Tag: large format

If you didn't work today

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if the canvas stared you down, the pencil wasn’t sharp enough, you couldn’t shoot cause you spent time shopping, or gossiping on the forums, it is time to reconsider this:

maybe you just don’t have it in you.

it isn’t that there is nothing left to do, just that you aren’t the one to say it.
when you look for others for answers, they will never fulfill, never fit.

you have to catch your own to be satisfied

It isn’t that there is nothing left to do, it is that you don’t have the need to do it. You can be satisfied by other means

Mark Citret: One Method

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have nothing to say

when you can’t say much, are struggling to find something meaningful about second rate art collection; call it “world class,” and pray that no one cares anyway.

Rodinal– Polyfiber A — Sterling Semi-Gloss VC

Mark Citret uses Sinar Norma, and Toyo VX125 4×5 view cameras. TheNorma is stable, however the Toyo is lighter. His basic set of four: a 72mm SuperAngulon XL, a 110mm SuperSymmar XL, a 180mm Fujinon W and a 300mm Fujinon C. Mounted on smaller Linof lens boards reducing bag space.

He (1999) uses T-MAX 100 film in 4×5 Readyloads and develops the film using a 1:49 dilution of Agfa Rodinal with nine minutes duration for normal development, and a 1:149 dilution at 12 minutes for his “-3 development.” 

Printing: Kodak Polyfiber A paper with a special toning process of his own invention to make his “vellum” prints for gallery work; because there is a limited supply of the Polyfiber paper, he makes his first prints on Sterling Semi-Gloss VC paper; selenium & sepia toned.