{"id":2199,"date":"2013-04-28T16:34:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T21:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2013-04-29T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T16:02:57","slug":"new-images-from-indianapolis-central-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2199","title":{"rendered":"New Images from Indianapolis Central Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I hope you\u2019ll check out my books: Photographing Architecture<\/a>\"\" and Understanding and Controlling Strobe Lighting<\/a>\"\". I hope you\u2019ll get copies, if you haven\u2019t already. Of course you know that one reason for this blog is introduce the books and get you to consider one of my classes at BetterPhoto.com:<\/span><\/span> An Introduction to Photographic Lighting<\/span><\/span><\/a>, Portrait Lighting on Location and in the Studio,<\/a> Getting Started in Commercial Photography<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pictures this week are from a shoot I did at the Indianapolis Central Library. The first portfolio class went really well. Please let me know if you want to be on the mailing list<\/a>. Here\u2019s some more information<\/a> the next meeting is Tuesday May 21, 2013 at the Indianapolis Central Library. This is a great opportunity to make a greater commitment to your work and learn more about how others see your work. Still only $20. I look forward to seeing you if you\u2019re near Indianapolis.
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I\u2019m still looking for a studio space here in Indianapolis. I\u2019ve checked on a couple of spaces, but they have been too large, and therefore too expensive. I\u2019d like to have the extra space and I could have a couple of offices for related businesses, but I don\u2019t want to have to commit to a more expensive lease. I\u2019m going to continue checking out spaces. My goals, right now, are to have about 1600 feet, with a large commercial or cargo door. The actual studio space must be at least 20X30 feet. I will need air conditioning and heat. You always here \u201clocation, location, location\u201d applied to real estate. I think the key is to be sure you understand what you want in a location. I want to be in a good area of town, but I don\u2019t need to be in a mall or on an expensive street. I can be a couple of blocks off the boulevard especially if the parking is good.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve written about processing film and scanning it before, but as I did a lot of work with my 8X10 Toyo recently I thought I would discuss this again. I\u2019ve made some changes in the way I\u2019m processing film for printing Vandykes. I\u2019ll be discussing how I\u2019m scanning the film as well.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I started out working with a two-part developer based on Kodak D-23. The idea of a two-part developer: separating developer and activator, is that you can process almost any film at almost any temperature, which certainly makes things easier. The problem was that the Vandyke process, and most alternate printing processes, requires a very long density range with a very high maximum density. That is the film records the information in a way the makes the whites and blacks further apart, because the printing process tends to push the tones closer together. So I\u2019ve switched to Ilford ID-11 developer. The biggest differences between the two developers is the addition of hydroquinone and the inclusion of the activator (borax) in the single solution developer. I\u2019m using a dilute version of this developer with a very long development time because it makes a longer tonal range. Of course it\u2019s kind of annoying that the processing time is now thirty minutes. If I were going to try and print these negatives on traditional silver gelatin photographic paper it would be difficult, and would require special paper or special handling.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the great advantages of scanning a negative is that you make a good scan of a negative that wouldn\u2019t print well without special handling. I set the scan to keep the detail in the whites and black while maintaining a lot of detail and light in the mid-tones. My actual scan looks pretty flat. Of course the scan is in black and white, and I scan in 8-bit depth. I\u2019m making very large scans: 3200 dpi. The first thing I do with these scans is basically spotting. I remove dust and so on. Since the scans are the first thing I do after processing there isn\u2019t much of this. The next step is to make a copy of the scan and convert it to RGB. As many of you know I like a warm color palette. I use curves for this. I will raise the red curve about 7 units at the very bottom of the curve. Then I\u2019ll move the center of the blue curve down into the yellow about 8 to 10 units. This makes my black and white image a slightly warm black and white image. Then I\u2019ll adjust the whole curve, usually by deepening the shadows and lightening the highlights. This is how I make the final image less flat. Of course sometimes the curves will get rather complex. Then I\u2019ll do a little sharpening, usually with smart sharpening in Photoshop.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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There is one more thing I do with curves: you can see it in the shot below. This is a u shaped curve. I raise the bottom left of the curve to the top of the box and lower the center of the curve, usually to about the 1\/4 line. If you do this without adding the red and yellow first you get an image that looks a little like a solarization that you might make in a darkroom. If you change the curve after you change the color you get the two-tone effect you can see in this image. I think this is a really interesting effect; of course it doesn\u2019t work with most images.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This image was processed with a U shaped curve<\/p><\/div>\n

Please check out my classes at BetterPhoto.com:
\n An Introduction to Photographic Lighting<\/a>,
\nPortrait Lighting on Location and in the Studio,<\/a>
\nGetting Started in Commercial Photography<\/a>
\nThanks, John
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