Barrett e-mailed this link
"Dear Customer,
Mono Paper, Film and Chemical Equivalents Charts
ILFORD Photo has produced a pair of charts showing the ILFORD equivalents for Kodak and Agfa Papers, Films and Chemicals, thus enabling users to switch with no problems and no need to experiment to find an alternative product. "
Do they know something we don't?
12/13/2005
12/12/2005
Rent Demonstration
I'm always asked - so what do you shoot? I shoot:
I shoot looks. Glances. Sunrises and sunsets. Trees if they lean towards me properly. Demonstrations when a kid's tongue sticks to a railing. Shadows if they have the proper politics. Mystery and mayhem. Night floating down the river with a diamond necklace made from gleaming bridges.
I specialize in kids and old people. People my own age are 2-dimensional beings. They specialize in hiding during the middle decades. You can't appreciate them until you are in your eighties.
I shoot whatever presents itself to me, whether it exists or not. Sometimes I just sit and wait by the river and wait until the great moment approaches from behind me and taps me on the shoulder with cold steel fingers. The fingers have an ancient patina on them. They reach out from the monumental factory that once manufactured faucets. The faucet fingers are all that's left of the ghosts walking through corridors in the open sunlight near the river, near the piers where a father and son fish the now polluted waters.
That's the sort of thing I shoot.
Matting Info
The museum 4-ply board arrived from Stu-Art (sort of). They sent it to the building next to mine but the woman who got it let me know and so all is well. The mat and cuts looks great.
Remember - when comparing these prices - the Stu-Art window mats are custom cut to my specs. the Light Impression Boards are not.
So - the window mat is 4-ply archival M11 Museum White with custom bevel window cut. Backing board is MM type.
Stu-Art
8 x 10 mat size = 1.91 ea. + .39 backing board = $2.30 ea.
11 x 14 mat size = 3.50 ea. + MM back .74 = $4.24
16 x 20 Museum Board with any opening: $5.00 ea + $1.25 back = $6.25 ea.
Light Impressions (not custom cut):
8 x 10 board and back with 5 x 7 opening = $4.59 ea.
11 x 14 board and back with 8 x 10 opening = $5.99 ea.
16 x 20 museum board and back with 11 x 14 opening = 7.59 ea.
You can see - the biggest savings with Stu-Art is with the 8 x 10 inch size.
Remember - when comparing these prices - the Stu-Art window mats are custom cut to my specs. the Light Impression Boards are not.
So - the window mat is 4-ply archival M11 Museum White with custom bevel window cut. Backing board is MM type.
Stu-Art
8 x 10 mat size = 1.91 ea. + .39 backing board = $2.30 ea.
11 x 14 mat size = 3.50 ea. + MM back .74 = $4.24
16 x 20 Museum Board with any opening: $5.00 ea + $1.25 back = $6.25 ea.
Light Impressions (not custom cut):
8 x 10 board and back with 5 x 7 opening = $4.59 ea.
11 x 14 board and back with 8 x 10 opening = $5.99 ea.
16 x 20 museum board and back with 11 x 14 opening = 7.59 ea.
You can see - the biggest savings with Stu-Art is with the 8 x 10 inch size.
12/11/2005
Google Image Search
You might find this interesting - I remember that Heath was looking for something along these lines. If you leave the field blank, it will bring back every grayscale image in the Prints-For-Sale directory - though I'm still trying to figure out how to get it not to pick up the index files though. But generally if the text you are looking for is in the page, it's picked up.
Here's the search page using google image search. It's still pulling up the index pages (which I don't want), but this is about the most useful thing I've found for searching particular parts of the site and returning images. It only returns jpgs that are "grayscale." There are some other parameters I can fool around with as well.
Here's the search page using google image search. It's still pulling up the index pages (which I don't want), but this is about the most useful thing I've found for searching particular parts of the site and returning images. It only returns jpgs that are "grayscale." There are some other parameters I can fool around with as well.
