Category: The Negative

Film. What about it?

film friday: 9/1

Posted on Posted in labnotes, overnight notes, Prints, the Lab, The Negative

Much is said about masks. This is what one looks like. Thin, blurry piece of film.

What to get for a retouching text — these are from last century. Reed’s is the key reference to have.

tools of the trade: Dye Transfer lab. some early essentials.

  • densiguide instead of densitometer
  • diffusion sheets
  • Kodak 5x Achromatic magnifier.. to align masks as you tape them
  • Kodak transparency Q card. This is the hardest to locate these days. They can be made. Sometime I will /have posted how.

from Brokaw’s section of E-81, Kodak’s unpublished, last dye transfer guide, written and edited by Frank McLaughlin. The first materials written about Dye Transfer came from those in their lab. Later materials, E-80 were written by market support staff, including Frank McLaughlin. The last time materials were updated, Mr. McLaughlin arranged for an updated manual to be written by many members of the dye transfer community.

Dennis Brokaw : Large Format Separations for Dye Transfer Printing

<<–This is his supply list.

Mr Brokaw was cited by Forumatti Wiley as a credential for Drew’s powers of photography.

Waybacking the process:

Exposure Self

Posted on Posted in creativity, The Negative

if just the re-production of the scene, fully, accurately, then pure mechanics it is a technical process subject to the rules and laws of technology and economics – not the domain of an artist.

made by an engineer not an artist. without the artist, there is no art

// surrendering a position. no longer an exalted original, valuable venerated  genius

/ rather, a diligent worker decorating the vacation homes of the idle.

  • outline:
  • —HD and art
  • — mortenson negative
  • —ansel’s acolytes. measuring themselves.
  • — digital hate. too easy. it exposes. 
  • — cellphone so easy all about the selfie
  • art is supposed to be difficult. process is conflict conversation. >>?? 

[overnight notes from a year ago] [maybe I’ll fill them in]