Postcard Exchange: Round 9 - Comments and Results

BirgerA · Mar 12, 2007

I got my arm back

Hello all

My arm has grown back together and I've been in the darkroom again. Postcards will be going out either tomorrow or Wednesday.

regards

Birger A.

kraker · Mar 20, 2007

Hej Birger,

BirgerA said:
Hello all

My arm has grown back together and I've been in the darkroom again. Postcards will be going out either tomorrow or Wednesday.

regards

Birger A.

Yes, received yours yesterday. Wow, what a nice surprise. Nice postcard. Just curious about this 'gadget' you were playing around with, the 3-in-1 tent / background / diffusor; do you have some more information about it?

Thanks!

BirgerA · Mar 20, 2007

kraker said:
Hej Birger,

Yes, received yours yesterday. Wow, what a nice surprise. Nice postcard. Just curious about this 'gadget' you were playing around with, the 3-in-1 tent / background / diffusor; do you have some more information about it?

Thanks!

Hello

Glad you liked it. The gadget is a Hama product, called a mini studio: http://www.hama.de/portal/articleId...2599?picURL=/bilder/00006/abb/00006087abb.jpg

I put in a white cardboard as background, and used a single flashgun outside the box to light it. I just got it, and will do more testing with different lights.

regards

Birger A.

Tom Kershaw · Mar 21, 2007

Birger,

Received your card yesterday. It looks like you're getting some good results. Do you have the technical details for the shot?

Tom.

gr82bart · Mar 21, 2007

It's like this round just keeps on going! Great.

Regards, Art.

BirgerA · Mar 21, 2007

Tom Kershaw said:
Birger,

Received your card yesterday. It looks like you're getting some good results. Do you have the technical details for the shot?

Tom.

Thanks Tom

The shot was done with a Canon EOS 3 with a 12 mm extension tube and a 28-105 mm Sigma Lens on 105 mm. I used APX 100 and developed in Rodinal 1+25 for 8 mins. The lighting was done with the above mentioned Ministudio from Hama and a Canon EZ-430 Speedlite mounted above and to the side. I believe I had an f-stop of 11 and 1/60 second, but I'm terrible at keeping notes.

Printed on Ilford MGIV RC portfolio glossy (postcard) and developed in Neutol NE 1+7 for 60 seconds.

Far to often I say that I'm not that interested in the technicalities, but then I keep making the same mistakes over and over because I'm sloppy on taking notes in controlled situations like this.

Regards
Birger A.

Buster6X6 · Mar 21, 2007

BirgerA said:
Thanks Tom

The shot was done with a Canon EOS 3 with a 12 mm extension tube and a 28-105 mm Sigma Lens on 105 mm. I used APX 100 and developed in Rodinal 1+25 for 8 mins. The lighting was done with the above mentioned Ministudio from Hama and a Canon EZ-430 Speedlite mounted above and to the side. I believe I had an f-stop of 11 and 1/60 second, but I'm terrible at keeping notes.

Printed on Ilford MGIV RC portfolio glossy (postcard) and developed in Neutol NE 1+7 for 60 seconds.

Far to often I say that I'm not that interested in the technicalities, but then I keep making the same mistakes over and over because I'm sloppy on taking notes in controlled situations like this.

Regards
Birger A.

Thanks for your belated card. I hope you are feeling better? I really like the tent you were using to make this image. It gives non directional light which is very nice in certain situations. Very nice ,me like. See you in next round.

Greg

BWKate · Mar 22, 2007

Received BirgerA: postcard today. It turned out rather nice. It sounds like a great device to work with for small still lifes.
Thanks for the card!

I received 28 postcards out of 31! That was more than I expected. A Big Thank you to everyone for their efforts. Fabulous round!

gr82bart · Mar 22, 2007

Well this round just never ends! I just got a postcard from the one armed printer too. Thanks BirgerA!

Regards, Art.

PepMiro · Mar 24, 2007

What a surprise! I've just received postcard from Birger.
I find it excellent in both aspects: technical and artistic. Congratullations for this great work!

HowardDvorin · Mar 24, 2007

Two lovley tulips made their way to the USA. Thanks, BirgerA, for a nice postcard.

HowardDvorin

BWKate · Mar 25, 2007

Big Surprise!
I received another postcard from someone in Santa Ana, California. At least it was sent from there judging from the postmark. There was no signature but I'm assumining it's from Eric Maquiling because of the website having the word maquiling in it? It's a beautiful image of school children going to school in the Philippines on the back of a motorcycle with a roof/cover over it. Well done and nicely printed too! Thank you very much.

Pete H · Mar 27, 2007

Thanks, Birger, for the tulip postcard, and I'm glad to see that your arm is better!. That lighting is really beautiful.

It has just arrived today - presumably it took longer to cross Oslo than it did to get to the US & Canada, judging from other posts. (Today I also received a priority letter posted 11 days ago in Oslo). I'm not impressed by the local post office's efficiency :confused:

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