Author Topic: Time for a New Post Card Exchange, anyone want to play? [now with instructions] (Read 106455 times)

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #50 on:** May 16, 2013, 03:36:42 PM »

so, time is growing short for sign ups for the postcard exchange..We currently have 29 names..I am adding a list of the names here..if you believe you have signed up and don't see your name please email me with the information...name, address and outside email address... I will send each person a list of 14 Or 15 names on the 1st of June, if you want both lists just let me know.

1.Carlos Albisu

2.Christopher Hebert

3.Urban Hafner

4.Irvin Bartlett

5.Shaun Harvey

6.Andy Benn

7.Emma Yeomans,

8.Andrej Kutarna

9.David Salisbury

10.François Laverdure

11.Paul Jenkin

12.Moiz Kader

13.Leon Yuhanov

14.Jack Johnson

15.Marcel Schepers

16.Don Duff-mcCracken

17.Adam Doe

18.Ordinal

19.Paul Llorca,

20.Tony Kwong

21.David Salisbury

22.Piet de Wolff

23.Mike Crawford

24.Miles Davis

25.Stephen Segasby

26.Tim Maseizik

27.Eirik Russell Roberts

28.Greg Bartley

29. Diane Peterson

Urban Hafner · « **Reply #51 on:** May 16, 2013, 03:42:01 PM »

Everyone for me please!

Jack Johnson · « **Reply #52 on:** May 19, 2013, 05:12:55 PM »

Getting closer!

I have a few color rolls to pick up on Monday and at least two monochrome to soup (maybe today). Then about a week of waffling, then about a week of last-ditch shooting, then a weekend of waffling, selection, and off to the postcard printer.

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #53 on:** May 28, 2013, 03:34:02 PM »

So I hope every one who wants to sign up for the exchange has signed up. I will be emailing out the list today and tomorrow..Please refer back to the beginning of this post to refressh memories about the next step in the exchange.

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #54 on:** May 28, 2013, 04:44:57 PM »

Hopefully everyone who signed up has received their list of names for the postcard exchange..If you didn't get the list, please let me know as soon as possible and include your email address and I will get the list to you asap! Urban asked for the entire list, I think I sent it to him but if anyone else wants the entire list just let me know.

LEAFotography · « **Reply #55 on:** May 28, 2013, 06:32:13 PM »

Got my list thank you Diane!

Looking forward to sending these off

And seeing what drops in through my letter box too

Yglotte · « **Reply #56 on:** May 28, 2013, 08:26:03 PM »

If it's not darkroom printed, ir's not bad, is it ?

Francois · « **Reply #57 on:** May 28, 2013, 08:42:31 PM »

You can use a standard 1 hour lab and mount the prints on cardboard. That's what I do and it works fine.

Yglotte · « **Reply #58 on:** May 28, 2013, 09:11:37 PM »

Thanks !

Andrej K · « **Reply #59 on:** May 29, 2013, 07:29:46 AM »

Thanks for organizing this, Diane! Time to head to the darkroom and get printing!

ChristopherCoy · « **Reply #60 on:** May 29, 2013, 09:04:10 AM »

I got my list! I hope to start printing next week.

Adam Doe · « **Reply #61 on:** May 29, 2013, 12:19:04 PM »

List received, thanks.

Francois · « **Reply #62 on:** May 29, 2013, 02:59:29 PM »

It's in!
Just have to find a good picture and move them out.

I hope everybody will put stamps on the cards. It's much nicer than the usual postal sticker...

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #63 on:** May 29, 2013, 03:40:20 PM »

I love receiving the postcards with stamps..Nice collection on their own!

Andrej K · « **Reply #64 on:** May 29, 2013, 04:19:36 PM »

I already have a pile of stamps ready for you all!

Francois · « **Reply #65 on:** May 29, 2013, 09:09:40 PM »

Fantastic!

calbisu · « **Reply #66 on:** May 30, 2013, 08:14:09 PM »

I think I am gonna enjoy this!

LeonY · « **Reply #67 on:** May 31, 2013, 03:19:24 AM »

Printed, Addressed, Stamped and SENT!
Enjoy everyone!
I found a box of old AGFA Post Card Phoot paper in my stock of paper, it was foggy but still printed well.

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #68 on:** May 31, 2013, 03:16:08 PM »

LeonY...

