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: Kiera Knightly on Film Photographers vs Digital
: gothamtomato November 10, 2014, 01:32:02 PM
From Interview magazine:

“I’ve noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas for a lot of photographers who have only ever worked in digital, the relationship between the photographer and the person who they’re taking a picture of sort of doesn’t exist anymore. They’re looking at a computer screen as opposed to the person.”
~Kiera Knightly
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: zapsnaps November 10, 2014, 02:30:24 PM
I think that Kiera has a very good point - photographers who shoot tethered do spend the entire time looking at their wretched monitors. Even the ones whose work  I both admire & respect eg Rankin.
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: Francois November 10, 2014, 03:32:49 PM
The camera already places a level of separation between the photographer and the subject. Adding lots of settings relating to histograms and white balance adds a second level of separation. Adding a tethered computer adds a third. It's pretty hard for the photographer to not pay attention to all those distractions.
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: Indofunk November 10, 2014, 03:50:15 PM
Francois nailed it.
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: limr November 10, 2014, 07:10:34 PM
Francois nailed it.

Agreed.
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: timor November 10, 2014, 07:47:52 PM
Francois nailed it.

Agreed.
Agreed.
Men could be smarter, than computers. Most however prefer to eat potato chips first.
: Re: Kiera Knightly on Film Photographers vs Digital
: Indofunk November 10, 2014, 07:52:04 PM
:D timor nailed it in a different way
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: limr November 10, 2014, 08:01:54 PM
:D timor nailed it in a different way
Agreed again!  ;D
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: Francois November 10, 2014, 09:07:10 PM
Come on guys!
You make me feel all brainy...
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: soeren November 11, 2014, 08:13:38 AM
We need the bowdown emoticon here  ;D


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: hookstrapped November 11, 2014, 07:02:18 PM
I agree with everything
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: Indofunk November 11, 2014, 07:24:39 PM
I just ate a bag of potato chips.
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: Francois November 11, 2014, 10:01:40 PM
I've just come to a strange conclusion:
-Potatoes turn green when exposed to light.
-this means potatoes are photo-sensitive.
-They were turned into chips at the factory.
-Indofunk just ate a whole bag.

this could only mean one thing: Indofunk now has light sensitive chips going through his body!  ;D ;D ;D ;D
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: Bryan November 11, 2014, 10:07:32 PM
I've just come to a strange conclusion:
-Potatoes turn green when exposed to light.
-this means potatoes are photo-sensitive.
-They were turned into chips at the factory.
-Indofunk just ate a whole bag.

this could only mean one thing: Indofunk now has light sensitive chips going through his body!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

I just hope he doesn't share it with us after he develops it.
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: Indofunk November 11, 2014, 10:11:26 PM
I've just come to a strange conclusion:
-Potatoes turn green when exposed to light.
-this means potatoes are photo-sensitive.
-They were turned into chips at the factory.
-Indofunk just ate a whole bag.

this could only mean one thing: Indofunk now has light sensitive chips going through his body!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

I just hope he doesn't share it with us after he develops it.

 ;D ;D ;D :o
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: timor November 12, 2014, 12:36:08 AM
Yeh, but indofunk ate the chips after. And doesn't matter if he ate it or not, I think he is light sensitive anyway.  ;D
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: Indofunk November 12, 2014, 12:41:55 AM
That's why I have to be very careful never to spill Rodinal on myself!  :o
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: ColRay November 12, 2014, 12:48:38 AM
I've just come to a strange conclusion:
-Potatoes turn green when exposed to light.
-this means potatoes are photo-sensitive.
-They were turned into chips at the factory.
-Indofunk just ate a whole bag.

this could only mean one thing: Indofunk now has light sensitive chips going through his body!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

The chlorophyll  in plants can be used for making alternative process prints. I will post a couple I have made using the process
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: ColRay November 12, 2014, 01:00:23 AM
 Chlorophyll  prints this method is a bleach out process, once the paper has been coated and exposed with UV light dark parts of the image are hardened and the lighter parts bleach out.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/ColRay04/IMG_0001_zps88ded8a8.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ColRay04/media/IMG_0001_zps88ded8a8.jpg.html)
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: timor November 12, 2014, 02:29:24 AM
How do you do that ?
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: soeren November 12, 2014, 09:46:15 AM
I've just come to a strange conclusion:
-Potatoes turn green when exposed to light.
-this means potatoes are photo-sensitive.
-They were turned into chips at the factory.
-Indofunk just ate a whole bag.

this could only mean one thing: Indofunk now has light sensitive chips going through his body!  ;D ;D ;D ;D


I just hope he doesn't share it with us after he develops it.
It's a printing out process like POP ;D
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: limr November 12, 2014, 07:45:30 PM
Well, this thread has has some interesting twists and turns ;)
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: Bryan November 12, 2014, 08:29:44 PM
How do you do that ?

Check out this tutorial.

http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/chlorophyll-process/the-chlorophyll-process (http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/chlorophyll-process/the-chlorophyll-process)

And this:

http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/anthotypes/anthotypes-making-print-using-plants (http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/anthotypes/anthotypes-making-print-using-plants)
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: mcduff November 12, 2014, 08:40:19 PM
Yes it has been an interesting thread.

I was kind of impressed that someone relatively young like her (I think she is still late 20's) would articulate this difference. I know she may be older than some of our amazing crew, but my comment still stands.

And that chlorophyll stuff is amazing. I am so down for that!
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: Francois November 12, 2014, 09:36:40 PM
I tried anthotypes a few years ago. But I discovered that not all plants react the same way to light and that 35mm is way too small for the process.
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: mcduff November 12, 2014, 10:31:22 PM
If I did It I was probably gonna cheat - like I did for cyanotypes - and make an Interneg from a laser printer with overhead transparency acetates.
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: ColRay November 12, 2014, 10:34:49 PM
I tried anthotypes a few years ago. But I discovered that not all plants react the same way to light and that 35mm is way too small for the process.

 From 35mm it isn't a problem .. just make larger digital  negatives
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: Francois November 12, 2014, 10:48:56 PM
At the time I didn't...
Also, it takes a lot of blue irises' petals to make enough emulsion for it to work!
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: imagesfrugales November 12, 2014, 10:57:00 PM
Everyone nailed everything here. Am I the only one who wants to nail Keira?

(duck and cover)
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: johnha November 13, 2014, 01:44:36 AM
I remember reading an interview with one of the big name portrait photographers years ago in the pre-d*****l days (possibly Bailey). He said he never used Polaroids apart from right at the end of the shoot to check the camera & lens were working properly. Using them during the shoot caused aggro with the sitters, their entourages and hangers on all wanting to check every detail of every shot.
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: Jack Johnson November 16, 2014, 05:37:53 PM
Yeh, but indofunk ate the chips after. And doesn't matter if he ate it or not, I think he is light sensitive anyway.  ;D

And here I've been toiling away on my banana emulsion, when I could have been doing contact prints with indofunk.  ;)

I think if you have a big enough warehouse, you could also enlarge an image from the ceiling onto the floor, and cockroaches would congregate based on the intensity of the light. Hmmm.

Please don't tell Keira that I segued from her to bananas to sunburns to cockroaches. I was low enough on the list already.