Tuesday, March 02, 2004
I just bought a wafer thin Canon flatbed scanner so I can now scan my prints to add new work to the website and to put up some auctions on ebay. I do have three pictures on ebay right now that end March 7. I plan to keep adding new work on a regular basis. In my ebay store I have a bunch of my past inkjet prints. All the new work I'm selling on ebay is silver gelatin enlargements.
It is definitely harder to print using an enlarger than using a computer and inkjet printer. It took a few sessions to work out the kinks in my darkroom printing, but I feel now I can get what I want in a print.
I've been slogging through the posts on the analog photo users group trying to decide on a formula for alkaline fix for my negatives. I've used TF-4 from Photographer's Formulary but I ran out and for some reason I don't want to just order more, I want to make my own (maybe I'm cheap?), but it seems everyone who makes their own, has their own secret recipe. So it's a bit confusing on what formula to use. And then I have to figure out where to get all the needed chemicals. Art Craft Chemicals doesn't seem to have all that I need so I don't know where to get the rest. Ahhh, maybe a small order of TF-4 will do and buy me some time to figure this out. There's negatives to get working on.
I think I've said this before, but it really feels good to be printing in the darkroom and making photos the traditional way. For me, I came to realize that I didn't feel like I was making real photographs when I was using the inkjet printer.
It is definitely harder to print using an enlarger than using a computer and inkjet printer. It took a few sessions to work out the kinks in my darkroom printing, but I feel now I can get what I want in a print.
I've been slogging through the posts on the analog photo users group trying to decide on a formula for alkaline fix for my negatives. I've used TF-4 from Photographer's Formulary but I ran out and for some reason I don't want to just order more, I want to make my own (maybe I'm cheap?), but it seems everyone who makes their own, has their own secret recipe. So it's a bit confusing on what formula to use. And then I have to figure out where to get all the needed chemicals. Art Craft Chemicals doesn't seem to have all that I need so I don't know where to get the rest. Ahhh, maybe a small order of TF-4 will do and buy me some time to figure this out. There's negatives to get working on.
I think I've said this before, but it really feels good to be printing in the darkroom and making photos the traditional way. For me, I came to realize that I didn't feel like I was making real photographs when I was using the inkjet printer.
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