New York February NYC Camera Convention/6th Annual Camera Beauty Contest

FASHION ALERT: "Maggie's" Instagram became listed as one of "The Top Twelve Fashion Instagram Accounts To Follow In 2015." Chech out her Instagram account: @iconaccidental.

Also know that in this week's posts on Monday the 19th of January and Yesterday's post of January 21st feature my newly acquired LR5 skills. In previous posts going back 4 months I just gave my RAW files to "Maggie" to edit and convert to JPEG's, but now I do the post processing and make the JPEG's. Previous images kinda more or less were files kinda straight out of my Monochrom, but now details stand out big time.

Earlier in January "Maggie" had a full blown fashion shoot involving 7 different spring 2015 looks. The stylist dressed "Maggie" with court-tour clothing from luxury designers like Channel and Fendi. Our friend Ari Seth Cohen who is a film maker/plotographer and blogger (www.AdvancedStyle.com) was the photographer that included a hair stylist, make-up artist and a crew of assistants. In the next two or three weeks "Maggie" will will be featured in "Grey Magizine" a high end art/style and fashion quarterly. This publication is printed in Italy and costs about $35-$40 an issue. Readers generally have a choice of 4 different covers so I suspect that "Maggie" might be on one of the covers.

Anyways we are gunning to be in the tent during Fashion Week in the fall.

My printing skills are advancing. LR5 has much of the interactions of wet printing. My results are stunning.

Cal
 
Yesterday I found a copy of a Busch Pressman owners/instruction manual that I will include with the Busch Pressman.

Been printing some street shots, and I took notice that some of my prints resemble the work of Diane Airbus in that my subjects kinda stand out as being abby-normal, a bit monsterous, and as peculiar and odd. In a Diane Airbus kinda way disturbing. LOL.

Perhaps it takes one to know one. LOL.

Cal
 
Bob,

I've been printing. Kinda figured out how all the settings interact in LR5. I went through a box of 50 sheets of 8 1/2x11's and now I nailing the prints. Soon I'll be printing 13x19's and 17x22's.

Part of the reason for speedy learning has been post processing many-many files into JPEG's for the web for "Maggie's" blog. More crazy stuff going on there too. Been doing a lot of studio shooting indoors, as well as shoots outdoors locally.

Been more involved lately and winter has been a busy time. Love the results.

Cal
 
JMQ said:
Do we have a location yet?
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Jean-Marc,

It seems that Puck Fair must get 90 days notice. I suspect that notice will likely be closer to the spring as that is a better time for demolition.

Date: Sunday February 8th.

Location: Puck Fair (balconey location for security)

Time: 1:00 PM (but I will be there around 12:00 noon to secure the space. Remember when the NYFD tough guys took our table/spot?)

This year there are some serously great prizes (John and others are making major contributions), I expect a big flash mob, and my donation to this event is a minty Busch Pressman 2x3 camera for the cheap camera contest. The person to beat is our reigning champion Sam who beat me by a fraction of a percent in sales tax. Oh-the agony of defeat. LOL.

As usual the only rule that will be strictly enforced is: "No Biting." Double LOL.

Cal
 
Crazy Fedya said:
Cal,
It is .25%, actually. Sales tax difference between Suffolk County and NYC. :)
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Sam,

Thanks for the clarification. So far you are the winner of the cheap camera contest. $24.99X0.0025=0.062475.

My only recourse is that if the public mob thinks my Busch Pressman carries a premium on value due to its time capsule condition. Even if this is the case I will gladly give you the camera because: one, you are gunning for it and I like to see a happy photographer; two, the camera will be likely used and fully appreciated; and three, I'm a lucky-lucky guy who likes to be generous, supportive, and share my good luck.

As far as good sportsmanship goes I don't think I could ever top John Chee. There's a guy who knows the agony of defeat, and that guy took many a friendly beating. A true underdog.

Cal
 
Range-rover said:
**Snow Alert**
Lets get out there and takes some pictures! I started tonight on the way home
from work.

Range
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I was out at the wee hours wandering King's Highway down in Brooklyn in the snow with my girlfriend, Bethanne. It was a great time. So quiet! Photos to follow.

Phil Forrest
 
Phil, It must of been nice, but we didn't get what the forecaster first said we were
going to get, but nice none the less.

Cal, Glad to hear every working out for you. are you printing them yourself or
having someone else do it for you, and the LR5 I must of missed that at the last
meet.

**Gear Alert**
The day after the storm I went taking pictures with my new full frame beast,
sure nice to have a full frame again.

Bob
 
Range-rover said:
Cal, Glad to hear every working out for you. are you printing them yourself or
having someone else do it for you, and the LR5 I must of missed that at the last
meet.


Bob
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Bob,

Both. I have a Epson 3880 loaded with Piezography inks for 7 shades of black in a custom split tone set that goes from warm neutral shadows to selenium highlights. I'm printing on a rag Baryta paper so my prints somewhat resemble a glossy wet print on fiber. Mucho detailed and unbelievably wide range of tone.

I further exploit this printer by using a 27 Eizo hardware calibrated display, and some third party software to intergrate LR5 into Piezography using my Epson printer. In a way it is a spackle job, but also a well designed and engineered system that can even be configured to make digital negatives for contact printing like the large format guys do.

Lastly I took advantage of a Digital Silver Imaging offer that gave me $1k worth of printing for only $500.00. I further compounded this offer by taking advantage of other offers where I bought myself gift cards where I got $750.00 worth of printing for $500.00. At this point I have $2.5K worth of printing coming my way.

