Print Exchange Round 96 November 2017

[EdmundH]

Originally Posted by MikeHeller

And arrived yesterday. Its a first!: first time I have had a colour print in the exchange. The colour is very subdued but I did see that it was so as soon as I took it out of the envelope. The restricted colour really suits the subject - the interior of a blacksmith's workshop at 'The Big Pit' in South Wales - and gives it real atmosphere that would not have worked as well in monochrome even if toned.
I also like the way the workshop looks as if it has only been recently abandoned or perhaps still in use. We get used to sanitised and ordered displays in 'heritage centres' so that we forget that they were often places of excessive noise, smell and danger to our modern sensibilities.

A worthy addition to my collection.
Thanks, Mike

I'm glad you appreciated the colour; at first I felt it was perhaps a borderline case, but the smokey colour was rather irresistible. I think the mine ceased production in the 1980s, but as you say, it's nice that they haven't sanitised the site too much, it looks like they just walked out of this building. Unfortunately I wasn't able to take any pictures in the actual mine (300 feet down in the cage...) as we had to surrender anything containing batteries because of the explosion risk. The man in charge was unconvinced that my Zenit EM was purely mechanical

I'll post a scan in the gallery later

[alexmuir]

Originally Posted by photomi7ch

Posted to day by first class.

Just home to find a very interesting print from Mitch. The original idea of a well textured object against a white background has worked nicely. The print also has an element of humour, however, with the surprise appearance of a curious dog.
Thanks, Mitch, I’m very pleased with it. I hope you can put it into the Gallery for others to enjoy.
Alex


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[photomi7ch]

Originally Posted by alexmuir

Just home to find a very interesting print from Mitch. The original idea of a well textured object against a white background has worked nicely. The print also has an element of humour, however, with the surprise appearance of a curious dog.
Thanks, Mitch, I’m very pleased with it. I hope you can put it into the Gallery for others to enjoy.
Alex


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Thanks Alex. Pleased you like it. I will post it shortly.

[MartyNL]

My print went into the post today.

[teejay]

Just to say I received a lovely print of Bryher in the Isles of Scilly from MikeHeller on Thurs - as well as a nice write up of materials used and
an interesting description of the print.

My print for this month is currently drying and will be posted out tomorrow - I'll post here once its actually gone out

[Rob Archer]

Originally Posted by TonyMiller

I received Rob's print of Seaton Delaval Hall in the post today.
Printed on Kentmere Bromide G2 paper - some of Rob's last I believe. (Shame its not made any more.)
Very nicely printed and composed.
Thanks Rob.

Just got home to a great urban image from Chisel. I love it! Rob

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[teejay]

Posted mine today first class

[chisel]

Originally Posted by Rob Archer

Just got home to a great urban image from Chisel. I love it! Rob

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Glad you liked it... uploaded a scan just now.....

[EdmundH]

Originally Posted by teejay

Posted mine today first class

Arrived today. An exciting view of the Menai suspension bridge seen from below the stone arches at one end. I imagine that you had to use the movements on your 5x4 camera to correct this Tim?

The tonality of the stones and water are excellent, but I’m not sure what to make of the overall colour of the paper. It seems to be a variable shade of cream unless I’m-mistaken the sky is somewhat whiter under the arch than to the right.


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[teejay]

Hi Edmund - yes, I had to use some front tilt on the movement - you're right about the tonality, in terms of shades of cream, that's one of the reasons I've started to settle on Foma 132, I really like the subdued whites, cream really as you say - going to start trying some sepia/selenium toning trials with it this weekend. Its one of the first negs I've developed in PMK - I seemed to find that grain focussing was really difficult i.e. struggled to actually find it, I usually use XTOL which produces nice grain so its as if the PMK staining is hiding some of the grain - or on the other hand more likely to be my poor shooting/darkroom techniques !

Tim