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When is a Hat Box NOT a Hat Box? When it’s a Beauty Dish Case!
If you are looking for a case for your beauty dish between 17″ and 20″ in diameter, I can wholeheartedly recommend this “collapsible hat box”. Made of the same rugged material as a good camera bag, it has dual zippers, … Continue reading
It’s All About the Print
Digital photography has created a generation photographers who’s final product, for the most part, is viewed on an illuminated screen. This might be a monitor, either computer or TV, a tablet or even a phone. Soon it’ll be a watch … Continue reading
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Tagged analog photography, Black and White, color printing, digital photography
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Creating a Great Scan = Printing the Unprintable
After years of creating 8X10″ black and white contact prints, I am generally able to look at a negative and, after a quick inspection, decide if it’s going to be a struggle or not to create a quality print. Using … Continue reading
My 8X10″ Negative Conversions: UPDATE 2 / Epson Scanner Has Arrived
This is the third installment documenting the conversion of my black and white film negatives, of which the majority are 8X10″ format, to digital files. I started off this process searching for an inexpensive method that would provide a usable … Continue reading
My 8X10″ Negative Conversions: UPDATE
Today I purchased an Epson V700 flatbed scanner. Why you ask? After all, I was thrilled with the progress I was making by merely producing files by taking pictures of the negatives on a homemade light box with my Fujifilm … Continue reading
Conversion to Digital Files Part II
Now that my 8X10″ black and white negatives have been converted to RAW files as outlined in my previous blog, I can say without hesitation, that was the best 8 bucks (for the plexiglass, again, just read the previous blog … Continue reading
Analog to Digital Conversion on the Cheap
The other day I pulled out my archive of 8X10″ black and white negatives. I have not had them unsealed in almost 15 years. The best images were printed on AZO paper and, using archival processes, dry mounted and matted … Continue reading
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Tagged 8X10", analog photography, AZO, Black and White, digital photography, Epson, Fujifilm, LightRoom, Reproductions, Tonal Control, X-E2
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A Tool, A Crutch or a Gimmick?
If you look at a photograph and notice the technique first, and the image second, I think you are looking at something that was produced using a gimmick or a crutch. Continue reading
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Tagged analog photography, Ansel Admans, Black and White, digital photography, Landscape, LightRoom, NIK Software, Photoshop
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Old Dog New Tricks
It’s been a long time since I made 8X10 inch contact prints using Kodak AZO paper. So long in fact, I had forgotten the beautiful finish it provided to the final image. Like so many of us, I have converted … Continue reading
I am a Digital Photographer….There, I said it!
It’s been about a month, maybe a bit more since I made the switch from DSLR to Mirror-Less, and I haven’t looked back. Sure, every once in awhile I pick up my Nikon D200 and, with a melancholy feeling wonder … Continue reading
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Tagged 8X10", analog photography, Black and White, digital photography, Hybrid, Nikon D200, T-Max film, Wista
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