Dancing About Architecture
January 12th, 2008
Kate setting up her mother’s computer to get podcasts
Studio 360 recently ran an interview with David Plowden, one of the few times I’ve heard a photographer interviewed on the radio. It’s worth a listen, particularly if you enjoyed Plowden’s recent book, Vanishing Point. The interview makes it clear that vanishing point perhaps refers as much to the disappearance of his favored subjects as it does to a feature of perspective.
Get the MP3 here.
January 12th, 2008
Excellent photo. Great tones, beautiful model. One of these days I’ll find out what podcasts are!
January 12th, 2008
This photo is very nice, but you didn’t have the courage to decide yourself for the traditional verticals, and something totally stupid, and there you are in between ;-)
“Use the giottos rocket blower to blow the water off the negatives. This is harder than it looks, but take your time. Between the distilled water, the rinsing formula and the blower, there should be very little water crud left on the negatives when we go to scan. You can tell this is important because the process is way over engineered here. Any sane person would have just used method and backup method, but spotting negs in Photoshop is a pain in the ass and leads to deep metaphysical doubts, which just leads to buying more digital cameras. So take your time and blow all the water off those negs.”
I have utterly enjoyed this tutorial, especially the point above :-), but what on earth is the giottos rocket blower ?
January 13th, 2008
I’m not sure how this photo ended up cockeyed. I don’t normally do that, but I think this was taken just after I had woken up. Blame the lack of coffee.
The giottos rocket blower is one of these, but I should update that paragraph. I’ve since found that pouring the photoflo rinse remaining in the developing tank down the negatives does a better job of sheeting off the water the rocket blower. It’s easier too.