Michael Carter
25-Jan-2009, 11:47
Years ago I drew a series of pencil images of Pittsburgh. No money? Talented? Use pencil! When it rained, 35mm slides were projected in my room and I drew as if outside. Some of the collection is in my possession yet.
Today, I have some money and I want to do the same thing only photographically. So, the Darkroom photography class at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts was taken. Now it is the third time round for me as I do not have my own room.
Not for long, however. Yesterday, I paid a guy to help me clean out my camera collection room in order for a contractor to turn it into a proper darkroom!!!
Enlargements won't do. A 20 x 24 contact printing frame was bought, huge trays, the book by Alan Greene the same as the title of this article, Primitive Photography, and a lens from AU: APO - Tessar 1:9 f = 45 cm Carl Zeiss Jena Nr 1569454. It was describes as being able to cover a large format area. Is that a proper lens?
If the men I have working for me come through well enough, I may let them finish my two car garage where I have a space by the windows for a work bench. That is where a ULF camera could be made with wood working equipment. I'm pretty good at that but too tired for major construction.
16 x 20 drawings were about the right size, some smaller, some larger. Photographs abut the same sizes would be really cool. Black and white is my interest, not color prints. Toneing or hand coloring would be neat.
Pentax 6x7 120 film shot with massive lenses are being used presently and I've been printing up to 11 x 14 sizes. The 4x5 enlargers will go much larger but the teacher doesn't want to use trays that big. I'll have get a sink big enough.
That is where I am at.
Has anyone made such a box camera? How about developing huge negs or printing 16 x 20 or bigger.
What kind of lens should I get if the one I have isn't right?
Thanks for reading my rant but no one around here is interested. There is a class in 8x10 south of here in the mountains that will be a nice retreat week that'll give me more experience.
Michael Carter
Today, I have some money and I want to do the same thing only photographically. So, the Darkroom photography class at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts was taken. Now it is the third time round for me as I do not have my own room.
Not for long, however. Yesterday, I paid a guy to help me clean out my camera collection room in order for a contractor to turn it into a proper darkroom!!!
Enlargements won't do. A 20 x 24 contact printing frame was bought, huge trays, the book by Alan Greene the same as the title of this article, Primitive Photography, and a lens from AU: APO - Tessar 1:9 f = 45 cm Carl Zeiss Jena Nr 1569454. It was describes as being able to cover a large format area. Is that a proper lens?
If the men I have working for me come through well enough, I may let them finish my two car garage where I have a space by the windows for a work bench. That is where a ULF camera could be made with wood working equipment. I'm pretty good at that but too tired for major construction.
16 x 20 drawings were about the right size, some smaller, some larger. Photographs abut the same sizes would be really cool. Black and white is my interest, not color prints. Toneing or hand coloring would be neat.
Pentax 6x7 120 film shot with massive lenses are being used presently and I've been printing up to 11 x 14 sizes. The 4x5 enlargers will go much larger but the teacher doesn't want to use trays that big. I'll have get a sink big enough.
That is where I am at.
Has anyone made such a box camera? How about developing huge negs or printing 16 x 20 or bigger.
What kind of lens should I get if the one I have isn't right?
Thanks for reading my rant but no one around here is interested. There is a class in 8x10 south of here in the mountains that will be a nice retreat week that'll give me more experience.
Michael Carter