Loving these videos. Philip Perkis told me to keep printing simple . Do them straight, like you are here. Had me make the same print 50 times a day, as a practice and lesson. If you haven’t seen his work, check it out.
@@asa1000photography his late work is more quiet work than very active documentation of people. Unfortunately when I last spoke to him on the phone, he could no longer see. He had a type of stroke in his eyes and it made him blind. A retrospective book on his work called “the sadness of men”, is still available. And there is also a documentary movie on him at his home, on Vimeo It is called “just to see - a mystery”
Hi, great moments captured. Very fine prints. Question: (and ok, so you maybe used a flash.. I ain't tellin' =) How did you meter this? Not spot metering I'm guessing. Just the camera light meter? Or, perhaps, a Weston meter for the average light? HP5? The grain seems so perfect. Keep it coming please
Flash metering was for studio work! This was just using a known combination of light and distance. It's hard to remember the exact details but most probably an FM2 camera since the flash mount on the F3 was so crappy and the FM2 had a 1/250 flash sync vs the 1/60 for the F3. And I'd guess F 3.5 or 2.8 aperture. The flash I used was a Vivitar 285 or maybe the one that came later, on camera, with a Quantum Battery on my belt and either a diffusion 'hat' on the flash or often just reflected off a white card. The flash was usually set on the highest setting or on Manual. I could get decent negs at 40 feet that way and with the extra battery I could shoot with the motor drive for sports. I pretty much developed for detail ion the the shadows and printed through the highlites when I had to! The grain looks smooth because the enlarger is LED with lots of diffusion glass.
Two days and a morning! On a good day I can print 7 to 10 'keepers'. It seems like I work 8am to 2 or 3 and then the prints wash for 45 minutes or more, I squeeze them and put them on the screen overnight. In the morning I flatten them in the press and then go dark. Three days is a good cycle for chemistry.
You make a great point,
Keep your eyes open.
Right down to the small details "Watch here when I reset my timer, I use the back of my finger"
Buon lavoro
Loving these videos. Philip Perkis told me to keep printing simple . Do them straight, like you are here. Had me make the same print 50 times a day, as a practice and lesson.
If you haven’t seen his work, check it out.
I will check him out. Thanks! There is always time to learn something new.
@@asa1000photography his late work is more quiet work than very active documentation of people. Unfortunately when I last spoke to him on the phone, he could no longer see. He had a type of stroke
in his eyes and it made him blind. A retrospective book on his work called “the sadness of men”, is still available. And there is also a documentary movie on him at his home, on Vimeo
It is called “just to see - a mystery”
Thanks. Now I have looked at some of his work his history and the story about his vision loss. Pretty impressive guy!@@nickfanzo
@@asa1000photography yes he is a very nice man, and a wealth of photography knowledge .
Hi, great moments captured. Very fine prints.
Question: (and ok, so you maybe used a flash.. I ain't tellin' =)
How did you meter this? Not spot metering I'm guessing. Just the camera light meter? Or, perhaps, a Weston meter for the average light? HP5? The grain seems so perfect.
Keep it coming please
Flash metering was for studio work! This was just using a known combination of light and distance. It's hard to remember the exact details but most probably an FM2 camera since the flash mount on the F3 was so crappy and the FM2 had a 1/250 flash sync vs the 1/60 for the F3. And I'd guess F 3.5 or 2.8 aperture. The flash I used was a Vivitar 285 or maybe the one that came later, on camera, with a Quantum Battery on my belt and either a diffusion 'hat' on the flash or often just reflected off a white card. The flash was usually set on the highest setting or on Manual. I could get decent negs at 40 feet that way and with the extra battery I could shoot with the motor drive for sports. I pretty much developed for detail ion the the shadows and printed through the highlites when I had to! The grain looks smooth because the enlarger is LED with lots of diffusion glass.
@@asa1000photography most excellent . Thank you.
Thanks for sharing! Great story.How long did it take you to print all those pictures?
Two days and a morning! On a good day I can print 7 to 10 'keepers'. It seems like I work 8am to 2 or 3 and then the prints wash for 45 minutes or more, I squeeze them and put them on the screen overnight. In the morning I flatten them in the press and then go dark. Three days is a good cycle for chemistry.
Love your work! We'd like to collaborate, how can we get in touch? :)
Well here I am!! What do you have in mind
@@asa1000photography May we have your email to send over the details? :)