying hello!

[ChrisArslain]

Hi All! I just realized I never formally introduced myself to this community. My name is Chris, and I am currently working with mostly 35mm and 6x7 formats in color and black and white around the Salish Sea in Washington. I feel like I have been using this resource off and on forever(maybe by a different name before the days of social media). Lately, I’ve been coming back to this forum on the daily, and hopefully, I can get more involved where I can (and honestly ask for a lot of help). Right now, I am working on some personal street projects and some color landscapes/abstractions. Lately, my go-to has been EMA Pyrocat with Ilford films and XX, and C-41 with the AGO processor. I mostly scan and inkjet, but just got a nice free Beseler 23C, so will be printing my new series on fiber soon! Also, I just had an Imacon scan from my Pentax 67 printed 40X50 on a 400 dpi (so they say) C-print from Whitewall, and it came out very sharp and awesome! Well, as you can see, I'm looking for people to talk to about modern analog techniques and results. Thank you for maintaining a place on the internet where algorithmic influence has not taken over organic groupthink.

 

[MattKing]

Welcome to Photrio, from not too far north of you.

 

[mshchem]

Welcome!!!

 

[ChrisArslain]

Thanks Matt and mshchem!

 

[koraks]

Welcome a board @ChrisArslain !
Congrats on that print; the photo of course cannot quite convey the impression the actual artifact is bound to make, but it sure looks very nice indeed!

Thank you for maintaining a place on the internet where algorithmic influence has not taken over organic groupthink.

Hehe, I like how you formulated that!

 

[ChrisArslain]

Ha! Thanks @koraks ,glad to be here! Yeah it's scary getting a big pricey lab print, but they make relatively cheap watermarked proof prints for at home color correction. Their photoshop print proof color profile was spot on too.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Welcome to Photrio!

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Welcome to Photrio, Chris. I'm just slightly north of Matt, although both in the Lower Mainland.

 

[koraks]

Yeah it's scary getting a big pricey lab print, but they make relatively cheap watermarked proof prints for at home color correction.

Yeah, C-print at this point is pretty much the most affordable way to make photographic prints. Since the technology is also very mature, you get pretty darn good quality for a surprisingly small price. I just checked; a 100x120cm print (40-50") costs € 75-100 when done on Fuji DPII or Maxima - so top quality papers. And indeed, the 400dpi Whitewall claimed is likely not exaggerated. You need a pretty good loupe to tell such a print apart from a (really, really good) optical enlargement.

 

[ChrisArslain]

Yeah it is definitely is a lot sharper than the traditional 150 dpi digital c-prints. The print is in a faculty show that is closed for the summer but I will get some better resolution shots of the print and share my lab experience and print set up on Photrio in the future.

 

[ChrisArslain]

Thanks @Andrew O'Neill ...I lurk your Youtube too. Go PNW Canada

 

[Model71]

Welcome!

 

[retina_restoration]

Greetings from Corvallis, Oregon!

 

[radialMelt]

Welcome Chris! Would love to hear your thoughts on the AGO processor.

 

[ChrisArslain]

I absolutely love it. Takes a couple goes to get the timing and temps just right. I decant Kodak C-41 ABC chems into seperate tiny bottles that will mix up a perfect 500ml and I do three good rolls with the AGO, I add 15 seconds and reuse these chems again on expired film or push another 3 rolls with it. I'm gonna try 3 runs on 500 ml of C-41 soon as the chems have held up great so far for two runs of 3 rolls. So for the 5L kit I get 10 of these 500ml liter runs and the chems are fresh each time.
I also programmed it to do EMA B&W stand development which has worked out just as good as doing it by hand. I can walk away from it for as long as the development takes, because it spins the rolls up for 20 seconds 2 times during the stand. I plan on making videos of these things in the future with it.

 

[MMfoto]

Hi neighbor! Pyrocat HD is also my go to developer for 120 and larger.

 

[radialMelt]

I absolutely love it. Takes a couple goes to get the timing and temps just right. I decant Kodak C-41 ABC chems into seperate tiny bottles that will mix up a perfect 500ml and I do three good rolls with the AGO, I add 15 seconds and reuse these chems again on expired film or push another 3 rolls with it. I'm gonna try 3 runs on 500 ml of C-41 soon as the chems have held up great so far for two runs of 3 rolls. So for the 5L kit I get 10 of these 500ml liter runs and the chems are fresh each time.
I also programmed it to do EMA B&W stand development which has worked out just as good as doing it by hand. I can walk away from it for as long as the development takes, because it spins the rolls up for 20 seconds 2 times during the stand. I plan on making videos of these things in the future with it.

Thanks a lot for the report

 

[aconbere]

from Seattle!

 

[ChrisArslain]

SO many PNW peeps! Love it! Hello back to all!

 

[Sirius Glass]

Chris, lurk no more.