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    My new published book "This Working Life"

    in Member's Photo News

    Posted

    <p>Thanks Michael and Phil. Phil, Thanks for the link to Johnstown. I just spent many minutes checking out all the photos by balko. The snow storm pics remind me of when I was there in April this year. I was there for some family events for about 4 days. I have several family members there from my mother's side. I was born in South Fork. I'm sure you know it. Have a cousin there still. My grandfather is part of the history of the 1889 damn brake and flood of Johnstown. The photo in the book was shot from the observation deck at the top of the incline in 1968.</p>

    Photos Looking Greenish

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    <p>Been working on a Blurb memorial book for about 2 years. The photographs are mostly B&W processed in PS Elements 5. Cropping, spotting, contrast tweaking and imparting a little color from light tan to brown tones. Sometimes a subtle hue of yellow/gold looked good on some of the older vintage photos from the early 20th century. As I’m looking back over some of those early pages/photos on my program from a year or so ago, I’ve been noticing a definite color shift to green on my monitor where there used to be a tan or slight brown tone. More recent photos in the book look OK. I’m using a Dell PC & monitor and I color calibrate with my ColorVision Spyder2express about once a month. I’m noticing the same color shift to green on some photos on my web site and in My Picture folders. Any thoughts on this? Is my monitor going bad?</p>

    Still have the darkroom?

    in Black & White Practice

    Posted

    <p>Been shooting film my whole life - from the early 1950's 'till now. I think Tri-X was ASA 200 then. Processed it in FG-7. As to darkrooms, my first was in my parents basement on my Dad's workbench and I could only use it at night. At first I only made contact prints with an Ansco kit which consisted of square metal box, 8"x8"x8", a hinged lid on top and two light bulb sockets inside for white light and a safe light. Also 3 little 3-1/2" x 6-1/2" black plastic trays, packs of chemistry, a small safelight and wooden tongs. My first enlarger was a Bessler 23C, new in 1957. I've worked in school darkrooms, U.S. Navy darkrooms in Florida, Cuba and Puerto Rico, a couple of small commercial studio darkrooms and company darkrooms as an employee. <br>

    I've rented a few at times and used friends' darkrooms. I had one set up in a studio apartment bathroom with the trays in the tub, an apartment kitchen with the trays on the sink and the enlarger on the dishwasher. My first "real" one was in a 3 room office space - the darkroom was 6'X12'. I built a 2' x 6' plywood sink for that one. Acquired an Omega Pro Lab 4x5 enlarger at this point. Moved to a rented house several years later and made a darkroom out of a former 10'x12' storage room in the basement. Built a new sink which I still have - 9'x3'x10' - 3/4" and 1/2" plywood and pine board. <br>

    Am now in an old warehouse converted into loft apartments for the past 12 years. My darkroom here is a 17'x18' space that doubles as storage for chemistry and file cabinets for contacts and negatives. Really bigger than I "need". I've made most of the prints I'm most proud of here in this darkroom. I'm going to have to give it up soon. The building is almost completely abandoned now - just two units occupied out of 15 when I first came. The building owners have neglected to maintain it. I've had serious water floods raining down on me from upper floors due to poorly maintained plumbing but fortunately not near the darkroom or print storage areas. Frozen pipes bursting lately.<br>

    I can't envision the day when I would give up the darkroom in favor of digital shooting and PhotoShop. I did buy a low price digital camera a year or so ago expressly for copying prints (16x20, 20x24) too large to scan on my Epson 4990. This, as a way to download to my hard drive and then up load to my web site - or is it the other way around? And I only got a computer and scanner 2 years ago because I wanted to put up a web site.I do not and can not think of digital ink jet prints as serious items of any value.<br>

    This response is way longer than I expected to make. Just that the impending inevitabillty of loosing <strong>this</strong> darkroom makes me extremely sad and anxious because I may not find a place to set up again in the near future. I'm very mindful of all the negatives (all b&w) I have that may never get printed. There seems to be so much more to do. <br>

    Due to the forums on Photo.net and others, my darkroom skills have fine-tuned considerably and I've learned more than I thought was out there to learn. I cannot imagine subverting and abandoning all that for another system so foreign to me and so seemingly plastic and "unreal" and gutless. <br>

    I feel I have to say that I know that digital everything is really great and everyone has to follow their own Muse. But if it's not in your gut, I'd say forget it! </p>

    No power

    in Mirrorless Digital Cameras

    Posted

    Thanks Sarah and Michael - I discovered the camera is still under warranty so I took it to a local (Wyandotte, MI) Fuji authorized repair shop. I should know something in a week or so.

    In the meantime I think I'll read the manual a little more carefully.

    Russ

    No power

    in Mirrorless Digital Cameras

    Posted

    I have a S700 that I haven't used very much - mostly to make digital copies of large photographs for my website.

    Tried to turn it on today with batteries inserted and with an AC adapter hook up - but nothing. The batteries and

    adapter check out as good so the camera and/or the "power on" switch must be faulty.

    Anybody ever have this problem? Any first hand knowledge of this kind of repair cost?

    Thanks

    Using poetry on website without permission

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    About 10 years ago I put together a traveling exhibit of my photographs. I also

    included poetry from various poets, some deceased but most living. As a

    courtesy, I sought and received permission from the living poets to use their

    poems. Now I want to put the exhibit with the poems on my website. Ethically, I

    don't know where I stand. Nor do I know where I stand legally. Would the website

    inclusions of the poems be closer to actual publishing than the exhibits? I suspect

    yes. I guess I'm interested in the legal side of this question for website use. I do

    not think I was legally obligated with the exhibits but with the website use, I'm just

    not sure. Anybody have any insight here?

