----- Original Message ----- Subject: Re: The Great PDML Print Off
> What's the process for putting the portfolios together? It seems that > each participant would make six prints, one for each portfolio, and that > the prints would be sent to one person, compiled, and then sent out for > distribution as complete sets of eighteen. Is that how you all see it? Once again, here is the deal: Here are the (suggested) guidelines: 1) I will produce a series of negatives, as close as is possible to each other in exposure and processing (I can get REALLY close, I am pretty good at this stuff), and mail each participant a negative. 2) The negative remains the property of me, and is considered "on loan" for the duration of the challenge. Copyright of any images made from this negative remain property of William Robb, Regina, Canada. 3) When you recieve the negative in the mail, please acknowledge reciept of it to me via email, and then make the best prints you can. All criteria other than paper size are the decision of the printer, the idea is to see how other people decide how to print a negative. 4) For the sake of uniformity, all prints shall be made on 8x10 inch paper, unmounted. Prints shall be by traditional darkroom methods. 5) Please write your name on the back of your prints, for identification purposes. 6) After you have created your print, please ship the negative and the finished print to me. I will keep track of things until I have recieved all the prints. 7) At that point, I will scan them and put them on a web page, and also make the entire set available for distribution to participants so we can see what we have done. My home address is on the envelopes containing the negatives. Please ship your 6 prints back to me. I will compile the portfolios and ship them out. Now, how to distribute them after that? To make sure everyone gets a fair shot at this, I need to have the prints back in a reasonable amount of time. Please, get at the task of printing as soon as possible after you recieve the negative. Here is the list of participants, and how I have determined groups for each portfolio. If it would make more sense to have them grouped otherwise, I am open to suggestion. What I will do is provide forwarding addresses to each participant when I send out the portfolio. You will be responsible for making notes for discussion, and mailing it on to the next person on the list. Again, try to make the time you keep the portfolio in your possession reasonable, as we want everyone to get a look at it. After we have all had a look, I ask that the prints be returned to me. If there is interest from non printing members of the PDML to have a look at a portfolio, I will make them available to list members, perhaps having them shipped directly from the last printer on the list to a list member. Shel Belinkoff California USA William Johnson Utah USA Bill D. Casselberry Oregon USA --------------------- Paul Stenquist Michigan USA Ed Matthew Indiana USA Jim Meeks Oklahoma USA ------------------------- Tom van Veen Virginia USA Bob Poe South Carolina USA Collin Brendemuehl Ohio USA Sid Barras Louisiana USA ------------------------ Paul Jones Australia John Coyle Australia -------------------------- Steve Cottrell United kingdom Alan Abbott England Maciej Marchlewski Poland ------------------------- Brendan Bhagan Canada Aaron Reynolds Canada William Robb Canada - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
