backlog!

[ChrisLivsey]

Not film to develop, but negative sleeves to contact print. In one binder, I counted 130 pages, spanning several years of shooting, and in another with just my european vacation pics from 2008, there are about 40 pages. It's a rainy day and I have not been assigned any projects, I should simply log off RFF and get'r'done!

You have a way to go yet, "Winogrand left behind nearly 300,000 unedited images, and more than 2,500 undeveloped rolls of film."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winogrand
😀

 

[FrankS]

ChrisL,
Yes, he certainly set the standard.

For Tom A,
Here are some contact sheet scans:

 

[FrankS]

And here is a neg scan, taken in a small town in southern France. And a view from our apartment balcony there. Roger and Francis graciously drove quite a distance in a rickety old Land Rover to meet me here.

 

[Tom A]

Frank, thanks for the contacts. It is always interesting to see the progression of shots in contacts. You can see the shooter "works" the subject.
I think it was HCB who claimed that showing contacts was similar to undressing in public. He obviously refused to have his contacts in any of his books. After he dies, they were shown in a couple of biographies.

 

[FrankS]

Frank, thanks for the contacts. It is always interesting to see the progression of shots in contacts. You can see the shooter "works" the subject.
I think it was HCB who claimed that showing contacts was similar to undressing in public. He obviously refused to have his contacts in any of his books. After he dies, they were shown in a couple of biographies.

Yes, I figured that. One can see that process with the boat hull. I spent at least 20 minutes working it, changing my position to alter the background. At the Tintern Abbey ruin, I just wandered around and sometimes came back to the same location.

 

[_larky]

I have got down to about 20 rolls from 3-4 years ago, my hands are burning (I react in extreme ways to chemicals, gloves even do not help). I'll have to leave it for a week before I can do any more.

It's fun though 🙂

 

[FrankS]

I have got down to about 20 rolls from 3-4 years ago, my hands are burning (I react in extreme ways to chemicals, gloves even do not help). I'll have to leave it for a week before I can do any more.

It's fun though 🙂

How about tongs? I only actually touch wet washed prints.

 

[_larky]

Tongs, for 35mm film? I'm not that clever 🙂

 

[FrankS]

Fingers for developing film?

How do your hands come in contact (get wet) with chemicals while developing film or making wet prints?

 

[_larky]

It spills out of the tank, I need literally only a drop to set me off. I am yet to find a set of gloves that don't do the same thing, they all seem to be covered in goo so they don't stick to you or something.

I have a Patterson tank, on the inversions after a while a bit of fluid comes out. The dev is ok, but the fix is really bad.

 

[FrankS]

Instead of inverting, try twirling/rotating with the handle, all the liquid stays inside that way.

 

[_larky]

I will give that another go, only tried it once and the film came out looking like it had fungus on it 🙂