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Camera: 8x10 Pinhole Camera
Film: Impossible Color 8x10 (2015-09)
For Polaroid Week Fall 2015, Day 5, Photo 2.
My final contribution to the current Polaroid Week. I had lots of fun, thanks for your great photos!
Another large format portrait taken with a 5x4 view camera.
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8 X 10 pinhole, f250
30 minute exposure
arista.edu ultra 100 film, xtrol 1:1 @ 8 mins.
ilford pearl rc, contact print.
dodge, burn, ferri
My first large format experience.
Get understand if I like it better than my MF works.
Wista 4*5 with Fomapan 100 in Microphen
Gum bichromate print of the birch forest from last autumn.
View large.
Pity I misaligned the negative when printing the last, black layer… But I like it nevertheless. Gum printing has this about it: it's a very slow process that requires a lot of time and patience, and you can (easily) screw up at each step. It's easy getting frustrated - but it can also be very satisfying when you get things right.
Gum bichromate over cyanotype, four layers from one negative:
cyanotype, quinacridone magenta, burnt sienna/cadmium yellow, lamp black.
(P.S. who said you should not mix pigments when printing a layer? The sienna layer really wanted some yellow to it… or the yellow one needed some sienna, you choose… Guess purists will have a chill running down their back…)
model: www.instagram.com/lisia.dama/
Intrepid 8x10 + Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar 300/5.6
Fomapan 100@160 + Caffenol-CM(RS)
Olympic National Park
June 2017
Busch Pressman D
Kodak Ektar 127/4.7
Expired FujiPro 160S
Epson V750-M Pro
Portrait of "De boze wolf".
Cambo SC / Rodenstock Sironar 210mm f5.6 / Ilford HP5 4x5 dev in Kodak D-76 1+1
...Windsor Downs
cf 52rolls.net/2015/09/27/even-more-tiny-flowers/
Chamonix 045F1, Rodenstock Ysaron 75mm, TMax 400, stand developed PyrocatHD
leon working on the coop, fine-tuning.
he is the little blob by the ladder behind the door, adjusting.
zero image 4x5 pinhole
The font is not as Kodak have used, as this personal Dream Project is not anything official of Kodak apart from the promotional case, the cute case as I think of it, being manufactured for Kodak is the beginning and an end of Kodak involvement here. The cute case is a great inspiration that has lead me to my digital dream being projected upon Cibachrome panels in my illusion of emulsion. This has been a Pipe Dream that is longing for the past and for potential that has passed. Ektachrome continues, the other side of the aforementioned promotional cute case is red and yellow advertisement of the discontinued Kodachrome. Cibachrome is still emerging from old sheets and fresh made chemical processes I believe, but I only have memories to hand in what sometimes are slide show like interactions within my make believe visionary castles of imagination.
These Pipe Dreams on past photographic productions now unavailable has me making my memories of them wishing to invoke René Magritte and La Trahison des images, The Treachery of Images, which is often evoked with Ceci n'est pas une pipe translated as This is not a pipe. The painted representation of the pipe from 1929 cannot be stuffed said Magritte and it certainly cannot perform as does the pipe it resembles. With such dreams of images and reality, with lost production processes and notions that the Camera Never Lies I have my dreams some real, others surreal, a few definitely beyond reality and further those resting in imagination and with vision of a remembrance towards a former reality accomplished now here held in pixels that have been embraced in loving edits.
The snappy title belies the convoluted memory to digital process from a 4x5 SINAR set up out of Switzerland following formulas from there that fill my photographic contemplations. Images of images and images to last against the ravages of time are bound in my mind with Kodachrome, Cibachrome and the varying P 3 / P 3X / P 30P / P 30 P 3.5 processes. In reflection and rumination through editing I have lost and found time, thought of reality and enjoyed illusion, fantasy and fiction. This is one picture brightly produced in varying considerations, cogitations and cognations created these digital inklings that presume to be potential for a project.
I would like to add, this as much I do is Production Incarnate Preinduction Illustrate. A progress in work Inspiration for the next creation.
As the above is my usual text slide to conclude the films I release on YouTube and Flickr I will add this below so as not to use the regular ending. I feel completely engaged and absolutely ready for each next link and flow in the chain and the continuation that interlock and mind and body shock me out of, into and all around these moments. The personal interaction here in picture taking and editing has taken me to moments in history and projected me to places far beyond mystery.
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I should list a set of links in this space that could take you to that past factual information of the photographic processes here mentioned and pondered upon, but the journey awaits you whether you are new, or well along the ways of these defunct and still adored pictorial wonders that fuel current projects and enlighten dreams with fantastic rendition and fabulous colour.
Along the coast of California's Highway One there are many, many places to pull off and explore the rocks, wonder about the sea, watch for whales, seals, huge brown pelicans, and the furtive crabs. Here, the sea and rocks contend over long ages, though these are obviously rather new to the game.
One of my favorite lines from any song is when the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz sings, "Oh I, can tell you why, the ocean's near the shore..."
May you too, find your mind's eye view of mother ocean...
as an example, as I was taking this, I met another lad, scrambling around on the rocks, looking... Chris Axe apparently saw this scene in color... :)