Postcard Exchange Round 59 Comments and Feedback

[AnselMortensen]

My first PCX, too.
I received Don's card...well done!
I prefer no envelope, but I'm not picky.

 

[jvo]

happily, and surprisingly, most seem to like their postcards "naked" - warts and all.

I guess, I'll have to see if I remember how to send a postcard sans envelope!!!!

 

[SJC1952]

This is also my first pcx. I'm working on prints over the next couple of days. Hopefully I'll get postcards posted sometime next week. I'm enjoying the process.

 

[Rob Skeoch]

Progress is being made, I've shot the photo and made the test print.... and today the paper arrived from my buddies at Ilford. So next is the darkroom time. Maybe I won't be three months late this go=around!

 

[AnselMortensen]

I received Pitotshock's card yesterday, a beautiful still life that would be right at home in Steiglitz's "Camera Work".

 

[Tel]

Ansel--your card just arrived, thenks. First across the finish line! (I love it.) Got to make a postcard wall, I think.

 

[henryyjjames]

I've gotten Don's and Ansel's cards! Both wonderful!

 

[Michael Howard]

Prints all done. Decided to make 3 different photos for this round, with a theme of "Old Stones", you'll get a random one of the 3 lol. I've gotta say, I am loving Ilford's Multigrade Portfolio paper. I also got a 4x6 easel on ebay from a guy that hand makes them, precisely to fit Ilford's 4x6 paper. It gives a perfect 1/8" border. Highly recommended.
4x6 Simpleasel

 

[Rrrgcy]

My first. And maybe last. Just mailed; I tried something odd which may not mail well - smaller FB print laid/glued atop the same image-printed RC postcard. The FB still curled the postcard. The mail machinery might strip the top card off… and I realized the ink didn’t take well to the RC card and bled smeared badly. Just a mess. So, I’ll send my recipients a plain xerox copy of the postcard in an envelope, as well.

 

[Don_ih]

So, I’ll send my recipients a plain xerox copy of the postcard in an envelope, as well.

I don't think that's necessary. Your cards will probably make it. Wait until some people report back.

 

[mfohl]

Postcards, in envelopes, sent this morning.

 

[Todd Barlow]

Hello PCX59:
All card’s posted today.
Best regards
Todd

 

[mfohl]

Three nice postcards received today! A really nice minimal landscape by AnselMortensen, "Strong Like Oak #2". A strong leaf-bare oak tree at the top of a hill. With a dark sky behind. Nice! Was this shot on infrared film? The sky is dark and the grass almost white. Then there's pitotshock's still life of two old chemical bottles. Who would have thought to arrange a gallon and a quart brown bottle in an artistic way. Great idea! And finally, Tel's "East 31st Street", a dramatically lit urban scene. Definitely harks back to early 20th century. Channeling Berenice Abbot on this one. Thanks folks, a great haul.

 

[Tel]

Channeling Berenice Abbot on this one. Thanks folks, a great haul.

I'll take it. Thanks!

 

[AnselMortensen]

Thanks, @mfohl! Yes, you are correct. Rollei Infrared 4x5, shot with a 29 filter, IIRC.

 

[Michael Howard]

My first. And maybe last. Just mailed; I tried something odd which may not mail well -

No worries, got your card. It was a little smeared on the back, but mostly readable. Curious as to why you pasted the photo on top, did you have trouble coloring? Either way, it is a nice photo and Carrie Mango is gorgeous. Also got the Oak from Ansel, makes me wish I'd tried some IR back when there was true IR film. Looks like you found a good compromise. Got yours too, @Tel . That luster paper was a perfect choice.
Mine are mailing tomorrow. 30 cards is a lot of work...but it's fun work! Next round I'm going to print 10-15 each printing session so I have a stock of cards ready to send lol

 

[Rrrgcy]

No worries, got your card. It was a little smeared on the back, but mostly readable. Curious as to why you pasted the photo on top, did you have trouble coloring? Either way, it is a nice photo and Carrie Mango is gorgeous.

Thank you for the compliment - I wanted an image on fiber Matte B&W which I could hand color the mangos w permanent water coloring, and thought to be a little artistic to paste it atop the larger RC papered postcard, w the same but enlarged image on it to mail. Accurate and fine coloring is a whole other art to develop which I’ve only tried my hand at here now. Next time I’ll be using a 10x loupe!

It’s live contemporaneous; these are presently being picked. Past two years someone stole all 40+ mangoes off the tree, the only one in the backyard. They had to have opened the gate to get in and used a ladder or picker to take every. single. fruit. off. the. tree. One day you’ve all that hope and joy and family focus on the ripening fruit, the next day - all of them gone. So I wanted to memorialize these from this year‘s bounty. This year I surrounded the tree w three large blatant yellow picketed No Trespass and CCTV Security signs, which worked. The tree space now looks like a Nevada radioactive test ground site. We were 50-50 they’d steal the fruit AND the signs this year.

Carrie Mangos are succulent, deeply rich, non fibrous and exquisitely sweet melt your mouth crave more delicious. Unbelievably so. Color is not an indication of ripeness (they can be yellow or deep green or striated), it’s when they begin to soften or fall.

No cards arrived here yet - are the exchanges between the folk to/from the List or is it all blind random receipt?

 

[SJC1952]

Hi PCX59. My postcards were posted off today. Stefan.

 

[BHuij]

Prints all done. Decided to make 3 different photos for this round, with a theme of "Old Stones", you'll get a random one of the 3 lol. I've gotta say, I am loving Ilford's Multigrade Portfolio paper. I also got a 4x6 easel on ebay from a guy that hand makes them, precisely to fit Ilford's 4x6 paper. It gives a perfect 1/8" border. Highly recommended.
4x6 Simpleasel

I designed and 3D printed a 4x6 easel as well that's very similar to the one you linked. Works on the same principle as the yellow speed-ez-els I use for most standard size prints.

My first batch of postcards has probably started arriving. I just printed 6 more yesterday before running out of RC paper. Today I'm hoping to snag another pack of paper, and ideally I can get the rest of my postcards made in one more darkroom session.

 

[Don_ih]

I made a 4x6 easel ages ago but it's too light. That was before I got the Focomat 1c I now have, with the easel that clamps to the baseboard. I have a postcard I printed years ago that I use to set the blades on the easel. Sometimes I mess up. I don't let it bother me.

 

[MattKing]

Those small Speed-Easels and items inspired by them sit really nicely on an inexpensive 8x10 two bladed easel, and the adjustable blades of those are great for keeping the smaller easels in place.

 

[AnselMortensen]

Those small Speed-Easels and items inspired by them sit really nicely on an inexpensive 8x10 two bladed easel, and the adjustable blades of those are great for keeping the smaller easels in place.

Genius idea.

 

[MattKing]

Those small Speed-Easels and items inspired by them sit really nicely on an inexpensive 8x10 two bladed easel, and the adjustable blades of those are great for keeping the smaller easels in place.

Genius idea.

Nope - luck while futzing in the darkroom

 

[Don_ih]

Double-sided tape would also work well.

 

[BHuij]

Yeah I've been using poster tack haha.