Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Today is the first day of the 2-day workshop on printing large (16x20), hosted by Kate Jordhal. Because of her and other people's work, apparently the Foothill community college is fairly well known for their photography program. The lab has a ~20 Saunder/LPC enlargers and the usual equipments. Most printers are actually regular CC students with just a small few of us doing the workshop. Some of the work are quite nice. There are negs from 35mm to 4x5, and even a few of digital negatives for contact printing. Thing one: standing on one's feet from 9 to 5 is a killer. People with retail jobs must have strong legs. I managed to print two images - one from a 6x7 neg and one from an XPan neg. I printed some 8x10 prints from the 6x7 neg before and they look pretty decent, but blowing up? Just doesn't cut it. I think I will need to try a different contrast interpretation. The XPan, OTOH, holds up pretty well. Printing large means significantly longer exposure time (duh). It also means shorter people like I have trouble turning the focusing know and look through the grain focuser at the same time! Dodging and burning get more challenging too. I think I will select a couple Leica negs and try them tomorrow. -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963