Finally no crop 35mm!

[Johnmcd]

Purchased a 20.3cm (8") x 76m roll of Ilford Multigrade. It's a hassle cutting up the sheets to suit but I can now have crop free 35mm aspect without any wastage. At last!

Also great for panoramas out of the Mamiya 7.

 

[Daniel Teoli Jr.]

Your Zenfolio has too much crap mixed in. Make a portfolio of your best fire work, like 25 to 30 max. Don't have all the garbage mixed in. Looks like you don't know what your doing.

If your a hobbyist and don't care, fine, do as you like. If your serious and ever want to move up curators don't want to look at all your personal pix. Your website is all over the place.

If your serious and wish to put your best foot forward, only have your best work connected with your name. When someone Googles your name your best images and projects should only show up. Don't dilute a portfolio with lots of garbage like many photogs do. They will have 20 versions of a crapper pix. Just pick one, no one wants to see 20 views of garbage.

Also be careful where you leave comments with your name or an account that is connected to your name. The other person's photos will show up on your image search. While it is nice to encourage upcoming photogs that do not produce anything special, I don't want their pix showing up on a search for my name.


Here is an example. I left a comment on a blog and now his pix, circled in green, shows up on an image search for my name.


(nsfw)


http://testarchives.tumblr.com/image/113035786794

I like his pix and it is not a hardship on me. But I don't want an image search of my name to show up lots of bad work that is not mine and dilutes my portfolio. It also works the same if you have your images used by others. Their images can show up in an image search for you and your images.


Same link as above, photo circled in red. I made the mistake of putting some of my lower end photos on Wiki Commons. Someone used it and did a bad job on exposure and now it shows up in an image search of my name. Same with another person that chopped up one of my photo.


I am a museum photog. I have my work in nearly 100 museums and public collections around the world. When a curator looks up my name I don't want them to have to sift through lots of junk and be turned off. So keep a clean profile with Google and where and how your work is used if your interested in getting ahead.

I have 45+ Tumblrs. Every project gets a Tumblr of its own. You want to keep a body of work focused not all over the place.

 

[bence8810]

Intense shot with the fire fighters!

Yes - I understand the problem, i am also facing this and didn't think there was a solution for it. I am thinking about printing 6x6 more in the future and it really bothered me to have the sides wasted. Roll might be the idea after all!

Cheers,
Ben

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I like the contrast.

 

[Fotohuis]

Nice photos and result.

You have cutting machines where you can put a roll in. Normally you can get them from any closed mini lab.

On the other hand B&W MG paper you can cut by (Red) darkroom light. RA-4 color is already much more difficult at very low intensity Sodium vapour light (Yellow).

 

[Rob-F]

You can also buy 11 x 14 and cut them in half to 7 x 11. That gives an aspect ratio slightly wider than your 35mm negative; but it's pretty darn close: 1.57 to 1, rather than 1.5 to 1.

 

[Johnmcd]

Intense shot with the fire fighters!

Yes - I understand the problem, i am also facing this and didn't think there was a solution for it. I am thinking about printing 6x6 more in the future and it really bothered me to have the sides wasted. Roll might be the idea after all!

Cheers,
Ben

I will be cutting up some squares as well 🙂

 

[Johnmcd]

Nice photos and result.

You have cutting machines where you can put a roll in. Normally you can get them from any closed mini lab.

On the other hand B&W MG paper you can cut by (Red) darkroom light. RA-4 color is already much more difficult at very low intensity Sodium vapour light (Yellow).

A cutting machine would make life much easier. I'll keep my eyes open for one. Thanks for the idea.

 

[Rob-F]

Intense shot with the fire fighters!

Yes - I understand the problem, i am also facing this and didn't think there was a solution for it. I am thinking about printing 6x6 more in the future and it really bothered me to have the sides wasted. Roll might be the idea after all!

Cheers,
Ben

The extra can be used for test strips!

 

[HHPhoto]

The extra can be used for test strips!

Exactly!
I am doing that successfully since the beginning of my darkroom work as a young student.
I've never wasted any BW photo paper.

Furthermore Adox is offering BW paper in both 2:3 (for 35mm film) and 1:1 (for 6x6) ratio format:
http://www.adox.de/Photo/adox-fotopapiere/mcc-barytpapier/

http://www.adox.de/Photo/adox-fotopapiere/mcp-pe-papier/

Cheers, Jan

 

[bence8810]

Exactly!
I am doing that successfully since the beginning of my darkroom work as a young student.
I've never wasted any BW photo paper.

Furthermore Adox is offering BW paper in both 2:3 (for 35mm film) and 1:1 (for 6x6) ratio format:
http://www.adox.de/Photo/adox-fotopapiere/mcc-barytpapier/

http://www.adox.de/Photo/adox-fotopapiere/mcp-pe-papier/

Cheers, Jan

Since no square paper here that I know of - I guess I am getting a cutter.
What do you guys use - those boards with a blade fastened to it's side? Don't know what it's called.
I guess it's another couple of square foot of space taken up from my tiny Tokyo apartment 🙂

Cheers,
Ben

 

[HHPhoto]

Since no square paper here that I know of

You can get the Adox square paper in Japan by
http://www.silversalt.jp/

The owner is a German, who is also speaking English.

Cheers, Jan

 

[alistair.o]

They are both good and the size is ideal for them IMO.

Your posts always add something John: keep 'em coming.

Well done.

 

[Roger Hicks]

http://rotatrim.com/ for the best rotary cutters. The swinging-blade version is nothing like as good (I have both).

Cheers,

R.