Yeah, I have a blog
I also moved to Henderson, Nevada for a spell, to have my wife meet my mother and father, and then who knows!
Since my wife is designing my website, it may take some time to complete, so in the meantime I have set up this blog to sit in till it's finished. I know my site has been down for idno...40 years, but it is a complicated process since my professional work is vastly different from my personality and my personal work and so forth. It is a fine balance to create a site that would be functional for me, since my clients prefer face to face presentation.
BUT, Katie is designing away, and someday soon I will have it up, chop full of fun tutorials and exciting porno.
Just remember, the work I do is not cheap, so if you are looking forward to a tutorial on something exciting like a plate or oil transfer, you should be ready to spend money.
On this blog I will also post our travels and some culinary adventures, and maybe recipes!
Let me know if there is something I should post here, maybe I'll do it.
-k
8 comments:
Well maybe you start of with a few silver gelatin print tutorials, I think everybody should be able to manage this and then move on to more complicated (and expensive) stuff. The problem with a lot of these printing techniques is, that you need large format negatives, so maybe you also handle this problem, or is it generally stupid to enlarge 35mm negs with a transfer?
arno:
I can do that.
When I taught in University I hated the aspect of handing someone a process that puts zero emphasis on them coming up with their own process.
I mean, what is the point of learning it if you can't break down how it's accomplished?
I don't know, teaching really jaded my opinion about the willingness of people to teach themselves, but I think a good foundation SHOULD be taught.
I can come up with some processes I've learned for standard silver prints. I think most people need to learn everything about printing, before they print, because most learn on resin coated shit paper with shit chemistry in a shitty darkroom. Surrounding yourself with the best tools makes making that perfect print...easy?
You can create a large negative in many different ways, not just by using transfers or reproductions, many now print negatives on special gel or cell paper on printers! I have a couple ways to do it, most of them involve reshooting on larger negative or transfer, but I do print negatives too.
Dear Keith,
Well it is very warming to finally see a landing for your work. Dr. Saunder had emailed me this afternoon and I couldn't believe it, had to see it for myself.
I do hope to finally meet the one who stole your heart, we had spoken on many occasions of how work swallowed your social life, so please do stop by Chicago and have us meet Mrs. Franke.
Take care, hope this finds you well, will stay tuned for more.
Sarah
I agree with your point of view Keith. Nobody is a master printer from the beginning, somewhere he has to learn the basics.
The point might be what these basics actually are, but I'm not in the position to give a qualified answer here, that's for sure up to you.
Then even if I have a lot of ideas, they might look fine, but if I know the basics of printing, I might try them with a different attitude and I'm quite sure this will result in a better outcome.
So maybe the same things you teach Katie, will be of importance for most of us, then I think 90% of your visitors (who know what a darkroom is) learned printing on their own.
Well maybe you can handle this topic about 35mm negs in a post. Displaying different approaches and such stuff.
One last idea, maybe you could also give some kind of literature list (like Adams "The print").
I don't know if you can use some kind of help with all that. For sure I can't help with all the printing stuff, I'm here to learn, but for webprogramming (php, html..) I might be able to help you. (contact see dA page)
i'm excited. might need to jerk off now.
I have already wet myself - RSS subscribed I am.
We just put up our "be like everyone else" wedding/portraits/kids blog off of our site if you're interested:
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I LOVE YOU!
As well as being a dumbass ^_^
<3
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