    Thanks, Russ Marshall

    Getting the green out!

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    Thanks Gary & Mike for your responses. I'd like to expand on my original question. When I first uploaded my scanned images (from prints)onto the web builder pages, they looked very close like the prints i.e. pinky grey tannish tones from limited time immersion in the sepia bleach solution. Other prints a more full sepia tone. Over time as I opened/closed these pages, resized the photos, adding text but not messing w/the tones, I began to realize that the subtle tones of grey,pink and tan had become more greenish. Is this happening because the photos I'm closing/opening,resizing are in jpg formats and not tiff? I've read that each time a jpg file/photo is opened and edited and then "saved" or "saved as", something is lost in the compression process in the way of quality. Jpg is refered to as "lossy" in this regard and Tiff compression as "lossless". Since I've been using the "save" and "save as" prompts with my jpg images, would this "lossy" action have an effect on the tones going from "pinky,grey and tan" to green? Does anybody know about this stuff? By the way - the tone loss doesn't "seem" to be as pronounced when the images are viewed in Photoshop,Lightroom,Windows Picture and Fax Viewer,Corel Photo Album 6. Only in the Yahoo Sitebuilder pages. These pages are not on the web yet - maybe they'll look "better" or different when they are???? Thanks to Gary & Mike I have no problem "getting the green out" or I can re-scan. I'm just wondering why it's gradually creeping back in. Thanks, Russ

    Getting the green out!

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    I've been scanning (Epson 4990) split-toned B&W prints into my hard disc files

    and uploading onto web pages I'm building w/Yahoo Sitebuilder. I'm not

    interested in printing from these files, only in how the images look on a web

    page. Of course the goal is to very closly duplicate the print tones, etc. A

    few of images scanned have taken on a greenish cast from the original split-

    toned sepia prints. Been reading a little about jpeg and tiff file formats. My

    scans and "saves" and "save as" have all been in jpeg. I'm having trouble

    getting the green out of these scans and back to the original "look". I'm new

    to computer manipulations so if anyone can offer a simple procedural. I have

    PS Elements 5. Thanks very much, Russ

    Exhibit jurors including their own photographs?

    in Business of Photography

    Posted

    My friend and I have this ongoing disagreement about whether or not jurors of

    photography exhibits should include their own work in the show. He thinks it's

    OK. I say absolutely NO - not under any circumstances. I'm obviously looking

    for support but I'm open to be convinced otherwise. My basic point of view

    simply put is one of possible conflict of interest on the part of the juror

    and perceptions of questionable impartiality in the minds of the people

    entering photographs to be judged. I'm totally OK with jurors posting a sheet

    on the wall in the exhibit detailing their credentials, bio, exhibit and

    publication history. I have a problem when they include their own photograph(s)

    even if part of the agreement with the gallery manager as compensation. In

    addition to the points made above, the juror's photograph(s) rob wall space

    that could have accommodated additional submitted prints. My friend says that

    the incusion of juror prints will give the other photographers a better idea

    of the jurors qualifications to judge their work. Even if the juror hangs a

    print in an area construed as apart from the exhibit is still OK with him. And

    I still say absolutely NO. I say the exhibit is not about massaging the jurors

    ego by offering a space for their photographs as enticement. It's about the

    photographs that were entered and made the cut.

     

    Anybody agree or disagree for the same or different reasons? Russ

    Sorry this is so long.

    B&W Photo Editing Program

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    I'm looking for user advice on editing my scanned b&w prints and slides. Most of

    the prints are toned to various degrees in sepia and Kodak brown toner. A lot

    have subtle tones of pinky gray and hints of tan. Others are toned to a rich

    chocolate brown. I'm scanning with an Epson 4990 and Photoshop Elements 2.0 is

    installed on my Dell. I can't seem to get the tones I just mentioned with these

    two programs. Does anyone know about any programs specifically geared for brown

    toned b&w prints & slides. I don't need a lot of "bells and whistles" that PS

    offers, just something to deal w/my b&w's. Thanks, Russ

    Goerz Dagor Gold Ring 81/2" F/8-45

    in Large Format

    Posted

    Michael you are absolutly right, it's an F/6.8 Gold Ring and also not an 8-1/2" but an 8-1/4". The serial #'s are the same front and back.Also on the lens rim is "C.P. Goerz Am. Opt. Co." So I take it then that the lens was made in the 1920s. It's also mounted in a Synchro - Compur shutter w/widest aperature marking of F/6.8

    Thanks for your info in spite of my mis-info.

    Developers/time &temps for 4x5 copy negs.

    in Black & White Practice

    Posted

    I going to copy some 16x20 B&W prints on 4x5 sheet film. Haven't done this in

    a long while but do know that if exposure/developer procedures are wrong I

    could end up with a "too contrasty" negative. So (answering my own question) I

    think I have to overexpose a little and underdevelope a little? Which film/dev

    combo would be best? I'd like to use a slow film around 125 ASA. I'm going to

    use the copy negs to post on a web site and also to make 16x20 prints to match

    the originals that I copied. Any advise would be very helpful. Thanks, Russ

    Verichrome Pan 120 - ASA 125

    in Black & White Practice

    Posted

    Rufus, I have used Verichrome Pan for landscapes, city views and industrial work and processed also in Microdol-X 1:3. I'm very pleased w/this film/dev combination. Everything was always very sharp, the mid-tones silvery, the skys creamy and the blacks full. I could use a brick of it myself. Any offers? R.Marshall
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