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Which Board? => Main Forum => : Francois October 29, 2014, 03:34:20 PM
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David Benjamin Sherry - The Artist's Studio - MOCAtv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnJReMzqsG0#ws)
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Thanks Francois, I like this kind of videos showing photographers and their ways of working.
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Quite the darkroom setup. Built for another era I think.
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I found it quite funny when he says he works with his eyes closed... maybe I should try :)
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I found it quite funny when he says he works with his eyes closed... maybe I should try :)
I thought you already did going by your shots ;D
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I thought you were nicer than that... ;D
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His darkroom is bigger than my house! :o
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Just got home and watched the video and can see why he shuts his eyes now because he is using colour film
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I thought you were nicer than that... ;D
Oh Francois, Gary is an Englishman, but he sculptured his photographic forum profile in America.
This is still nice... from someone, who is shooting mostly dogs and horses rear ends. ;D ( By the way, successfully. He published a book.)
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I thought you were nicer than that... ;D
Only kidding
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Thanks... it made me feel a bit inappropriate in a way.
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I thought Canadians had a sense of humour
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When I see videos like this, I find myself thinking that part of the magnificence of the photos is the sheer size of the print. Then I think "How do you start out making prints that size so you can sell them for enough to afford all the equipment to make prints that size?". It's like a chicken/egg problem unless you are independently wealthy to start with. Has anyone here sold art prints this size? I'm just confused about how one starts a business like this guy.
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I enjoyed watching this, but it brings a question to mind, one that I suppose has no precise answer: At what size does tray development become unwieldy? Certainly at the size David Benjamin is developing prints it could be considered unwieldy and therefore the processing machines that he uses would be of help.
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I can't see that being his own darkroom unless he is very rich, we had one of those developing machines at college and it was over £30,000
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I thought Canadians had a sense of humour
We do... but sadly it sometimes gets lost in translation (I am a native French speaker).
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I enjoyed watching this, but it brings a question to mind, one that I suppose has no precise answer: At what size does tray development become unwieldy? Certainly at the size David Benjamin is developing prints it could be considered unwieldy and therefore the processing machines that he uses would be of help.
The biggest trays I have are 16x20 and they are a real pain to handle even when empty. Using a color processing drum, you can go much larger without much problem. The biggest prints I ever saw from a pinhole camera were processed in a modified sewage drain pipe... pretty big.
With color, you're more limited than B&W simply because of the lack of safelight.
In an old book I have they were explaining how to process very large prints by either rolling them and unrolling them in a wallpaper tray, or by using the see-saw method where you let the paper form a big U shaped form and soak it in the chemistry.
Some others use sponges or paintbrushes to paint the print with developer on the floor...
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I thought Canadians had a sense of humour
We do... but sadly it sometimes gets lost in translation (I am a native French speaker).
I'm working with a French man on the building site I'm on and he likes it when I try my bad French on him
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Now that must be really funny to hear ;D
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Oui