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mike_mahoney

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8x10", 6x6cm, and 35mm, B&W silver processes and color transparency

(C-41 infrequently). I print all my own B&W conventionally and have

little interest in the current digital alternatives for B&W, have done

Cibachrome and C-printing in the past, but now looking to drum

scanning and Lightjet for printing from chromes. I own a 35mm film

scanner and an old flatbed scanner, mostly for putting images on the

web, infrequently for printing using online digital printing services

like Ofoto. I don't own a color inkjet printer. I also have a

Coolpix 990, which I use for snapshots, text scanning and image

archiving related to my academic research, and with a copystand and

lightbox for digitizing medium and large format negs/chromes for the

web.

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Mostly pleasure shooting, some freebie promotional shots for

charitable organizations that I'm involved with (generally for

magazine story illustration).

 

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Scan only to sell on ebay or to put together website (which I plan to

do shortly).

 

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Large Format - 8x10, 4x5, black and white traditional process only,

FB and RC paper, have not scanned any yet (actually, scanned one to

send to another large format guy for comments once).

 

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Medium Format - black and white with some color, process and print

B&W myself as with LF, send out color for process and print. very

little scanned so far.

 

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35mm - mostly color with some black and white. Send out all color,

do own black and white. Have scanned several for various purposes.

No manipulation other than simple overall brightness, contrast and

color balance.

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My film is TMAX 400 in 4 x 5 and 5 x 7 developed in split D-23.

Camera is Wista 4 x 5 with a 5 x 7 expander back, too. I print almost

exclusively in pt/pd in camera film sizes. I am using photoshop,

pagemaker and acrobat to create enlarged digital negatives (up to 10 x

12)for pt/pd printing.

 

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I try to use whatever works best for the image I want to produce.

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I shoot corporate and use RB's and 4x5. Pleasure shooting, B/W and some

color is done with my personal Linhof III and Bronica's. Alot of the B/

W is printed fiber but I always scan and archive both for work and

play. I am in the (slowly) process of getting into platinum and

Kallitypes but it is taking me longer than I want on those...

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Shoot B&W, Colour chrome and some neg, with 35mm, RB67 and my Graphic

View II. I shoot some location commercial work for my day job, some

freelance wedding and portraiture work, and to keep access to a

studio and darkroom for personal work (people and still life) I am

enrolled in a Continuing Ed photography prgramme at a local community

college. I work as a production artist on a computer and when it

comes to photography we are strictly slide to drum scanner to

photoshop to Quark Express when building ads. Similarly with my

personal work anything colour is now scanned (drum scanned for large

outputs) and output on a lightjet. B&W is printed myself at the local

community college darkroom. No digital capture yet.

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graphic view II & crown graphic for 4x5 b&w, rolleiflex 3.5e for b&w;

contax rx for b&w; do all my own darkroom work mostly 11x14 ilford

warmtone fb; am very computer literate and at this point have no

interest in digital photography; no professional need, no interest

in spending more time staring into a monitor

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4x5 and 8x10 black and white shot with either a modified Super Speed

or a Wehman Field camera respectively, T-Max 400&100 and any

outdated B&W flm I can buy cheap, printed on Seagull and Forte VC and

souped in Dektol.

 

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The above is paid for with a Day Job as a corporate staff Photog.

Here I use digital capture exclusively....DCS-460, and spend a lot of

time gazing into a monitor. Output to clients is mostly electronic.

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Only 'traditional' B/W, 5x4, 6x12cm, 6x9cm. Films Delta 100, SFX200/120, 55P/N, 35mm Kodak IR. Developer Pyro. I use fibre and RC papers usually warm toned and all exhibition prints are selenium toned. I process and print all my own films and prints in my home dark room.

 

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Landscape on 4x5 transparency.

 

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Color:

 

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For rough proofs: scan on Heidelberg LinoScan 1450, Photoshop on Mac,

print on Epson 1280. Soon to try some 3rd party inks.

 

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For final work: drum scan by West Coast Imaging using Tango, Photoshop

on Mac, print on LightJet (at Calypso).

 

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B&W: scan color trans on LinoScan 1450, Photoshop channel mixer to

B&W, print using PiezographyBW on Epson 1160 with CIS. Soon to try

Polaroid Type 55.

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I use real nice Crown Graphic with a 127mm Ektar (1961) mounted in a

new Copal shutter. Gitzo 1359 CF with a 1370M head. I use Ilford

HP5+, which I tray process in Ilfosol hunched over my bathtub at

night. I make cyanotype contact proofs on my balcony with 4x4

Sunprint Kits and an old printing frame. I print on fiber papers

only, Bregger and Agfa MC Classic using a rental darkroom in town.

I plan to eventually move up to an 8x10 camera and contact print

exclusively. I like the simplicity making contacts prints and look

forward to exploring alternative processes. Digital image making

just doesn't fascinate or inspire me like capturing light on film and

paper.

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