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EDITOR'S NOTE: This image below was posted several days later after my mom let me know that I had posted the window washer picture not too long before. In my late/night early morning haze trying to post I just had forgotten I had posted the window washer with another image call a 'Wall relief of Michele'. So this is a make up picture from the same era and same drive to experiment with brand new techniques---at least brand new to me as a 19 year old photo student with very little previous know how. This image was made by shooting a roll of film normally. This is a picture of my great friend Duane Thomas. Duane and I would go out shooting together alot(and for Chinese food lunches). Duane was much more advanced in photography than I was and he taught me a great deal, in fact if it wasn't for Duane I probably wouldn't have made it very far in photography because I just struggled with almost every part of the process in school. After shooting the roll normally I then purposely did everything wrong. I developed the negatives in a colder than normal developer for a longer time. I then used a nearly boiling hot stop bath (here is where I learned how hot metal can get when you put boiling water into it) and then finished it off with fixer that I had put into the freezer for about 20 minutes. Its called reticulation and I got about 4 pictures out of it that I liked including this one. Sorry for the re-post below--I hope this makes up for it. Photograph by Richard Sayer. I'm not sure if I've posted this picture or not--its one of those ones that I keep hanging on to and even though I wouldn't have it in a portfolio today, its still one of my best pictures. It is pretty straightforward really, nothing special in terms of photography. I just saw it and snapped it(along with about a half dozen other students from the Rhode Island School of Photography on a field trip to Boston in 1985.) I twas shot a little looser than this because I didn't have a longer lens at the time--I think this was shot with either a 85mm or a 135mm--though I really can't remember. This particular image is actually a digital photo of the mounted photo that I made in the Darkroom in 1985 and entered into the Professional Photographers of Rhode Island annual contest where it did very well. I still have this print although its not on display--it is in a portfolio case. I've been thinking alot lately about how little photography I actually have hanging up in my house. Maybe I should do something about this. I have a frame finally for a print my friend Craig gave me from his Pulitzer prize winning essay--so I hope that makes it onto the wall soon. Maybe I bring this one out and see if it looks good enough to still hang up..it looks like it might have some surface stuff and might need to be re-printed! On from the vaults by Richard Sayer--sorry if I've already posted it.
1 Comment
Mom
8/14/2011 11:44:22 am
I remember when you took this one, although I was not there on that trip, I remember how excited you were about this picture. Guess it is one of my favorites of your earlier photography! Leave a Reply. |