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This dude is hard core and old school

Hence

Hence the old saying -- great photography is easy. You just load the film into your camera and bleed from the eyes.
 
Nice to see someone willing to invest such energy in keeping these techniques alive. Gotta admire the dedication.
 
Nice work he reminds me a bit of a energizer bunny, the spraypaint is something I wouldn't call oldstyle it's also not archival. Thanks for the link
 
I really like his acceptance of not overly perfect prints. Little tears and imperfections are made by him and each piece is unique. Way different than some digital photographers overly retouches and each ink jet print is exactly the same. It's the difference between eating a home cooked meal that someone slaved over and eating a microwave dinner. One has soul and the other one doesn't.
 

Well said. +1
 
Great video. I've played with spray painting directly on the back of prints made on ortho litho sheets at 8x10 size. It has a really cool effect with silver and gold spray paints. It's not entirely uniform but has speckles that reflects a bit differently depending on the angle of light. But something with that much work a nice deep black velvet backed frame would have been a much nicer choice than the spray paint.
 
I enjoyed the video and found it to be very educational. The photographer makes an interesting point that our options as photographers has been shrinking and not expanding. In Japan the government encourages people to maintain older crafts.
 
Mainecoonmaniac, thanks for sharing the video - a thoroughly enjoyable and motivational one. I'm going to watch all his videos. He's quite funny too.

Bests,
Ashfaque
 
Love the attitude



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Love it. Love the sinking tripod.
Maybe is my English but I understood something about keeping your feet wet while doing wet plates?
Chuck Norris shoots like that. Only with aligators.
 
Love it. Even the sinking tripod.
Maybe is my English but I understood something about keeping your feet wet while doing wet plates?
Chuck Norris shoots like that. Only with aligators.
 
Awesome!

And to think.. I thought I was Hardcore lugging the Mamiya RZ67 II a half of a mile to shoot a tree by the Hudson River!
 
he said something like in the 1800s there were like 40 different processes
one could make a photograph with ( that were available at the same time ) ...
and i wonder for how long that was actually true ..
some things went out of vogue and were stopped pretty much ..
like by the 1860s there weren't a lot of people making dags or calotype/salt prints
but there were people making wet plate-stuff and uv exposed prints from wet plate/collodion glass negatives
while there was an overlap for a short period of time between gaslight, pt/pd/planotype, cyanotype, albumen
carbon/gumovers ... by the 1910s a lot of those processes went out of vogue and i ttook masters like john garo in boston
to bring pt/pd gumovers out of the annals of history and back into the light again ... not to say that there weren't stragglers
who continued doing what they were doing, with materials they made themselves ... but it went out of the main stream ..

like the wild west only lasted for a few years, how long did this nirvana of photographic processes exist
when one had 40 processes to choose from ?
 
If there's one thing I've learned in decades of creativity (sort of!) paying my bills... it's that you are a partner with the tools, not the commander.

Photoshop changed much of that. Fewer surprises, especially as you get second nature. Total control.

I've put up a wall between my digital and analog work. There's just so much that comes from fighting for a good print. And the no-2-prints-the-same aspect of many alternative processes? It's like there's some creation-goddess messing with your work and just handing you cool stuff, if you're open to it.
 
BTW, that video is a wonderful way to show people just what sorts of things we talk about 'round here. I can't imagine a digital-shooting "civilian" not being wowed by that.
 
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