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How do you feel about square prints, Stewart? The one posted above could be cropped squrae, losing the right hand side. It would help the composition, I think. I like the beefy uniformed pair walking away on the left hand side, for balance.
 
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This is the only picture of mine I've ever printed, it covers up where the fireplace used to be in my living room...

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btw Stewart, that pic of your kids watching Dr. Who is genius - it totally captures the small differences between today and yesterday, these tiny differences in our lives that we never really notice except in retrospect.

Untill about 1990 my family didn't have a phone or tv, and our tv was an 11" black and white that was tuned by dial like a radio. When I was 18 and went to university laptops were only for the sons of millionaires, I don't think I owned a computer from when I was 18 (I had a BBC Micro before then...) until 20 or so. My first laptop I didn't get until I started my MA, and even then only because I got a good deal from a friend...

Now everywhere everyone has their laptop with them, on the sofa, checking their emails at the same time as watching tv or chatting...

In the future, we'll look back on the days before laptops with wonder, just as today I wonder how anyone ever managed to meet their friends in the pub without a mobile. It used to just be such and such a pub at 9, nowadays it takes about ten phone calls and the pub and time change at least seven times ;)
 
FrankS said:
How do you feel about square prints, Stewart? The one posted above could be cropped squrae, losing the right hand side. It would help the composition, I think. I like the beefy uniformed pair walking away on the left hand side, for balance.
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I’ve always argued cropping is just part of the process, not something to be fundamental about … but I always get twitchy if I’m taking off more that the frame-line error, and I’d not be keen on altering the format I don’t think, bit of a hypocrite I suppose

I think they keep those Toy-bobbies on a special high fat diet, they all seem to be like that
 
historicist said:
btw Stewart, that pic of your kids watching Dr. Who is genius - it totally captures the small differences between today and yesterday, these tiny differences in our lives that we never really notice except in retrospect.

Untill about 1990 my family didn't have a phone or tv, and our tv was an 11" black and white that was tuned by dial like a radio. When I was 18 and went to university laptops were only for the sons of millionaires, I don't think I owned a computer from when I was 18 (I had a BBC Micro before then...) until 20 or so. My first laptop I didn't get until I started my MA, and even then only because I got a good deal from a friend...

Now everywhere everyone has their laptop with them, on the sofa, checking their emails at the same time as watching tv or chatting...

In the future, we'll look back on the days before laptops with wonder, just as today I wonder how anyone ever managed to meet their friends in the pub without a mobile. It used to just be such and such a pub at 9, nowadays it takes about ten phone calls and the pub and time change at least seven times ;)
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I saw the first episode of Dr Who when I was about 8 or 9, they went back and were captured by cave-men, the Dr was going to scare them off with fire … but he’d left his matches back in the tardis.

At the time the only technology I had was a small AM radio, with those new fangled transistors, my son has no idea what a transistor is
 
This has had a lot of spotting, the neg looks like i developed it in orange juice and stored it in an ash-tray

I also broke the "back of the subject" rule

 
just re-printed actually, an old favourite neg from around 1980, not sure it was a RF I sometimes used a 28 f2 on an OM1 in such places back then, HP5 in that new Acuspeed stuff

 
We've been eating there each summer for years, on the veranda just behind where this is, I just found this one from maybe 8 or 10 years back

 
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A little different from those above. My first successful chromoskedasic processed print. The subject is Poison Ivy.
 

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This is a neg I developed in coffee and washing soda last year, I thought I'd see how well I could print one, it has lots of problems drag and uneven developing and huge lumps of grain. Lost of spotting and burning bits in.
 
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