End of Season Sale: Barbershop Prints!

 Hey folks! Hope the increasingly nice weather has been making its way around, because it seems to have been here in Findlay, OH for quite some time. :)

 As Spring 2012 comes to a close, the final bit of spring cleaning is about to go with it. For a limited time, I'm offerring the remaining half of my solo exhibition "Dapper". The show was a great success, and the matted, mounted prints that are here need to get onto some wallspace ASAP. If you've been waiting for the chance to snag up a print from my Barbershops Series, there's no better chance than now!

Simply check the listing below for size availability, select your desired print, and buy it now. Prints are all hand-printed, B&W silver gelatin fiber prints, selenium toned, matted, and mounted, ready to hang. They are also one-ofs, so once each print is sold, there won't be another of that print at this price. 

Thanks for stopping by, and long live film! :)

8x10" Prints

Service Barbershop, Swanson's Redux, Varsity Barbers, Alvino's Barbershop, B.G. Barbershop, Larry's Barbershop, Ace Barbershop, Park Barberstyle, Olde Thyme Barbershop, Main-Bexley Barber, Nick's Barbershop, and Trenton Ave. Barbershop.

11x14" Prints

South Lyon Barbershop, Mike's Barbershop, Anthony Wayne Barbershop, Clipper Barbershop, and New-Retro Barbershop.

16x20" Prints

Good Times Barbershop and John Henry Barber & Styling.

Barbershop Matted Mounted Prints

8x10" Print, Matted 11x14$60.00 USD 11x14" Print, Matted 16x20$90.00 USD 16x20" Print, Matted 24x30$150.00 USD

Spring Cleaning Specials!

Hope everyone has enjoyed the holiday weekend, or at very least the lovely Spring weather that seems to be everywhere at once. Spring means one thing here in the darkroom, and that's clean-up! While doing some deep cleaning, I came across some more prints that I'm now pleased to offer you at a fabulous price. :) Each week this month, I'll be offering up a new print for sale, but since these are one-of, ready to hang prints, once these deals are gone, they're gone!

Why just favorite it when you can own it? -->

First up is one of my Top 10 most viewed, favorited, and shared images, Lauren in Times Square. This 10x10" Kodak Endura RA-4 color print will come pre-matted, mounted, and enclosed in a 16x16" matte black brushed metal frame. The framed print is wired, and ready to hang, all you have to do is click the button below.

 That's it for this week's deal, tune in next week for an even BIGGER print offer. ^__^

8x10 in Infrared

My first IR image ever! Spring weather has been around for nearly a month here in Northwest Ohio, with more cloudless, sunny days so far than I can recall in the past four years! With skies so clear and temps so moderate, it was only a matter of time before I thawed out "the stash" and tried my luck at infrared (IR) photography.

For those who've never heard of IR before, basically you're capturing electromagnetic radition in the 700nm wavelength range and up (depending on your film/camera's sensitivity). This unique range of light results in a very distinct look to the infrared photos. They're often recognized by deep dark skies, jet black water, dreamy white foliage, and kinda creepy tonal reproduction on people. I'll just be talking about is B&W infrared, as there's really not a lot of color IR film left out there. A vast majority of the IR work you'll see out there is from modified DSLR's, which have a wide range of IR effects. With film infrared, the results are a lot more about the film and filtration, and less about the camera used.

Mmm, mmm those dreamy highlights!A little over 6 months ago, I found a gentleman selling all sizes of Efke 820c infrared film for dirt cheap prices. Doing what any film shooter with G.A.S. would do, I bought a 50 sheet case of 8x10, hoping for the day I would have a good IR filter and some nice weather in Ohio. Thanks to Leslie at Imagine That!, it wasn't long before a nice Tiffen #87 filter came my way, and the experiementation began. Now whenever you start shooting an new film in large format, usually a fair amount of testing is required to get your process nailed down. Effective ASA, development times, dilutions, printing times, and more all change along with the newly added variable. Thankfully, this was the fourth (maybe fifth) film I've taken the time to test, so the process wasn't too wasteful, only two sheets "lost" in the testing process. For some practitioners of the Zone System/Beyond the Zone System/Other Zone Systems, film testing can easily get out of hand, with dozens of sheets being sacrificed all in the name of meticulous control. I don't try that hard for the perfect exposure, but I did manage to bracket the inital test exposures and find a working ASA based off of the test sheets stain density. 

Looks good even with flare! Basing my tests off of the Efke IR 820c Data Sheet availalbe at Freestyle Photographic Supplies, it appeared that a #87 filter with this film would yeild an effective ASA of anywhere from 3-6. So, the first two sheets of film were exposed accordingly, accounting for this film's worse-than-Tri-X-reciprocity. My new standard development time for medium speed film is 12 minutes in Obsidian Aqua 1:500 at 70 deg. F. With the final image stain coming out in both images as much thinner than normal, the ASA 3 sheet "scan-able" but not printable, I knew I needed another stop of light to give these images the "pop" they needed. All of the images seen on today's blog post were taken at ASA 1.5, and though very long exposures, are exactly what I was looking for with this IR film. 

So what does everybody at home think? Keep going with this IR stuff? Personally, I like it enough to shoot it ocassionally, and printing it isn't that bad either. I don't foresee going off the deep end and only doing IR landscapes, but it's a neat novelty that may warrant its own gallery in the near future. Though these first attempts were fun, there's a limited supply I'm working with, and plenty of shots I'd like to reserve for traveling over the summer.

What I'm going for, maybe more clouds...If you'd like to try out your own infrared film, I'd suggest picking some up at Freestyle, as they have a larger selection than most, and are a one-stop-shop for all things analog. If you're hard up on a filter, you may want to snag one of those as well. So as long as you're up to spending a few frames and some time in the name of getting the right exposure/development times, infrared photography can offer you some very unique, visually exciting results. If you've got any more questions about IR techniques, large format IR concerns, or want to go out shooting IR sometime, hit me up via the comment option below, or the contact button at the top of this page.

As always, happy shooting, and long live film!