Mine should be out next Wednesday! Exciting!

Ezzie · « **Reply #69 on:** June 01, 2013, 03:20:12 PM »

I need to send out for mine, darkroom not yet finished, and printer has given up the ghost. So it till take a couple of weeks.

Francois · « **Reply #70 on:** June 01, 2013, 03:40:03 PM »

Pictures have just been sent to the printer. Now, the waiting game has begun $:-\$

stevesegz · « **Reply #71 on:** June 03, 2013, 05:00:39 PM »

oh you guys are too organised! I will make a start printing this weekend, now one thing, I see some peeps want to have the stamp on the card, so if I put them in an envelope to protect the print am I breaking a written or unwritten rule of postcard swaps?

Sorry a newbie to this.
Steve

Francois · « **Reply #72 on:** June 03, 2013, 09:30:16 PM »

I think so. I always like a postcard to be sent "through the mail" and not protected in any way.
A postcard is just that, a piece of cardboard with a picture on one side and an destination address, a stamp and hopefully some text on the back.

All the traces left by the postal service are part of the appeal. Over the last two exchanges, I've had only one card that came looking like it had gone through a cheese grater.

Adam Doe · « **Reply #73 on:** June 03, 2013, 10:35:17 PM »

Image sent to the printers. Now to wait...

zapsnaps · « **Reply #74 on:** June 04, 2013, 09:54:02 AM »

LeonY: Mine arrived today - thank you. Yours is the first to arrive & all the way from Oz (I'm in the UK). I like the old Agfa postcard stock - it's a really nice colour.

Off to Barcelona for the day next week on business and I'll take my Pola postcards then.

LeonY · « **Reply #75 on:** June 04, 2013, 12:40:26 PM »

zapsnaps: Really? Wow Oz Post works...sometimes.Its usually an abysmal carrier! That paper is pretty fogged, but it looks so good, and its specifically designed as a postcard, so i couldn't wait to use it for this exchange! Enjoy!

Urban Hafner · « **Reply #76 on:** June 04, 2013, 01:00:24 PM »

I received your card today Leon! It's the first one as well. Really beautiful how that fogged paper worked out here.

Francois · « **Reply #77 on:** June 04, 2013, 05:55:29 PM »

Just got my prints from the lab. Got the stamps.
Now where did I put that spray glue?

Andrej K · « **Reply #78 on:** June 04, 2013, 07:15:20 PM »

Bad news, folks, went to the darkroom a while ago to print the cards, discovered that one of the lamps in my enlarger blew up.. Will have to order one.. Or send out some contact prints - those can be done with a table lap.

Mike Crawford · « **Reply #79 on:** June 04, 2013, 07:43:23 PM »

Think I will be more mid June myself to send out but will be done!!

LEAFotography · « **Reply #80 on:** June 04, 2013, 08:07:40 PM »

The first card sent to me has arrived!

Thank you Leon Yuhanov!

A great Delhi street scene shot on Fuji Neopan 400 with a Fuji GS645, with a cute Kookaburra stamp!

My selection is sorted, I just need to get them printed and interesting stamps and they'll be off at the weekend.

Francois · « **Reply #81 on:** June 04, 2013, 10:44:52 PM »

OK, I did find that spray glue. Now, I just need to get my fingers unstuck... I feel like Clark Griswold when he was trying to get rid of those blown-in leaflets we find in magazines...

Cards will probably be in the mail tomorrow.

tkmedia · « **Reply #82 on:** June 05, 2013, 05:46:10 PM »

sent two out today... YES 2. My regional postal service office is shuttered, will have to locate another elsewhere (another time) as I need more stamps for international postage.

Emma · « **Reply #83 on:** June 05, 2013, 07:35:00 PM »

Recieved a wonderful postcard from Leon

Mine will probably be mid/late June. I finished exams yesterday, so I have a bit more time, but if I wait until I go back to college next wednesday I can use their darkroom, so possibly do proper prints!

Francois · « **Reply #84 on:** June 05, 2013, 09:48:46 PM »

And they'rrrr off!

irv_b · « **Reply #85 on:** June 05, 2013, 10:05:57 PM »

Wow a lovely postcard of a street scene from Delhi. Thanks Leon that capped off a really good day, a treat, I'm so looking forward to getting more!
I'll be hopefully printing mine this weekend and posting next week!

