Let me see if I've got this right...
The reports that the PO is using weapons of mass destruction on mail only
within certain Washington and New York area Zip codes are not true???
Bill Pearce
----- Original Message -----
From: "AG Schnozz" <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 9:16 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Controlled experiment - includes flying, wife, digital, Ag
Snozz
> Chris B wrote:
>> Gary, That sounded like a lot of fun, and responsibility.
>> Well done for seeing it through and I am looking forward to
>> seeing the results.
>
> I saw SOME of the results. <smile> My wife appreciates having
> the half of the house that were covered in drying fiber 8x10s
> back again. (over four days I printed around 500 pictures of
> which about 100 were B&W enlargements)
>
> I don't think Gary will mind my expounding on this a tiny bit.
>
> The aerials were "challenging" to say the least. Not only was
> there a haze that morning, but the x-ray damage (and bio-nuker)
> caused at least a full-stop, if not two worth of "background
> noise" and loss of latitude on the film. One roll was worse
> than the other, but both were damaged.
>
> If you know my printing style, you know that I approach B&W
> slightly different than I do color. It is my goal to get at
> least a teeny tiny bit of black and white in the print,
> somewhere. I believe that B&W is by it's very nature,
> "Abstract". As such, you have to define the visual boundaries to
> establish points of reference for the viewer. I can count on
> one hand the number of prints I've made where this didn't
> happen.
>
> Here I sit with a roll of aerials that are flatter than flat.
> To get the high/low values I'd have to be punching Grade 5, and
> with the amount of enlargement necessary and the enhanced grain
> from the x-ray damage, that would yield golf-ball sized grain.
> Not only that, but the lighting was changing and he had changed
> filters which altered the color response on everything from
> trees to the pink granite court house. NOW he tells me it was
> PINK! Here I am trying to get two different aerials to match up
> and they were taken with two different color filters! If it was
> white granite, they would have matched! I've GOT to start
> charging for test prints. <grin> It was a challenge to get the
> contrast levels right without making the grain look like a
> Berber Carpet.
>
> So we have one particular frame picked out. Nice. I make a
> print and, lo and behold, there is a vertical band in the photo
> that is blurry. Everything else is sharp. Hmm? I was a little
> slow to catch on, but it was caused by the vibration from that
> beautiful rotary engine. It caught Gary mid-exposure as the
> shutter slit was going past the film. Fortunately the next
> frame was ok.
>
> It was a very cool project, and I'm thankful for Gary sending me
> the business. As he will attest to, I do give discounts for big
> projects. Gary does good work and I really enjoyed being part
> of this project.
>
> Now, I just wonder about the stability of silver prints in an
> argon atmosphere...
>
> AG
>
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