Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Platinum shmatimum! A true photograph etched for eternity upon a copper plate. What a bunch of wusses! On 7/13/05 4:52 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > One guys intolerance is another guys gross crass bass indulgence. > > To think that one can create a photograph of any respectable consequence on > a chip of 24x36mm rollfilm is ridiculous. > We all know that the only camera worth bothering with is a Deardorf. > 8x10 inch hopefully but ideally an 11x14. > To be contact printed on platinum paper which you coat yourself on 100% rag > paper. Its obvious to anyone that once you project film it falls apart. A > silver print is a pale imitation of a true photograph which is platinum. > All > the great photographers knew that. > To hold a camera in ones hands and think one is going to make a decent > photograph is a laugh. Your most important piece of year is a substantial > wooden tripod. Few of your exposures will be less than a minute. > Each sheet of film you shoot needs to be processed individually in trays in > total darkness in dangerous and tricky Pyro developer wearing rubber gloves > up to your elbows. > The quality you get putting them in racks in a tank you're just kidding > yourself. > > And my models are of courses virgins who bath in milk a full hour before > every shoot. Their parents help with the poses. I have a metal rack thing > behind their heads to keep them still for those 5 minute exposures. But > they > always blink the kids nowadays have no self control. > > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland Oregon > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information