12/09/2005
Update
This has been a long and tiring few weeks. In the middle of the busy season I was trying to do too many things at once: calendars, books, new scanner, re-scanning and re-working old images, new PS techniques, and of course trying to get prints out.
The calendars and books came to nothing - though I learned a few things. I re-did the Photography Store so that images that are available in smaller sizes appear in the main Photo gallery.
This morning - as I walked to the corner through huge snowflakes - I noticed how beautiful the city looked but had no desire to pick up a camera. I would rather sit at home and work on some older images and finish the book I'm reading (White Man's Grave - which I think is giving me nightmares, but I can't put it down).
I'm planning to spend the next week really re-organizing negatives. There are many good ones sitting around that have never been printed.
Along the way - I sometimes look through some of the digital captures - and there are good images there as well but as soon as I start to work on them - there is almost always some damned thing in it that annoys me and I curse myself that I didn't get it on film.
Maybe some overly smooth highlight - or last night I was working on this shot of two people on an escalator and at the point where their feet touch the elevator grating there is this annoying jagged design that wouldn't have been there with film. I'm not sure what you call that - fringing? Whatever it is the sensor was confused by where the persons foot and the escalator met and it wasn't captured properly. I can fix it - mostly with a bunch of PS techniques - but - there's no reason I should have to.
Other digital shots are perfectly fine. I've been adding grain to them with PhotoKit Sharpner and it's not a bad look. But there are some shots that I can't fix.
The calendars and books came to nothing - though I learned a few things. I re-did the Photography Store so that images that are available in smaller sizes appear in the main Photo gallery.
This morning - as I walked to the corner through huge snowflakes - I noticed how beautiful the city looked but had no desire to pick up a camera. I would rather sit at home and work on some older images and finish the book I'm reading (White Man's Grave - which I think is giving me nightmares, but I can't put it down).
I'm planning to spend the next week really re-organizing negatives. There are many good ones sitting around that have never been printed.
Along the way - I sometimes look through some of the digital captures - and there are good images there as well but as soon as I start to work on them - there is almost always some damned thing in it that annoys me and I curse myself that I didn't get it on film.
Maybe some overly smooth highlight - or last night I was working on this shot of two people on an escalator and at the point where their feet touch the elevator grating there is this annoying jagged design that wouldn't have been there with film. I'm not sure what you call that - fringing? Whatever it is the sensor was confused by where the persons foot and the escalator met and it wasn't captured properly. I can fix it - mostly with a bunch of PS techniques - but - there's no reason I should have to.
Other digital shots are perfectly fine. I've been adding grain to them with PhotoKit Sharpner and it's not a bad look. But there are some shots that I can't fix.
Christmas 2005
It's Christmas. No doubt of it.
The Victoria's Secret mannequins are in skimpy Santa Clause outfits. The emblazoned slogan on the windows proclaims: Have A Very Sexy Christmas.
The landlord (that we've been fighting with to put a lock on the front entrance) has placed a green plastic wreath on that door.
The office-workers are listening for rumors about their Christmas bonuses.
The CIA is sending Christmas dinners to secret inquisitions drops overseas.
In the old days - He drove the money-changers and merchants out of the temple. Now He returns to find that the entire economy of the country is based on his birthday. He finds everything from underwear to electric screwdrivers being sold in his name.
So He stands on the corner of 59th and Park Avenue and begins to rail out against how his name has been commercialized. He still has his old clothes on, and looks somewhat scruffy. The local cops aren't even sure what language he's speaking but it sounds like something middle-eastern. Definitely not English. No identification. He has picked up a few words and he's apparantly angry about Christmas. Angry about Christmas? Foreign? Could be a terrorist. Better check him out.
New York's Finest pick him up and notify the FBI.
He's brought in for questioning.
Next thing he knows, he's on a plane headed for a secret drop point in Jordan. At first he thinks he's being taken back to his birthplace, only to find himself deposited in a small cell where he's pumped with drugs.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch - there's a big brouhahah in D.C. about whether they've got a Christmas tree or a holiday tree in front of the White House and whether or not Pres. Bush can say "Merry Christmas" in his greeting cards or not.
