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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Warning...No Midtones!!
From: vintagebill at verizon.net (bill harting)
Date: Sat Dec 9 12:32:18 2006
References: <C1A06167.40165%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Only Midtowns



Mark Rabiner wrote:
> On 12/9/06 8:37 AM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> typed:
> 
>> Montie
>>
>> Two questions. Where went all the mid tones and do you travel with a
>> companion who silhouettes for you? :-)
>>
>> Montie wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I couldn't sleep due to a day filled with too much
>>> coffee soooooo I decided it might be a good time to
>>> upload some photos into the gallery...it's 2:50 AM eastern
>>> (at least Rabiner is probably still up).
>>>
>>> 5 images from my "Antiquity" series...I'm putting these
>>> together for competition so critique hard if you will.
>>> More to follow as I get them scanned. (commercially).
>>>
>>> These images all started life as Kodachromes...all but one
>>> were projected printed onto 8x10 high contrast copy film
>>> and then contacted neg to pos for a generation or two with
>>> the finals ending up as 4x5 commercial copy negs - (MP3)
>>> copy camera.  Scanned into photoshop (imacon) for adding
>>> some lighting effects and a few middle densities.
>>>
>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/montoid/MONTIE16.jpg.html>
>>>
> Looks like developed in a lye developer like D8
> Or high alkalinity carbonate film contrast developer like D11 or D19. Or a
> paper developer.
> And printed on Agfa Brovira #6 in Straight Dektol. No chasers.
> Shaken but not stirred.
> Very effective line shots usually they look like hell.
> "Kodoliths" my friends used to call them
> But that's a brand name.
> Like calling a tissue a "Kleenex".
> So  many classic black and white shots in our memories or at least mine or
> Kodachrome. Lots of Helmut Newton's shots like in that big book.
> Speaking of which I was picking up my film at Duggal the night before last
> and I was crossing over to find Broadway because I was on the wrong street
> and there was this very tall women with an extremely tall package heading
> toward me on the dark farily empty street with dyed blond hair.
> And it was Sigourney Weaver! She looked warily at me as we passed on the
> sidewalk. When I got home I started a "celebrity watch" database.
> I saw a guy in Greenwich Village (my first time there) with white hair who
> I've seen in a million movies but have been driving myself crazy as to 
> which
> ones so I can add him to my database. A great character actor! Probably in 
> a
> Broadway or off Broadway show at this point. One of those lovable character
> actors.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Rabiner
> 
> 
> 
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