Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 >From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> >Subject: [Leica] More comments: how do you use your images >I am hoping to stimulate a bit more discussion on this topic: why do >you take the images, what do you do with them, how big do you print, >how do you print, why do you print etc > >Cheers ................................................................................ I like to capture things I see around me, to show others if possible, but at least so I can view the subject again whenever I want. I work in most of the usual photographic categories, except sports. For my most personal photos, I've learned to take a picture when I get a certain feeling in my stomach that indicates, "take this". (I always carry a camera) These are B&W, usually surreal juxtapositions or subliminal repeated forms. I'm years behind in enlarging, but when I get around to it, I print them as 5x7 images on horizontal 8x10 fiber paper so they don't have to be turned to look at the verticals, as if in a book. Every so often I've got to make some 8x10 RC prints to keep me going until I can have a serious session. For personal color, I shoot mostly Kodachrome 64 and just keep accumulating slides. Sometimes I'll project them, but mostly I look at them in slide sleeves with a loupe. I also do documentation in B&W and some stereo slides of old buildings in case or before they're torn down, for posterity; and fun portraits in the syle of Hurrell, et al. These B&W prints might be up to 16"x20". This past winter I made some enlargements of city scenes this size for a company's wall decor. *Leica Content* Some were M3 negatives shot on H&W control film (remember that?) so they showed great detail and no grain. Love that Summicron. At work, I appreciate the advantages of digital, but for myself, if it's not on a piece of film, it doesn't seem real. I figure that when I'm gone, my collection can always be scanned. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak Senior Photographer Visual Imaging Univ. of Wis.- Milwaukee Information & Media Technologies amr3@uwm.edu (414) 229-6525