Oh the point. If there is one. If Jesus ever did re-appear he'd probably just get himself into trouble again. He'd be denounced by the Christian right. He'd be seen as anti-American. And before you knew it - he'd be out of the way. I don't think he'd be allowed to be martyred again. Just disappeared.
The Victoria's Secret mannequins are in skimpy Santa Clause outfits. The emblazoned slogan on the windows proclaims: Have A Very Sexy Christmas.
The landlord (that we've been fighting with to put a lock on the front entrance) has placed a green plastic wreath on that door.
The office-workers are listening for rumors about their Christmas bonuses.
The CIA is sending Christmas dinners to secret inquisitions drops overseas.
In the old days - He drove the money-changers and merchants out of the temple. Now He returns to find that the entire economy of the country is based on his birthday. He finds everything from underwear to electric screwdrivers being sold in his name.
So He stands on the corner of 59th and Park Avenue and begins to rail out against how his name has been commercialized. He still has his old clothes on, and looks somewhat scruffy. The local cops aren't even sure what language he's speaking but it sounds like something middle-eastern. Definitely not English. No identification. He has picked up a few words and he's apparantly angry about Christmas. Angry about Christmas? Foreign? Could be a terrorist. Better check him out.
New York's Finest pick him up and notify the FBI.
He's brought in for questioning.
Next thing he knows, he's on a plane headed for a secret drop point in Jordan. At first he thinks he's being taken back to his birthplace, only to find himself deposited in a small cell where he's pumped with drugs.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch - there's a big brouhahah in D.C. about whether they've got a Christmas tree or a holiday tree in front of the White House and whether or not Pres. Bush can say "Merry Christmas" in his greeting cards or not.
Oh the point. If there is one. If Jesus ever did re-appear he'd probably just get himself into trouble again. He'd be denounced by the Christian right. He'd be seen as anti-American. And before you knew it - he'd be out of the way. I don't think he'd be allowed to be martyred again. Just disappeared.
12/07/2005
John Lennon
Should I go out to the John Lennon thing tomorrow at Strawberry Fields. Starts so late: 10:52 p.m. or something like that (time he was killed). Is it going to be snowing? I'm getting lazy. Plus there's some talk that the park authorities are going to close the park at one a.m. and the fans may want to stay longer. Guess I'll play it by ear. Or play it by fatigue factor. This has been a long couple of weeks. If I go - than it'll be Tri-x in Microphen at 1600 all the way.
Cat, Factory Window
Have you ever tried to photograph a feral cat with a view camera? This is from a 4 x 5 negative. The cat crawled out from the rusted hole in the factory and sat there watching me long enough for to get one shot, then turned and jumped back into the factory. The right eye is bright and curious, but the left eye is wounded.
12/06/2005
Grand Canyon
At the end of the day, after matting and printing all day, I get to do a new scan for myself. This is another 4 x 5 shot. The 4990 is really working out well. I could do some close crops and all that but I don't have time. In this shot, the scanner picked up quite a bit of detail in these shadows.
New Mat Order
Just got sick of cutting mats, and John C. had mentioned
http://stu-artsupplies.com/
Called them. Spoke with a person. And I ordered Museum 4-ply beveled (custom cut opening) with 2-ply backing. They ship next day. And it's at least half the price - maybe more - of Light Impressions. Let's see how it goes.
John, the mats you mentioned in your e-mail are really cheap, but they are not bevelled opening (die cut). But at their prices I may finally be able to stop all this damned cutting which is getting on my nerves.
http://stu-artsupplies.com/
Called them. Spoke with a person. And I ordered Museum 4-ply beveled (custom cut opening) with 2-ply backing. They ship next day. And it's at least half the price - maybe more - of Light Impressions. Let's see how it goes.
John, the mats you mentioned in your e-mail are really cheap, but they are not bevelled opening (die cut). But at their prices I may finally be able to stop all this damned cutting which is getting on my nerves.
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