I forgot to mention that the fall semester has started up again at ICP, and once again, I'm assisting (TAing) photo I in Black and White. It's going ok so far, although I've been strangely tuckered out at the end of each class. I'm feeling like this is atypical, but who knows.
I'm also hopefully going to be branching out into the world of digital printing a bit more. Somehow the dayjob agreed to pay for a class in ink-jet printing, which I've always thought I needed to learn more about. The editions of the books I've made in the past have always been done with inkjet, but there's definitely more I need to learn about inks, papers, and... ok, inks and papers.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Windows and Lazy Light; Trees Kill Telephone Pole
These are daylight pictures from a weird twilight in Ann Arbor. I started out with the thought of the Trees Fighting Zombie Trees (Telephone Poles) in my head, although, and unsurprisingly, that isn't doing a very good job of describing what I'm making with these projects. I guess it's more about how trees interact with the infrastructure of humanity, telephone poles, roads, roadsigns, cars.
The first two are of lights coming into windows, a specific kind of late afternoon suburban shadow, and that feeling of reading on a summer afternoon when things all of a sudden start to look black and white.
The first two are of lights coming into windows, a specific kind of late afternoon suburban shadow, and that feeling of reading on a summer afternoon when things all of a sudden start to look black and white.
Monday, October 17, 2005
Dark Rural Lights
The end of summer scan-athon continues. Here are the images from summer trips to North Carolina and back home to Michigan. I had some trouble with these weird cyan lights people seem to use a lot more not in New York, that seem to be recorded as immutably cyan, no matter what color filtration I'm using while I'm printing. My guess would be that it has something to do with full spectrum fluorescents or that my Fuji NPS 160 really isn't made for night photography, and the colors are shifting all over the place, but I'm not as much an expert on my film as I really should be.
I've also given up on trying to fix my scans beyond the barest of level correction, since my current set-up is so shitty and I don't have access to a 4x5 negative scanner. It just didn't seem like it was worth it trying to get rid of stuff like scratches that were on the contact printer glass, or dust, when I'm scanning prints on a cheap flatbed.
Otherwise, these pictures are a continuation of looking at the suburban nightscape. These are a little blacker than usual, which is something I've been looking at a little bit when I'm printing; just giving up on some shadows and aiming for a deep inky black. We'll see how I end up feeling about this.
I've also given up on trying to fix my scans beyond the barest of level correction, since my current set-up is so shitty and I don't have access to a 4x5 negative scanner. It just didn't seem like it was worth it trying to get rid of stuff like scratches that were on the contact printer glass, or dust, when I'm scanning prints on a cheap flatbed.
Otherwise, these pictures are a continuation of looking at the suburban nightscape. These are a little blacker than usual, which is something I've been looking at a little bit when I'm printing; just giving up on some shadows and aiming for a deep inky black. We'll see how I end up feeling about this.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Summer Work
Here are the beginnings of the huge stack of contact prints from over the summer. I think this isn't quite chronological, but they're from near the beginning. I'll probably scan the pictures from outside of New York first, and then get to those later.
I have quite a few more 4x5 prints to make, and then I'll need to start scanning the medium format car window pictures, which I'm feeling like are becoming something interesting, although there's still a lot of editing to do.
These pictures specifically are from weekend trips to the Jersey Shore, Vermont, and LA. Shooting on vacation isn't terribly disciplined, but sometimes the results are ok. In particular, I think the LA picture is going to be something I'll be able to use.
I have quite a few more 4x5 prints to make, and then I'll need to start scanning the medium format car window pictures, which I'm feeling like are becoming something interesting, although there's still a lot of editing to do.
These pictures specifically are from weekend trips to the Jersey Shore, Vermont, and LA. Shooting on vacation isn't terribly disciplined, but sometimes the results are ok. In particular, I think the LA picture is going to be something I'll be able to use.
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