Re: Pinhole gums
Thanks, Marek.... I've always wondered how well a digital camera
would work for pinhole; obviously the answer is, it works pretty
great. And I'll echo in on other comments about the abstract nature
of these: I love them for the pure areas and shapes of colors,
without caring too much what the actual subject is.
k
On Nov 30, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Marek Matusz wrote:
Well,
I have a little confession. The pinholes were digital. I just
removed the lens from my Canon 10D and placed one of those pinholes
that goes back 10 years or more from the time I made pinhole
pictures on film The actual pinhole was about 0.2 mm from my 8x10
pinhole camera. It is mounted on a filter ring. I wish I could get
closer to the sensor, but the mirror stands in the way.
Marek
> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:08:17 -0800
> From: kthayer@pacifier.com
> Subject: Re: Pinhole gums
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
>
> Well, just between you and me :--) I wouldn't have gone to so much
> trouble if I hadn't believed that the thumbnail for the series was a
> tricolor gum print. I really wanted to see it in a bigger size; I
> loved the rich color in combination with the very subtle shadings.
> I was really quite disappointed to find in the end that that was the
> original photograph not the tricolor gum print, which was quite
> different in character. There was another set where the tricolor
> gum was actually quite true to the original, but that wasn't the one
> I was most interested in. Always the contrarian....
>
> But as I said, I'm glad I got to see the other recent series as
> well. I was quite taken with the CMY series; whatever you're doing
> with those, it's working, is all I can say about that.
>
> I gather the film was a color slide film? I once tried making
> pinhole images on color negative film, in a pinhole camera I made
> from a 35mm camera body. I found I couldn't make decent color
> separations from them for gum printing, because the pinhole exposure
> seemed to introduce color noise on the film that was exacerbated by
> my 35mm film scanner, which always had a problem with noise anyway,
> and I just couldn't get the noise out of the images enough to make a
> decent color gum print from it. But this was way back 15 years ago
> or so, I don't know if I could do a better job cleaning it up now.
> It's lovely to see your smooth rich tones in comparison.
>
> Thanks again for posting those,
> Katharine
>
>
> On Nov 29, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Marek Matusz wrote:
>
> > Now that's dedication.
> > Maybe it would be easier to download pictures. This way you can
> > look at them side by side or come back later
> > The constant battle of upgrades!
> > Marek
> >
> > > Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:30:01 -0800
> > > From: kthayer@pacifier.com
> > > Subject: Re: Pinhole gums
> > > To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> > >
> > > Wow. :--) Well, first I want you to know what all I went
through to
> > > see these. First, I found a copy of Internet Explorer on my hard
> > > drive and opened that and gave it the URL. It worked a long long
> > > time, telling me as it went what it was doing, transferring
things
> > > from one place to another and so forth, but when it said it was
> > done,
> > > all it gave me was a blank page. This blank page was blue,
and it
> > > didn't have the tabs at the top, like for Marek's gallery, so I
> > > couldn't even see the one thumbnail for each series, as I can
with
> > > Safari.
> > >
> > > Then I went and downloaded Firefox. The download took 57
minutes.
> > > Now, with Firefox, I get blank spots for the thumbnails and
can't
> > > get anything if I click on them, but I do have the Slide Show
option
> > > available to me with this browser, and if I click on that I can
> > > watch the images going by in the slide show. They are mostly
quite
> > > pixelated at first, but if I let the show go on long enough
(20-30
> > > minutes) they get more better.
> > >
> > > It doesn't seem like this should be so hard.
> > >
> > > Anyway, in spite of all my whining, I'm glad to see these, as
> > well as
> > > the last few series you've posted that I haven't been able to
see
> > > before. Maybe some comments in a bit, but first I need to go
check
> > > on a print I've been neglecting while I've been engrossed in
this.
> > > Later,
> > > Katharine
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Nov 29, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Marek Matusz wrote:
> > >
> > > > Wow
> > > > It has been so quiet on the list that I decided to post some
> > > > pictures printed over the holidays. They are gum prints
made from
> > > > pinhole photographs. I have done the worst thing by posting
the
> > > > originals as well, but maybe it will create some discussion
> > > > Marek
> > > > http://picasaweb.google.com/marekmatusz1/
> > > > TricolorGumBichromatePinholePhotographs#
> > > >
> > > >
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