Re: facial tanners for UV light?
Wow! Its great to read your words again, Jean. It has been a while.
And I think I will take your advice and buy the facial tanner for
now. I'm tracking a couple on eBay. I'm excited about making more
cyanotypes and have ordered chemicals for VDB. I think that making my
own UV light source right now would slow me down a bit. But I also
suspect I'll start building one soon in order to make larger prints
(in time).
Its really nice to hear from you and I'm looking forward to staying in
touch with you.
- Gregg
On Mar 3, 2008, at 6:01 AM, Jean Daubas wrote:
Hi Gregg !
So nice to meet you again on this list !
[sorry for adding a very personal issue but, for those who are not
familiar with the magics of tiny holes, I must say that Gregg and I
were belonging to this incredible international team of mad
pinholists who invented and founded the WPPD, Worldwide Pinhole
Photography Day, now a major annual event. That was ... 7 years ago
(2001). And Diana Bloomfield, so active on our alt process list, was
also one of these crazy pinholists ! And last year, as a curator of
a major International Camera Obscura exhibit in Besançon (France), I
had the luck to hang wonderful colour pinholes prints from Gregg...
Now back to the subject : Gregg, I really encourage you to use this
kind of facial tanners which you may find at low prices on e-bay ;
it will be very useful for you as a starter equipment (cheap,
constant, easy to use, lightweight, transportable and adapted for
small formats as 8x 10 or A4 if you have a printing frame for these
formats).
Later, when you really get addicted to alt processes, you will
probably wish to buy (so expensive !) or to buil your own UV Light
bank. That's exactly what I'm doing now, building a new UV source
with 8 x 24 " tubes (plans inspired from various ressources :
http://shutterbug.com/techniques/lighting/0900sb_howto/
http://www.eepjon.com/Ubldit.htm and http://www.eepjon.com/
faquv.htm Some tiime ago, you could find on this site an excellent
description with plans and cutting list but it seems that Jon
Edwards has now suppressed these pages. So, if you are interested ,
Gregg, just tell me off-list and I'll send you these documents.
And, as usual, my reference to Judy's unique World Journal of Post-
Factory Photography where I found a great variety of designs and
ideas for building (#6).
I bought my own "facial tanner" on e-bay 4 years ago and still use
it with a lot of satisfaction for cyanotypes, argyrotypes and gum.
Though, never tried to tan my face ;-). The model is :
"Original Philips UVA" Uv type 3 with 4 x tubes Philips TL 29D
16 / 09 N
Hope it helps,
Cheers from france,
Jean
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregg Kemp" <gregg@roanokesound.com
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To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: facial tanners for UV light?
Thanks John. Nice piece of work.
- Gregg
On Mar 2, 2008, at 11:28 AM, john@johnbrewerphotography.com wrote:
Hi Greg
This is what I use. http://www.johnbrewerphotography.com/UVunit.pdf
Hope that helps.
John.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregg Kemp [mailto:gregg@roanokesound.com]
Sent: 02 March 2008 15:54
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject: Re: facial tanners for UV light?
I have seen some low-end models for around $100.00 new and going for
around $50 on ebay. These are all four 15w bulbs.
- Gregg
Gregg Kemp
gregg@roanokesound.com
http://www.greggkemp.com
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