Yesterday I mailed to DSI an 8 1/2x11 print of "Sal" a street portrait of an old man with a very rugged face who has lived on 116th Street in Spanish Harlem for over 40 years. His face is mighty creased, he was a golden gloves champ, and he was a boxer during the time when fight clubs were popular in NYC. To say that Sal's face displays character would be an understatement, and jokingly I once called Sal "Landscape face" to Christian who understood that although this shot would be considered a street portrait that it also could be considered an urban landscape. In a way this particular shot looks like Dorethia Lange might have taken it back in the WPA days.

After some misunderstanding where I mistakenly was sent some "proofs" that basically were straight prints of my RAW files directly out of my Monochrome without any post processing, the next set of proofs will match the Tiff file I will send tonight with all of my post processing embedded in my metadata. They hopefully match my Piezography print in detail and tonality in the next proof.

My intent is to have a borderless 20x30 for my portfolio and a second 20x30 printed on 24x26 for museum framing with a sizable 2x3 inch border.

What gets crazier is that I figure I can do all this again with another image, meaning a 20x30 borderless for my portfolio and a second 20x30 on 24x36 for museum framing.

Now it really gets insane with my Salgado impersonation where I will eventually get a 20x30 borderless for my portfolio and a 36x54 inch print on 40x60 paper for museum mounting. The image is of Columbus Circle from an upper tier of the AOL Time Warner Atrium where I acrobatically lean over a glass rail to get a split mirror image of Columbus Circle with traffic performing a head on collision. The light must of been perfectly polorized because I have not been able to get the reflected interior part of the image to closely match the outside exterior ever again. To get this shot I used an interior glass wall of windows as a mirror to caplure a second image of the exterior, meaning Columbus Circle.

At the last NYC Meet-Up I had a free 8x10 supplied by DSI that was a zoomed in crop of a 40x60 inch print of Columbus Circle. The resolution was there to confirm that my Monochrom if shot at a high shutter speed can produce increadably detailed files. I'll likely use my tax refund to get this print framed. With a modest border I expect this framed print to be almost as big as my living room sofa in length. What ever you do don't tell "Maggie." LOL.

Because this involves so much money I'm proceeding slowly. Of course the editing process means only the best files with the best content, the best exposure, most detail, best and widest tonality will be printed. I haven't decided on my third image yet.

Cal
 
Calzone said:
I'll likely use my tax refund to get this print framed. With a modest border I expect this framed print to be almost as big as my living room sofa in length. What ever you do don't tell "Maggie." LOL.
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Somehow I think she's going to notice the print Cal... when she sees it on the wall!
 
Thanks Cal. Looking forward to it.


Calzone said:
Jean-Marc,

It seems that Puck Fair must get 90 days notice. I suspect that notice will likely be closer to the spring as that is a better time for demolition.

Date: Sunday February 8th.

Location: Puck Fair (balconey location for security)

Time: 1:00 PM (but I will be there around 12:00 noon to secure the space. Remember when the NYFD tough guys took our table/spot?)

This year there are some serously great prizes (John and others are making major contributions), I expect a big flash mob, and my donation to this event is a minty Busch Pressman 2x3 camera for the cheap camera contest. The person to beat is our reigning champion Sam who beat me by a fraction of a percent in sales tax. Oh-the agony of defeat. LOL.

As usual the only rule that will be strictly enforced is: "No Biting." Double LOL.

Cal
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CNNY said:
Not if he puts that big roll of paper in front of it.
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John,

Christian eludes to a white backdrop that seems to be invading the space reserved for my big print. Lately we have been using my livingroom as a studio. I expect to buy a semi-pro backdrop stand to evacuate the space shortly, and currently a now modest sized wet print of a meager 18 1/2 x 18 1/2 that is museum framed with a large border has dibs and reserves the space behind "Maggie's" backdrop.

Good thing I just secured and locked down a two year lease. I expect that two years from now I'll require a loft or rather large duplex so that Columbus Circle does not loom so large in a disproportionate manner. Not so sure about "Maggie's" feelings about being reminded of work every day, since she teaches at Fordham's grad school at Lincoln Center. LOL. Mark Cuban once said, "Go big or don't go." Double-LOL

Even funnier will be the junks-O-postion of Columbus Circle on one wall in your face with my floor to ceiling windows overlooking Lexington Avenue in Spanish Harlem that comprises another wall.

I call it all "Calzone Factor." Triple-LOL.

Anyways I bought "Maggie" an expensive present recently. I figure I have a get outa jail free card. Basically if you have a license to be bad why be good?

Cal
 
jsrockit said:
Cal, you'll have to have an opening in your apt once you hang the print.
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John,

Just last month we had Ari Seth Cohen over who is a notable photographer/film maker/writer and blogger along with Valentina, the Editor and Chief of "Grey Magizine."

"Maggie's" blog has gotten a lot of traction and I've been slaving away. Most recently Maggie got recognized as the "Top 12 Fashion Instagram Accounts To Follow in 2015" http://theculturetrip.com; and as "Fifteen Amazing Senior Style Instagrammers You Should Follow Right Now" www.buzzfeed.com.

The amount of momentum going on and other inquires has us too busy as somehow I am swept into a major ground swell. Might be March or so when I get the big print made, but I don't want to get ahead of myself, or make life more busy. Been printing a little bit each day. Meanwhile I'm buried by just two years of Monochrom shooting alone. Then there is my film shooting...

Lately I've been just concentrating on my work and Maggie's blog.

Cal
 
No sweat Cal... it was only half serious. However, you gotta let me see the print eventually (once finished). Good luck with everything else.
 
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