World Pinhole Photo Day Print Exchange - FAQs and Sign Up Thread

[Ray Heath]

g'day all
thnx Art
i just processed 5 8x10 Fortepan sheets exposed in my homemade box pinhole camera

developed each sheet individually as i didn't want to risk scratching

a couple are worthwhile, awaiting group info

Ray

 

[gr82bart]

Hi folks,

Just checking in here, and we're up to 27 people. Now I am at this fork in the road ...

1. I can break you up into 9 groups of three people - this means you you all have to just send 2 prints - real easy, eh?
   
2. I can break you up into 3 groups of five people and 3 groups of four people. Some of you will have send 4 prints, some 3 prints.
   
3. I can break you up into groups of 5 people, but I would need 2 volunteers (I would be the third volunteer if you did the math) willing to be on two groups. This means the volunteers would have to send out a whopping 8 prints, everyone else 4 prints.

So I am asking the people - 1 ,2 or 3 ? Pick one. Majority rules.

Thanks, Art.

 

[Vaughn]

I'll take what's behind door #2, Bob.

Vaughn

 

[Sirius Glass]

I'll take what's behind door #2, Bob.

Vaughn

*2

Steve

 

[crispinuk]

My vote is for number two.

Crispin.

 

[noblebeast]

#2 for me as well. Er...I mean choice #2 rather than, well...

Joe

 

[DWThomas]

Choice #2 sounds good

DaveT

 

[keeds]

#2 for me...

 

[Ray Heath]

option 2 sounds fine

 

[Freneticist]

option 2 works for me.
dev'd shots yesterday afternoon, made 5 prints.
actually 6, but grand-daughter claimed one of them.

 

[gr82bart]

OK, so it looks like option 2 it is. Not exactly majority, but good enough as a trend! Here are the groups:

Group 1
Anupam Basu
artdog
astrobeck
b1ltr1te

Group 2
Bastiaan
bdilgard
bshimmin
bsignorelli
crispinuk

Group 3
Doyle Thomas
DWThomas
dylder
Freneticist

Group 4
George Papantoniou
gr82bart
keeds
Kobin
magic823

Group 5
noblebeast
nsurit
Pete H
Ray Heath

Group 6
Rich Ullsmith
Rlibersky
Stever
Tony Egan
Vaughn

Make sure to send a Private Message (PM) to the rest of your group your real name and mailing address. Also, don't forget to post a message here when you have sent your print or when you received a print.

Deadline to get your print out is the end of June (60 days), so get printing!

Regards, Art.

 

[DWThomas]

An odd question crossed what's left of my mind -- are we assuming the exchanged print will be the WPPD submission shot -- or could it be different?

I went on a silly trek through miles of northeastern Pennsylvania on Sunday and took a dozen or so shots with the pinhole (as well as others via more conventional gear). Most of the negatives should be easily printable. I haven't quite sorted out where I'm going with them, but based on scans, I see one that appeals to me more as a potential art object while I might prefer some dramatic piece of infrastructure/geographical subject as a WPPD submission to show to the world.

Geeze, maybe I should do some contact sheets or test prints before I strain my brain further.

Getting the first roll onto a stainless reel yesterday morning was the worst such experience I've ever had -- dunno, sometimes stuff happens! Thankfully it came out OK, and the rest went better.

DaveT (decisions, decisions ...)

 

[gr82bart]

Dave,

I'm sure whatever you post in the gallery, people will like, and whatever you send as part of the exchange, the recipients will like. If they happen to be the same image, awesome.

Regards, Art.

 

[crispinuk]

Well, I've squeezed in the time to print off the Minhole and Horsehole negs. I decided to use the Horsehole for the WPPD submission largely because I used the Minhole last year and I'm having dusty neg problems at the moment and the least dusty image was from the Horsehole.
It'll be here: http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2007/index.php?id=1014
I imposed a rule on myself that I'd use the WPPD image for the exchange.

This is the first time I've put much effort into using the pinhole panel on my Horseman 980 and I'm quite impressed with the result. I'm definitely going to be playing with it more in the future.

Crispin

 

[gr82bart]

Well, I PMed my group yesterday. I too have pics ready to mail, so I'm just waiting for addresses. I'm really looking forward to the prints. So far the ones I have seen look great. I also posted my image, along with other APUGers, in the WPPD gallery at: http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2007/index.php?gc=y

Regards, Art.

 

[Kobin]

I'd like to make one trip to the PO (it's a half-hour stand-in after work on a good day), and I'd like to beat the postage rate increase coming up on the 14th. I've got the prints, just need one more address.
K.

 

[gr82bart]

I'll second K's post. Remember when you send a PM you can send it to up to 5 people at the same time too.

Regards, Art.

 

[Kobin]

Got a nice color pinaroid from Art; mounted and matted! Thanks Art.

I'm sending out my prints Fri or Sat to those addresses I have.

I love thses exchanges.

K.

 

[Doyle Thomas]

Prints are in route to:
gr82bart
Dwthomas
Freneticist

no word from Dylder

Doyle

 

[DWThomas]

A beautiful color shot from Doyle showed up in today's mail. Thank you very much. I finally got my darkroom ventilator fixed last night, so I hope to get images on paper next week.

DaveT

 

[Kobin]

I've mailed my prints to the three addresses I was given.

K.

 

[keeds]

Received a great polaroid print from Art. Must try some colour polaroid, it looks great. Slight greeny colour cast from the long exposure I presume which just adds to the overall image. It's an intriguing image. Very pleasing. Thanks.

Sheets are dev'd but still not printed yet. New addition to the family taking up all my spare time at the mo.... He's called Buddy and he's an 8 week old mischievious Border Collie. Will get prints done soonest and sent out.

 

[noblebeast]

My print should be getting mailed off tomorrow. Until then, here is the cyber version:
http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2007/index.php?id=2190

 

[George Papantoniou]

Sent three of the prints yesterday to the guys who gave me their adress. I haven't heard from the fourth one...

 

[George Papantoniou]

And this afternoon I got two fantastic prints in the mailbox, one from Art and one from Ralph. The first one is a Pola-pinhole (green and quite atmosheric, quite impressive indeed) and the second a print made out of a 8x10 neg (wow !!!) taken in a street that looks much like a prop for a Western starring John Wayne (to me, at least)...

Thank you guys, these are really great pinhole pictures, they make me think that I should get to work to improve my technique...