Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good work Mark...you did a great job. Thanks for sharing. And where can I go to get an invite to this party next year? Weeehaw!!!! Lea Mark Rabiner wrote: > http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/pdfs/MuseumHalloween.pdf > > The above is a 1979k PDF which takes less then a minute to load if you have DSL > i think. Hit the option button if you want it not to come up in your browser, > but on your hard disk where your acrobat works a bit better. > > It consists of 15 4x5's very close to 1:1 neg-size on a 22x18in horizontal > poster layout. > > The location is the Portland Art Museum North Wing Grand Ballroom lobby. > > I shot 4x5 Kodak T Max 400 which i ran in a Kodak half gallon rubber tank in > Xtol 1:1 for ten minutes. Agitating once per minute as per usual. 70 degrees. 8 > at a time. 4 runs. Fixed twice. 4 tanks. That's 32 images so i edited 17 out for > perhaps the time being. I added 2 ounces of pure Xtol after every run to the > tank. 8 sheets equals 2 rolls. Straight answers on replenishing Xtol with Xtol i > could not get because they kept talking about seasoning in the Kodak literature. > And I'm allergic to MSG! No i wasn't about to start "seasoning" this stuff where > was i when they invented THAT? No one told me about it. My guess on 10 minutes > turned out to be right on the money. My consistency in all four runs is > remarkable. My contact sheets all certainly got the same time under my enlarger > and matched up well. > > There is some brief nudity here. Some People wearing briefs - and not much else > plus body paint. No boxers - "thongs." And paint. But they left a one inch bald > spot at the base of their spinal cord so they wouldn't suffocate!!! Such A Cold > Finger.......beckens You To Enter His Web Of Sin.......... > > So if the kids are standing right there next you your monitor as you download > this blindfold them. > Better yet gag 'em!!! > > And a few shots might even be a tad disturbing. Are you downloading yet? > > I took an ambient reading and got 5.6 at a 1/4 second! > > I had my Calumet/Cambo NX set up on my new Ries wooden tripod in the corner of > the room. The lobby. No head! The camera was hot-wired right to the tripod. Do i > have shifts or do i have shifts? Do i have legs which lock anywhere? The > ballroom things were happening fast and the reading was 5.6 at at least a > minute. It would have been an empty ballroom. A few very transparent Ghosts. No > Pepe and the bottle blonds. > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004UDE8/qid%3D1005731256/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/103-9844849-2939036 > Like a civil war battlefield... an empty field. Oh and the lens was a Fujinon W > 5.6 210 i got ten years ago from Calumet. Way before i got into German glass. > > I thought: These pictures are not going to come out! I don't have a clue what > I'm doing in this format! These people are boring. What the hell am i doing here > in this Nadar Peirott Photographer white clown outfit!? > > But as I've been all of a sudden shooting wide open with all my other cameras > and lenses why not 4x5? Great bokeh maybe! Eh? The blur might be a big plus! > Stop them from being deadly boring Maybe! > > A little bit out of focus; a little blur - what have you got? A transcendental > experience! Mush! I focused my camera a foot from the corner. Some people came > right over and stood there. They were not so boring. They wanted to know what > they owed me. This happened all night. Where did they keep their wallets with > those Costumes? I had special pockets sown into mine! I clicked the shutter > having cocked it ahead of time. Stuck the dark slide back in. Said thank you. > Flipped the thing around took the dark slide out and parked it at the top > position just like the 1850's photo. Cocked the shutter and went looking for a > spicy victim. > Others found me. > What do you say when a big white clown asks you to take your picture? I think > most of them saw my big view camera parked out in the corner of the lobby. 4x5 > is both impressive and unthreatening. People will give you the second degree > with hand held small rollfilm cameras as you try to blend in. We photogs have a > bad rap as of late. But the 4x5 on a wooden tripod breaks all that down. > > My instincts based on i don't know what came thru for me on these shots. They > came out exactly as i thought they would. The blur and bokeh. I'm happy as a clam. > > I love Halloween because everyone dresses up as themselves! Their year round > costumes finally come off! > > These are scans at 1200 dpi off the contact sheets. A full sheet at a time. I > then divided them up into individual units. Eventually i may scan the negs if i > want to inkjet them. But i may upload these to my website. But I'm going to > darkroom print them 11x14 warts and all. My Omega D2 had no cloning tool. Must > have not been in the shipping case. I'm seeing how I'm going to have to air > blast and brush my negs better as i load them in the holders. This is day one > for me. I've shot very little sheetfilm. And not in a decade. > > Each indiviual neg was 5 inches high. Around 6000 pixels high. Then downsampled > to screen size, 768 pixels high-still 5 inches high and put in the layout in > Adobe InDesign. > > The texture of the scratched contact sheet making glass really comes though if > you zoom in with the magic magnifying glass in Adobe Acrobat! By the way my > wifes Epson printer made a stupendous letter sized inkjet of this thing. The > default for acrobat is "size to print." Very sharp! > > My wife punched holes in the contact sheets to put in the 3 ring binder with the > negs! I forgot to tell her i was planning on scanning them! But i find those > punch holes a real plus at this point with the pictures! How much would i have > to pay an artistic consultant to put those holes in there so perfectly! Without > the holes and glass scratches i have no ideal how much I'll still like these > shots! We'll see. I cant wait to bring these back into the darkroom. and put > them INTO the enlarger this time. > Its been years since i've printed this large a neg. > > Mark Rabiner > > Portland, Oregon USA > > http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/ > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Lea Murphy Whiny Dog Press 816-333-9111 Home: http://www.whinydogpress.com Newest: http://www.whinydogpress.com/new.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html