New from Salt Lake City!

[Kimberly Anderson]

Hey folks,

Just a brief introduction...

I'm a commercial photographer who has recently re-entered graduate school to get my MFA in photography. I'm attending Utah State University studying under Craig Law. I got my BA from USU in '95 and am very excited to get back to my fine arts roots.

I've been working for the past 10 years in Portland, Oregon and Las Vegas, Nevada shooting various commercial jobs for some very interesting clients...some big, some small.

Getting tired of the commercial rat-race and am looking forward to rediscovering my inner-artist (whatever that is...).

I'm planning my thesis on doing very large platinum/palladium prints, carbon prints and photogravures using the Nikon D2x as the image generating instrument. Printing with Pictorico OHP onto my Epson 4000 printer. The plan is to make very large negs, 12x20 and create a portfolio of images both digitally generated and also generating 12x20 traditional negatives and display them together as a unified body of work. We'll see where this takes me.

Anyway, I see some names that are familiar...I was on the alt.photo mailing list for a while and got to know a few that I see here a bit.

Looking forward to learning and hopefully contributing as I work my way through the next few years.

To learn more about me, feel free to visit my website...www.tawayama.com

Thanks!

 

[roteague]

Michael, welcome from Hawaii.

If you are interested in using traditional methods and techniques (that is film, fiber paper, etc) then you will get a lot out of this site. Forget about discussions of the D2x or the Epson - here you are going to hear real pt/pd using traditional methods, you will hear about all types of film and film developers. What you won't hear about is digital in any form. This is our refuge away from the "digital" image making world.

 

[Kimberly Anderson]

Oh I'm all about the non-traditional processes. If you read my introduction you will have seen that I am planning on producing a body of work that are platinum/palladium, carbon and photogravure.

I have also produced work of this type in the past, have hand-coated my own papers, burned my own plates and produced my own carbon tissues, so I'm no newcomer to the alternative photographic processes.

I have also attended an APIS conference in Santa Fe. So...I'm not worried about getting my 'digital fix' here. In fact I'm looking forward to NOT talking about digital and getting back in the thick of it with others who have experience to share with similar projects.

Thanks for the welcome!

 

[MenacingTourist]

Another USU grad!

I got my degree from USU in 96, but mine was with Jon Anderson's advertising design program. I had some buddies in the photo program and even took a 101 class from Chris Dunker. It's possible that we crossed paths. I was even co-president of the Student Art Guild...fun times.

Great to see another Utah photographer around here but too bad you're all the way up in Logan.

Good luck with your graduate work

Alan Peck.

 

[roteague]

No worries Michael. I'm a color landscape photographer myself, printing on a Chromira, although I shoot exclusively Velvia. I just wanted to give you a heads ups - some here are very anti-digital and very vocal about it.

 

[Kimberly Anderson]

Alan,

I'm living in Riverton right now and driving to Logan twice a week. Fun times! We should get together.

I actually went to your site and looked at your work, I didn't see any photography there! I'd love to see some.

Robert, if people are so insecure about their own photography as to come down hard on another version of their own craft, then that is their own business. Won't affect me in the least. I appreciate an honest vocal opinion as long as it is constructive.

I can already see I'll be hanging out in the 'Grey Area' and the non-silver forum mostly anyway. Thanks for the heads-up!

 

[MenacingTourist]

My site is pretty much what I've been doing on the side for the past 10 years. Illustration and kooky paintings

I started messing around with photography just over a year ago and things took a turn for the worse last November when I attended a large format workshop in Zions. I think I'm past the worst of the stupid "aquisition" stage and have been able to shoot without thinking too much about the gear. I just got back from three days on the south slope of the Uintas with my fly rod and 5x7. Negs will be souped soon...

 

[Kimberly Anderson]

Sweet! What did you shoot? B&W? I was way into 4x5 and 8x10 B&W work for many years. Had my own Jobo and large-format processing drums and made many beautiful negatives. Started doing Pyro a bit and then my photography went a different direction.

I do miss my Saunders enlarger and my darkroom I built up in Portland. I'm taking my Jobo, some large easels, some 4x5 lenses and random left-over B&W darkroom stuff up to school tomorrow to see if Craig can use any of it. Now that Photo Services is shut down, there's no local E-6 processing. He's thinking that with my Jobo machine the students can learn how to process their own film and not have to drive to Salt Lake to get it run.

Anyway, I can see that we should at least meet for lunch sometime and talk shop, USU, and other stuff. Hehe.

E-mail me anytime and I'll send you my home phone. sladephoto@yahoo.com