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Showing Prints on the Web

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Beginning printers learn by coordinating their eye and hand, by looking at more things, until they can make assessments of greater abstraction, ie, things removed, even remote, from the origin object. With skill, you see the tree not the print — do this enough and you will see the print as you look at the mountain… The representation of an image may serve as mnemonic, even as illustration to other visualizers. A common grounding; a touchstone needn’t be stonehenge. The self aware growing their visual mindscape. Certainly making a point in the Web2 world can be made with an illustration.

While a “print” can’t be shown over the wire, it can be transmitted, even understood; understood well enough that Telemedicine works.

craft doesn’t have to limit, nor does conversation have to be limited to craft 
“The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Proust

It was commonplace to teach by way of slides. I used it as supporting background teaching dye transfer. Additionally, I was able to demonstrate differences in filtration methods in making Type C prints. Side by side on the same slide. Humans capable of making art are quite apt at understanding comparisons. We see in relationships. For absolutes we need a machine. Our eye is the bundle of the revealed brain.

One use of the cellshot is a record, a timestamp of that “light”

You Don’t Show, not even as illustration because:

  • don’t have
  • embarrassed by what have
  • don’t know how to show
  • afraid [you/ someone] will steal
  • don’t care about your opinion
  • [why expend so much effort claiming a ‘one true’ way] Even the emoji using redundant engineer. I assume he didn’t study physics, or isn’t interested in current “frame” meanings.

Can I show more using the ‘net? Is electronic imagery more flexible? Can you, using chemical means, balance the curve differences of color (RA4) paper? Not without recourse to multiple colored masks. An almost triiavl task for intermediate skilled digital based retoucher/printer. A well managed system provides immediate soft=proof.

Assessing the Mentor:

said / meant

I’ve never taken a photograph with my cellphone.  [i’m not good enough photographer to use the simple tool, to make memorable or useful picture]

Prepaid cell offering less coverage in remote locations. Still, makes a great retort of comfort to those steeped in creating a nearer to Thee legend.

An underdeveloped visual mind is terrible thing to brag about.

Their safety concern– how deep is their ocean?

  • ” I have only a cell phone for emergency roadside need.”
  • “I have never taken a picture with one [MEANING: so he can’t show you anything he has or has seen.]”
  • ” Besides, even the cell phone selfie phonies couldn’t get reception at the beautiful points in my recent travel.”

If you carry the phone for emergency roadside use… and there is no reception…. your life lessons may be flawed. Not the best guide; not a skilled map-maker.

The logicians involved are retired very active forum posters. One, an aerospace engineer who was retired at 55; the other an order processor at a softwoods shop. He retired in his late 60s; clearly more critical in job function than the redundant engineer.

They would have you follow their advice, (why they give it so often) that a cell phone is only good for roadside emergency — even where there is not service[?]. Lacking cell service, the supposed phone provides recording features, alas, not of use for these cellular phonies. Perhaps they mean they have a satellite phone. Good for them.

SALSA: “Theocratic approach has no place..” Feb 15, 2016 Updated Aug 4, 2017  \\North Conway
NOTE: use the word as defined [relating to or denoting a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.] ex: Vatican.

Behind their legend: in one case, mystery permits changing his story to fit the need for boasting of skills. In showing nothing, he lets you imagine him more capable than he is; more productive than he ever was.

Reasons for maintaining their legend:

  • they are embarrassed by what they have
  • they don’t have what they claim
  • maybe lack skill of translation

Skill types… the reason for craft is translation. Good to see your work is well regarded.

Exposure. Composition. Using the meter and following the measure of 18th century drawing rooms has a simple reward. Just not up to meeting on the majors stage

You must know where to show. Certainly the large, long-lived photo forums lack the shared background for worthwhile exchange. As well, they fail at being able to exchange craft information.

Perhaps they have stalled in all roads of their life — the roadside service has no on-ramp ramp

Tip toe through the tall tale

You can’t show on the Internet, you can’t evaluate a photograph, yet he didn’t like the prints, the photographs only seen on the Internet .
 That web fight was between Drew, Kirk Gittings,& Bob Carnie over print quality.

once this was pointed out to him, once it was pointed out to others that he had a website, within weeks his “own” website was taken down — chose to no longer show on the internet.

An RA4 List

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Printing color in a darkroom can be achieved using either “white light” or “tricolor” means. The color paper and enlarger (exposing) light system are “balanced” when they are not introducing color balance shifts. As balance is achieved, the print color is determined by the color negative.

General pathways to color photography are:

  • Assembly — the image is built a layer at a time. These are processes such as the pigment processes of Carbon, or Gum. Also, the dye transfer process is an assembly process.
  • Integral — the way of most color printing. The manufacturer provides the pre-made emulsion system in which all the layers are included at coating time. These are the color films such as Ektar, or Provia. The positive, the print portion of the CN method, C-41 –> RA4 is made by Fujifilm. Most darkroom printers use one of the Fuji papers.

For the return readers, this update covering Carbro and Dye Transfer [Pan Matrix]

Kodak Feared Risk

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becoming Silos of Silence. The paltry military mindset.

Management became intolerant. They couldn’t take a chance. Even now, those who were in positions of influence, having product control, cannot take a small risk. They rely on the hobby crowd to answer a question of low cost, low bar knowledge.

business is people making choices. they can be courageous, self learners, able and prepared to answer big questions, or — they stumble over the obvious.

“Can a cell phone be used without a phone service?”

A question the nineteen year old sales clerk at Verizon, or Apple could answer — even demonstrate.

“Yes”

who you ask is a source of confirmation error — 

  • ask the phone co
  • maybe the phone maker
  • anonymous strangers on the analog film forum (camera counter in last century)
  • try it…

A company may owe its investors, but it is a result of its employees efforts. Silos of silence; fearing crossing the hallways, those aren’t conducive to growing imagination — the fuel of researchers.


From the 60s up until the mid-70s, it was easy to obtain technical information from deep within Kodak. It would not be unusual that answers come from the desk of an engineer, not from a marketing representative. In 1963, I was able to meet two engineers without effort; even taken on a tour of the coating of Pan Matrix Film. At the end of that meeting I was given the name of those in charge of paper making [mordanting] … No NDA sought.

The fearful employee is a weak one, making decisions based upon avoiding any risk. If the employees at management levels lack imagination, or courage, or resilience, the company will fail; capital will not save it, anymore than oxygen cures cancer.

Taking pride in your military like precision came after the 80s. Those few retired Kodak technicians remained silent, secretive long after any enforceable NDA had expired. Allegiance to the dollar; perhaps they thought they could make money off their knowledge. That didn’t happen; old knowledge is worth  old money– not much

Kodak lost the chemical race to the DuPonts, to the companies like Fujifilm that began calling themselves material sciences companies in the 70s.

Even Kodak’s “other” coating businesses continue failing; the microfilm, as well as the NDT & dental films have closed. The analog bounce has left for the instant Asia.

Japanese corporate culture strives for continuous improvement.. their silence isn’t the silence of secrecy it’s a silence of respect of all the investors if they win till one. They tell all or none ,just like the SEC requires. US culture values insider trading — values it so much, it must be hidden