Digital Still Sucks

david pulkingham

photographed at Symphony Square in Austin, Texas June 15, 2018

After putting it off for many years I have begun my project of photographing the the individuals that comprise the “Ohana” of the Austin Music.

It’s okay-look it up. For anyone interested in being included or for anyone who has suggestions of who should be added to my list, send me a note and let me know.

I am offering my studio and darkroom for a possible share/sublet.

This is the link to the craigslist ad:

https://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/ats/d/darkroom-for-share-sublet-alt/6651899605.html

The final clearing bath of a 24 x 30 inch Platinum / Palladium print from this morning.

platinum / palladium print on japanese kozo paper

prague  1993/2013 

#? (sorry haven’t gotten that far but something like 71 I think)

palladium print edition of 3    22 x 18 inches

2016

Another photographically enlarged 13 x 17 inch negative from an original 35mm neg of Ilford HP-5 shot at 800ASA and processed in my version of D-76.

The enlarged negative for contact printing (n this case a palladium print) was made on Arista Ortho 3.0 and developed in a version of an old Agfa developer they called Agfa 120. Generally the dilutions of this Agfa formula with the new Arista film is around 1:12 - 1:15 depending on the original POSITIVE image.

Oh yeah forgot that. The original neg is first contacted on FP-4 to get a flat positive image from which one creates the enlarged neg on the big sheet film.

Recently while purchasing paper at NYC Art , a fellow traveler who dabbled in the medium called me “insane”.

I took it as a compliment.

straight, dusty, low res scan of another recent neg made on my dwindling supply of Type 55 Polaroid.

I opened a recently purchased box that is yet to even generate an image. Just one of the downsides of rolling the dice on expired film.

 But then you get ones like this and it’s all worth it.

For the record the neg takes a prolonged “development” with added rolling of the contact points and the emulsion in the sleeve then gets a hot water rinse before the sulfite clearing bathe. Another step is added as well as the negs are toned in a selenium bath (1:3) at 80F for several minutes. This changes the negative density and yields a better gradation ATMO.

cyclo-cross nationals, asheville, nc

fresh from saturday’s session. more classic outdated film and more pyro mixed up by me. for the second shoot back from over seven years away from shooting bodies it seems as though all the parts still work.

type 55 polaroid.

Quite possibly one of the best NEGATIVE films ever made. As my supply dwindles and in some cases ages to the point of malfunctioning (note that the emulsion remains stellar even when over a decade out of date - it’s the paper backing and such that causes the problem) I do not look forward to the day when it is truly gone.

One can only hope to have made good use of it while it was around.

grumpy dan with his big hair.

Photographed on Sunday, September 27, 2015 before Day 2 of the

The obligatory Dan Chabanov picture from another hot & dusty GP Gloucester.

Photographed on Sunday, September 27, 2015.

File this under “if you ain’t rubbin’ you ain’t racin’ “.

September 13, 2015

The obligatory post race coca-cola photo from Nittany CX in Pennsylvania with special guest star Weiste Bosmans savouring his reward for coming first for the second day in a row.

Hasselblad 503CX 80mm lens shot on Kodak TX400 exposed at 200ASA and developed in my version of D-76 / ID-11 for a really long time.

ben  2015

photographed on Sunday, September 13, 2015 in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania after a hard fought and muddy fourth place finish at Nittany CX.

presented with no comment.

After spending most of the Summer in the studio and in the darkroom, September means cyclo-cross and Sunday was week one for me at Nittany Cross in Pennsylvania.