[Largeformat] Re: Attachments

["Thomas L Labron" <norbal@okstate.edu>]

From: "Thomas L Labron" <norbal@okstate.edu>

Vic,

     Haven't you done a lot of burning and dodging.  It is truly an art.  I
have done it and have been pretty good at it, but would rather be able to
make a straight print, but like everything else with my photography it is
past tense.  I still have a variety of spots, discs and circles that I used
and all different shapes of cardboard to do almost anything with to make a
good print.  The big problems is record keeping if see yourself having to
reproduce your photo.  I usually made a master print and kept a paper in an
envelope with it telling of aperture/exposure time, etc. and a map of the
print and the number of the item/items used to assist in the dodging or
burning process.

     Oh how I love big prints.  Granted, like you, I have kept mine smaller
than 20X30 because a print that size in a home can be overwhelming.  I
stick to matted 16X20's in a 20X24 frame.  That pretty much makes enough of
a statement for me.  The thing that I would like to mention here is that
once a print is hung it is not cemented to the wall.  While overseas my
wife and I collected and framed a lot of art pieces and we have a lot, but
about every quarter we change the wall hangings.  It is great because when
people come to your house and they have been there before the whole house
looks different.  The same can be said for area carpets.  Changing them in
a room makes it all look different.  I switch my pictures at work also,
which reminds me it is about time to do that again, but I have a 20X30
matted print of a Kirov class Cruiser I took in the Straits of Singapore on
my wall at work and it sure commands lot of attention behind my desk when
people first walk in the office and see it.

     And no, this is too good of a discussion to go private.

God Bless and Keep You and Yours,

Regards from Pawnee America and have a Happy New Year,

Tom La Bron
LTA  Oklahoma State University
Office E-mail: norbal@okstate.edu
Home E-mail:   norbalt@juno.com
Website URL:   http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6309
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