Comments on akhavinsky: My wife just flashed me

I LOVE YOU!As well as being a dumbass ^_^<3

2008-04-11T18:53:00.000-07:00

I LOVE YOU!

As well as being a dumbass ^_^

<3

We just put up our "be like everyone else" wedding...

2008-04-09T07:49:00.000-07:00

We just put up our "be like everyone else" wedding/portraits/kids blog off of our site if you're interested:

Buffalo Wedding Photography

Ahem, let me shamelessly increase my page rank on your blog....

I have already wet myself - RSS subscribed I am.

2008-03-28T12:41:00.000-07:00

I have already wet myself - RSS subscribed I am.

i'm excited. might need to jerk off now.

2008-03-20T08:26:00.000-07:00

i'm excited. might need to jerk off now.

I agree with your point of view Keith. Nobody is a...

2008-03-20T03:03:00.000-07:00

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)

Dear Keith,Well it is very warming to finally see ...

2008-03-19T15:28:00.000-07:00

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

arno:I can do that.When I taught in University I h...

2008-03-19T12:38:00.000-07:00

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.

Well maybe you start of with a few silver gelatin ...

2008-03-19T12:07:00.000-07:00

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?