I learned to split print with the 00 and 5. I assume that way gives the greatest range the paper can deliver. Haven't tried with the 0 instead, but now I use an LED head with green/blue anyway.
I learned to split print with the 00 and 5. I assume that way gives the greatest range the paper can deliver. Haven't tried with the 0 instead, but now I use an LED head with green/blue anyway.Just realized that some people use the 00 and some just the 0...is there a reason for one or the other? I can't imagine there's much difference.
I learned to split print with the 00 and 5. I assume that way gives the greatest range the paper can deliver. Haven't tried with the 0 instead, but now I use an LED head with green/blue anyway.
Looking up, it's a featureless cloudy sky...looking down, you have a tens of thousands of square miles soft box overhead
It's a matter of creative survival. I live pretty close to Ketchikan, which makes Seattle looks darn near arid.ha!I like your attitude!
I'm vaguely aware of the reference, but haven't watched the movie...the Photrio U education continues!If necessary, I leave it up to you to explain "Spinal Tap" references to Daniela
I've seen it and I agree with you: her videos are well thought-out and helpful. Fun fact (for me): we apparently studied in the same university at the same time, but never met.Daniela, here's a different approach by Lina Bessonova that may be closer to what Koraks and others were suggesting. In this video she does show the prints from the same negative at all the grades so that's helpful and it is done in a straightforward, easy to understand way.
At the end she compares it to her best print at one grade and while the differences are slight, they are there
Here it is:
I hope this helps. She is a good presenter in my opinion who has done a number of videos on a range of darkroom matters
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So beautiful! A white sky certainly has its place and you've shown the nice graphic quality it can add. My gripe with it was more related to the lack of sunshine in daily life than with how it shows up in photos (although I much prefer fluffy clouds).A white sky is just unexposed paper! This was a fun print from last year where I flipped the paper 180 degrees in the easel after the first exposure and re-printed the whole image in the unexposed sky. I did end up having to make a simple mask though. Even though the sky printed totally white, it was enough to pre-flash the paper and the second exposure was significantly darker.
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but haven't watched the movie.
Speaking of white skies, check out Micahel Kenna's trees, shot in Japan in the winter. He is certainly not afraid of a lot of featureless skies--or foregrounds. https://www.michaelkenna.com/gallery.php?id=123
Dang...something else for the to-do list!Ok, drop the darkroom stuff and watch it first. Some things just take priority over a lot of other stuff
I love the stillness of his photographs, yet I find them depressing right now. I know it's not a permanent thing. I bet that if I look at them in the summer, I'll wish to be there. I'm not sure I've expressed myself clearly. I love winter and cloudy days, it's the endlessness string of gray days that I dislike and that, in turn, makes me dislike the gray/empty skies of the photos I take. I guess it'd be akin to not liking a song because you were feeling crappy the first time you heard it. Mood affects perception. It's not about fear, ignorance or rigidity of thought. It's just a reflection of an emotional state. And like with anything in life, this too shall pass. Now, will you just let me be and dream of fluffy clouds?!Speaking of white skies, check out Micahel Kenna's trees, shot in Japan in the winter. He is certainly not afraid of a lot of featureless skies--or foregrounds. https://www.michaelkenna.com/gallery.php?id=123
I am not afraid of featureless skies.
Dang...something else for the to-do list!
I love the stillness of his photographs, yet I find them depressing right now. I know it's not a permanent thing. I bet that if I look at them in the summer, I'll wish to be there. I'm not sure I've expressed myself clearly. I love winter and cloudy days, it's the endlessness string of gray days that I dislike and that, in turn, makes me dislike the gray/empty skies of the photos I take. I guess it'd be akin to not liking a song because you were feeling crappy the first time you heard it. Mood affects perception. It's not about fear, ignorance or rigidity of thought. It's just a reflection of an emotional state. And like with anything in life, this too shall pass. Now, will you just let me be and dream of fluffy clouds?!
If you find your weather is depressing, live in Rochester New York for a while and then everything will feel better when you get home again. Do you know why George Eastman chose to establish Eastman Kodak in Rochester New York? Because it is the world's largest natural darkroom.
I've lived in Chicago. I wonder how it compares...
If you find your weather is depressing, live in Rochester New York for a while and then everything will feel better when you get home again. Do you know why George Eastman chose to establish Eastman Kodak in Rochester New York? Because it is the world's largest natural darkroom.
Rochester is worst for overcast skies plus the number one tourist site is a cemetery and it goes down quickly from there.
Jeez, you two!Keep in mind that George Eastman eventually killed himself so there is that.
Rochester is worst for overcast skies plus the number one tourist site is a cemetery and it goes down quickly from there.
Rochester is worst for overcast skies plus the number one tourist site is a cemetery and it goes down quickly from there.
Keep in mind that George Eastman eventually killed himself so there is that.
Neither am I. But then, this is the eastside of the Sierras and not the sky...I am not afraid of featureless skies.
Is he buried there? That would be a good reason to visit the cemetery. After all, Père Lachaise is a destination in Paris.
Beautiful!Neither am I. But then, this is the eastside of the Sierras and not the sky...
Alabama Hills, 4x10, 24" lens, platinum/palladium print.
Beautiful!
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