Archives for 2011

Last week I posted most of the text of an e-mail that I sent to the CPA membership, in which I thanked many people for what they have done for the CPA during my term as president. In trying to make the text short enough for a mass e-mail, I left out a lot of… [Read More]

Yesterday a slightly longer version of the following message went out to the CPA membership: In January, 2009, Chuck Davis, then president of the CPA Board of Trustees, asked me to join the Board. Together with Huntington Witherill and David Bayles, I came on the Board the next month. In March, I agreed to be… [Read More]

The biggest differences between chemical and digital photography occur after the image is captured. I found it instructive to go through the exhaustive – and exhausting – details of the chemical and digital photographic processes in the previous posts.  Going through the exercise of writing and reviewing the descriptions leads me to the following conclusions:… [Read More]

Having figured out from the proofed images which ones I wanted to print, here’s what I is to do (toward the end, I have elided a great deal of the detail so as to minimize boredom – both mine and yours): Turn on the safe light; let it warm up while doing the following. Dilute… [Read More]

Here’s the way I used to proof 35mm B&W negatives (I used plastic pages as a negative storage and proofing device, tolerating the loss of proofing sharpness and eliminating several potentially negative damaging steps using methods that permit direct negative to proofing paper contact): Turn on the safe light; let it warm up while doing… [Read More]