I guess it's better to be nuggets in the mud than dust in the wind. On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:06 AM, <eactiv...@aol.com> wrote: > Learned more about Ansel Adams in the last week than I knew before. > > Though I did learn about him doing color previously on this list sometime > in the past. And, since I mainly do color, I looked around and found a book > of his color photos and have had it for quite a while. > > Been very interesting. This kind of stuff is why I hang around here now > and then. Often the cranky stuff is really hard to get past, but there are > nuggets among the mud, like this, that sometimes make it worth while. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > In a message dated 4/18/2013 6:13:56 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > pixelsmi...@gmail.com writes: > I don't think there is any question that if Ansel Adams were still > alive that he would have embraced digital. But I think he would have > been drawn to producing large inkjet negatives for contact printing on > traditional silver papers (what today is called "hybrid" photography). > The dodging and burning he used to do on the paper, would be done in > post-processing of the digital file to produce the best inkjet digital > negative. In today's resurgence of interest in film photography, and > even large format film photography, he would probably be a huge > workshop presenter - doing a lot of the traditional things he has > always done. > > In the dedication of his Portfolio VII, written in May of 1976, he > said the following: > "I am both pleased and honored to have worked through more than half a > century in the world of photography, and to have observed its > ever-expanding potential as a medium of expression and communication. > The original Polaroid Land print in this portfolio represents for me a > voyage into the future. New aspects of seeing, new means of > communication, new qualities of image and new levels of subjective and > intellectual comprehension lie ahead. While I have always worked with > fairly conventional means and techniques, I anticipate new departures > which, if I cannot examine them in my lifetime, will assure the power > of future vision and accomplishment." > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> > wrote: >> All transparencies. But anything that was printed was first exposed to a > pre-fogged sheet of color neg, or, using special color neg material from > Kodak. The pre-fogging worked better. >> >> I was tasked with making prints from 35mm color Kodachrome and > Ektachrome slides that Weston's sons brought into the lab where I worked > nights > while attending college, Jones Photocolor. I didn't do them all, but I was > taught by the owner how to use the enlarger to pre-fog a sheet of 5x7 neg > material before I placed the carrier with the slide in. Once those 5x7 sheets > were processed and checked, they were placed in either our 5x7 Elmer vertical > enlarger for up to 20x24 prints or our custom horizontal (on rails in a > large room) enlarger for the 40x60 prints for museums or shows. >> >> In some cases, we exposed transparency film for airport backlit > billboards for Wells Fargo and a few airlines. 45" wide by 30' long film > tacked up > to the wall in the dark using taped on plastic guides, one sheet at a time. > That was all we could process at a time on our Holtzmueller drum > processor. It had to be accurate enough and properly replenished so each roll > matched exactly once they were hung. Someone else did the trimming and edge > reinforcements for display. >> >> More fun! >> >> >> On Apr 16, 2013, at 13:41 , John Sessoms wrote: >> >>> Perhaps even more so, as I'm pretty sure most of his color photography > was made with Kodachrome. Anyone know of work Adams did with color > negative film? >>> >>> I don't, but if there is, I'd appreciate a link. >> >> >> >> Joseph McAllister >> Too much gear, not much time >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > > -- > "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - > Peter Galassi > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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