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #86 on:** June 06, 2013, 01:48:44 AM »

Quote from: tkmedia on June 05, 2013, 05:46:10 PM

sent two out today... YES 2. My regional postal service office is shuttered, will have to locate another elsewhere (another time) as I need more stamps for international postage.

Tony..does this mean you got my list? hope so!

tkmedia · « **Reply #87 on:** June 06, 2013, 02:31:17 AM »

yes, Diane. Also your card is in the post.

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #88 on:** June 06, 2013, 03:08:05 AM »

So is yours!mailed the US ones today..now to get stamps for everyone outside the states! So exciting!

ChristopherCoy · « **Reply #89 on:** June 06, 2013, 04:27:01 AM »

I got the list, but I'll be a late printer this month....

ChristopherCoy · « **Reply #90 on:** June 06, 2013, 04:30:13 AM »

Oh crap!!

I received "Delhi" in the mail and though it was part of the APUG exchange!!!! OOPS!!!

I love Loved LOVED this image! I especially love the way that it was printed.

tkmedia · « **Reply #91 on:** June 06, 2013, 07:24:25 AM »

I still have a bunch of materials from the last exchange. I'm using up the last of the paper since they already been cut to size from the original 18 x 24inch (45x61cm) sheet. Also used some of the slightly bad cut reject paper I didnt use last year. I'm just too cheap and lazy.

EDIT: used a few different photos, so not all will be the same.

img203 by Studioesper, on Flickr

Andrej K · « **Reply #92 on:** June 06, 2013, 10:42:16 PM »

Good news is I have picked up a spare lamp for my enlarger.

Worse news is that no postcard arrived yet here.. I just hope they didn't end somewhere in the floods...

LeonY · « **Reply #93 on:** June 07, 2013, 02:46:48 AM »

Quote from: ChristopherCoy on June 06, 2013, 04:30:13 AM

I received "Delhi" in the mail and though it was part of the APUG exchange!!!! OOPS!!!
I love Loved LOVED this image! I especially love the way that it was printed.

Thanks mate, i was actually a bit worried that the paper was so old and Foggy, but it came out OK!
Leon

ChristopherCoy · « **Reply #94 on:** June 07, 2013, 06:03:08 AM »

Quote from: tkmedia on June 06, 2013, 07:24:25 AM

I still have a bunch of materials from the last exchange. I'm using up the last of the paper since they already been cut to size from the original 18 x 24inch (45x61cm) sheet. Also used some of the slightly bad cut reject paper I didnt use last year. I'm just too cheap and lazy.

EDIT: used a few different photos, so not all will be the same.

How'd you do the title part on an image like that?

tkmedia · « **Reply #95 on:** June 07, 2013, 08:44:18 AM »

that was the only part that was computer aided because I wanted the 'official logo' but can be done 100% analog without a computer with similar techniques using letraset.

Xerographics! stolen logo! photoshop rest of text, use old fuse type laser printer, printed backwards. cut each title from paper, heat titles (toaster ovens are great for this) sandwich on top of card to transfer toner. cyanotype process, develop, wash, dry. heat card use more paper lift toner.

but I think maybe easy way is maybe computer print on transparency overlay and use over the exposure process, which I have also done.
I was previously in the extinct wet print industry, prepping negatives and bits of plate making.

ChristopherCoy · « **Reply #96 on:** June 07, 2013, 11:42:00 AM »

I was thinking maybe you took a photo of a print out if the title and then put that negative over your print negative.....

Adam Doe · « **Reply #97 on:** June 07, 2013, 12:42:31 PM »

Cards are back from the printer. I've addressed and stamped them all. Will be at the post office shortly. Can't wait to see everyone's photos.

tkmedia · « **Reply #98 on:** June 07, 2013, 07:37:30 PM »

Paul Llorca got your card today in the US. looks cool. was not expecting an envelope.

Yglotte · « **Reply #99 on:** June 07, 2013, 08:58:27 PM »

Quote from: tkmedia on June 07, 2013, 07:37:30 PM

Paul Llorca got your card today in the US. looks cool. was not expecting an envelope.

I wanted to get it as fast as I could

You received the stencil or the street scene ? BTW, both shot on Leica M4/Cron 50mm/Trix