[LargeFormat] Introducing........

[Jim Brick]

WOW! The future of real photography is alive and well. No 1's and 0's. Just=
=20
molecules, atoms, and REDOX reactions.

GO Matt GO!

:-)

Jim


At 08:08 AM 4/26/2004 -0700, Matt Kennedy wrote:
>Greetings all,
>
>I'm Matt Kennedy, from Arkansas. I've been a darkroom chemistry
>nut for just nearly two years, and shooting large format almost
>exclusively for the last year. I'm a biology major, graduating
>college in about ten days. I spent my student loans on my Shen
>Hao 4x5, a rodenstock sironar n 210mm, a Fuji 90 sw, Minolta
>spotmeter F, and a Slik pro tripod that outweighs all the
>aforementioned gear. The tripod makes all the other gear seem
>light on long hikes in the mountains.
>     My folks allowed me to build my darkroom into a funky old
>mobile home that sits on their retirement property. There, I
>battle mice, temperature variations, and dissolved minerals
>(iron, about two horseshoes/gallon.) I use an omega D2 with
>condensors I got from a little old lady who bought it used in
>the 50's and only took it to bingo. She threw in her retired B &
>J press with its functional graphlex 135mm and a dryer. (So
>THAT's how you dry fiber flat...)
>      I shoot Fortepan200 and soup in PMK in tubes. Now and then,
>I'll test a different dev, but I always come back to the PMK.  I
>have a calumet 6x7 back for shooting color and IR, but haven't
>had opportunity to get those films out of the freezer.
>      I bought 10 boxes of fortepan400 for an extra $1 per box,
>and durned if it isn't the exact same film. Same color, smell,
>notch code, and all. The info sheet in the 400 box makes clear
>that the film was tested under tungsten lights, and will be
>slower in daylight... No such stipulation in the 200 box. Tests
>will tell. But I'm drifting....
>
>      Currently, I shoot quite a bit of portraiture, nudes, and
>the like. I exhausted myself on landscape as a youngster
>shooting small format, but I do want to try to approach it again
>now that I'm free of educational committments... I've been doing
>some alt stuff, mostly Vandyke browns, making negs with Liams
>reversal process on APHS. I hope to try gum bichromate soon.
>
>Cheers to the future,
>
>-Matt
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