Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ian Stanley wrote: > I just went through my issues of Leica Fotografie International and in > issue 6/96 there is an interesting article on shooting with colour negs. > The article is by Luis Castaneda, who apparently submits around 10,000 > images yearly to The Image Bank. According to the article he has made the > switch to colour negatives. I have seen colour prints of his made from > negatives instead of transparencies and they are very good. Ian, I recently spent several days with Luis when he was here to give a lecture and slide show to the local ASMP chapter. We wandered San Diego, shot stock, shot the bull, talked about Leicas and women (things we both cherish) and personal work versus commercial. And the changes in stock (TIB hiring recent college grads with no experience to edit submissions by photographers with years of experience and thereby controlling the economic future of the photographer). His lecture, by the way, generated more positive feedback to the chapter officers than any event in recent history. And he shoots almost exclusively chrome, mostly Velvia, for TIB submissions. He primarily shoots neg for available darkness stuff and color correction problems, and mostly holds these for personal files. He also does all his own processing--E6, BW, C-41 and printing of same. All with Jobo. He is currently in Spain and Germany shooting for Leica and Minox promotion. And this summer he will be in Guatemala for a large exhibition of his work (which he printed) and as a guest of the government. He said Guatemala is his favorite place on earth for photography. As an aside, on a recent job I shot both Provia 1600 and Super G 800 pushed a stop on same scene (mercury vapor lights only (flammable area) with exposures in the 30 @ f/4 range. Provia was brutal, but the color, grain and sharpness and shadow detail of the SuperG is just stunning. Did one hour photo at good lab. Prints and negs off to agency. They can flatbed scan the 4x6 prints for position, scan the negs on the drum scanner, correct on the computer and we all live happily ever after. My only complaint with color negs is that it is difficult to pull a selection to keep for files or portfolio while waiting (maybe forever) for images to come back from client. Gotta getta scanner, I guess. Donal Philby San Diego