RE: New work.

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From: Christopher Lovenguth (chrisml@pacbell.net)
Date: 10/17/03-09:56:55 AM Z

I actually have it down to 25-35 sec exposures. I (or my subject) am usually
braced up against something when I'm taking my image. I'm using an old
barrel lens with no shutter that I'm guessing is around F5.6 - F3.4 I don't
know what the exact F-stop is. Since I'm using an old speed graphic press
camera, instead of my huge and heavy Calumet 8x10, I cannot get close enough
to my subjects with my bellows. I have found a clever (clever for me at
least) way around this. Long ago I bought some filter close up lenses (I
don't really know what they are called). They are a nice size (filter size
67) and they are the type where you have three separate lenses labeled 1-3
that stack on top of each other. Long story short, I have taken the front
element off my old barrel lens, found some step up rings to fit the front of
the barrel lens (which is a size 49), and now use these filters, usually
number 1 and number 2 together, as my front element. I can get quite close
on my subjects, especially when I use all three elements, and it seems that
my exposure time is less.

-Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Agustin [mailto:abarrutia@velocom.com.ar]
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 12:59 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: New work.

Thanks Christopher for the details. So using iodine in full blue skylight
would require quite long exposures. How did you manage to make those
portaits?.

Good luck!

Agustin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Lovenguth" <chrisml@pacbell.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 12:19 AM
Subject: RE: New work.

> I used the iodine only Becquerel process. My subjects are in full blue (no
> clouds) sky from around 11am-2pm. I'm processing in rubylith out in the
sun
> for at least 2 hours.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Agustin [mailto:abarrutia@velocom.com.ar]
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:11 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: New work.
>
> Beautiful Christopher.
>
> What process did you use?. Just iodine, or iodine/bromine
sensibilization?.
> Mercury development or bequerel?. What light source?. Sun, or artificial
> lighting?.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Agustin Barrutia,
> Buenos Aires, Argentina.
>

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