More Ghosts for lighting

Not quite done being edited...still need to get rid of that red glow underneath the car but whatevs.

New Goods Recently Arrived in Photo Checkout

Students -

Photo checkout now has available several new items which may be of use to you. Those of you who have been frequently checking out light meters may already be aware that we've acquired another pair of Sekonic L758s (PDF of the manual is available here), but we've also picked up a couple more basic lightmeters: a pair of Gossen Digiflash meters. These are very small and simple meters, and as such I suspect that some of you will love them dearly for their portability and simplicity, and others among you will regard them with a frothing hatred for their lack of advanced features and basic interface. I would advise having a look at them before you have need for a light meter to determine if it's the sort of meter you'd like or not. The instruction manual is available here (PDF), and of course you can stop by photo checkout to give one a test drive.

On the color management side of things, there's a new Spyder3 Elite available for (in-building) checkout to address your laptop display calibration needs, and a trio of X-Rite Colorchecker Passports.

Checkout also has a couple new Vivitar 285HVs. These are non-dedicated flashes that can be used on just about any camera with a flash shoe or PC socket... except for that goofy Sony/Minolta "inside out" flash shoe design. These are essentially manual flashes, and though they have some Auto features, they won't give you any sort of TTL functionality, so you might want to study up on the manual, which is available in checkout. I couldn't find a Vivitar-provided online manual for the 285HV, but there is a manual for a prior version (though same model number) located here (PDF).

its actually fall!

Holly Andres, guest speaker SFP

All photo students should plan on attending the artist talk by Holly Andres on Friday October 8th, Linfield Hall room 125, from 10:00am-11:30am.  Everyone is welcome, bring your friends!

Untitled Persons

Here are a few images that sort of show the direction I'm going for my senior. The idea is that these are all people that I pulled off the street at random and brought them into my apartment to photograph. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Lith

This was my first attempt at lith printing, which I am a fan of because I didn't totally suck at it right away. 4x5 doesn't seem to be very advantageous for the process though, I seemed to get more grain and yellowing when I was printing from 6x6 (although I don't know if the yellowing had anything to do with the film size).

The Digi Holga

Thanks to Jordan C. for this link.

woohoo!

Hey all.  This is the project I'm currently working on in DC, yay! Check out the article, I'm mentioned in there somewhere at the end :)

Architecture Photography in Butte

264 spent the day in Butte yesterday making architecture photos. Here are a few of the Fuji Instax demo images.

Bozeman Survey Meeting

There will be a Bozeman Survey meeting October 8th at 5pm at Ian van Coller's house. Everyone who is interested in being a part of the survey is invited. Returning and new members are encouraged to bring prints, 16x20 in dimension.

Bills place from Butte Yesterday

photo © Ian van Coller. All Rights Reserved Stitched image from Leaf Aptus Digi Back using a Toyo AX with Kapture stitching back. Final image 9500 pixels wide.

Libbie! Check this out!

Thought this may be of some help to you and your senior...

!st image for Senior

this is just a rough copy of the image but is more the direction i will be heading

Congrats to Jace

congratulations to Jace, currently a finalist for the Nadar Award, woohoo!

Clearance

Here are two images I made for Chris's location lighting class this past weekend.

Lumens

Just some Lumen prints I did over this last weekend, about a 3 hour exposure for each. Pretty happy with the first one, what do you all think?

SPE Scholarships

Seniors!

If you have any businesses or individuals whom you think would be willing to sponsor the senior show, let me know ASAP!

I have gobs 'o gobs of letters if you want to snag one from me soon!

Thank you

libbie

Negative Mordancage

These are prints from the 4x5 negatives I worked on in Experimental last week. I'm pretty happy with the results given it was my first time doing anything with the mordancage process, but there is definitely a lot of room for improvement. Aside from the obvious aesthetic effect, other things I noticed when I printed these were a decrease in negative density (3-4 stops in the enlarger), a significant drop in contrast (2.5 filter before, 4.5 after), and an almost total loss of highlight detail where it hadn't veiled. If you have patience, a gentle touch, and don't mind an imperfection here, there, or everywhere, I'd recommend trying it!

Hante...

These are a couple of images from Chris's Guerilla Lighting class shoot last night at the four corners classic car yard. i was going for a ghost-like effect...being the full moon and all. Fun times.