Most of the photographs within this site are
color and shot with Minolta, Olympus, and Nikon 35mm cameras. Kodachrome
has always been my film of choice for several reasons: sharpness, brightness
of color, color saturation through underexposure, and its archival properties.
And when Kodachrome didn't have enough color, I resorted to the following
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"The
Process"
| Originally developed by Walt Allen, an Ohio University
professor, to develop color slide film to a negative in order to
enhance the natural colors. It was based on the E-3 process with
an additional
B&W developer and bleach. The entire process usually
took about 50 minutes to complete. Rick McKee started experimenting
with this process and was substituting color slide film with Kodak
color infrared film. The results were bright, bold colors especially
in the negative areas. Some of his results were so striking that
the process became known as "The Process." I tried to duplicate
Rick's results but could not consistently get the beautiful colors.
I remedied this by re-exposing the film (sabatier effect) during
the first development process with a small electronic flash covered
with a colored gel filter. Because the film was wet during this
re-exposure, some of the water drops on the film became part of
the final image. |
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Color Infrared Film
| The photos that have the deep cyan and magenta colors
are the result of combining green and yellow wratten filters over
the lens. I found that the brightest colors were achieved under
full sun in the early afternoon during the months of June and July.
I also achieved beautiful muted cyan and magenta colors with the
same filtration on overcast or rainy day. Usually, the
only other filter I would use with color Infrared film was a glass
polarizer. Combinations of the polarizing filter with variations
of the green and yellow wratten filters would usually bring out
red, yellow, and brown colors. I found these colors desirable for
my nature photography. |
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Old Boat Docks, Mill Creek
Park
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Telegraph Swamp, Mill
Creek Park
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Rick McKee (right) and
I along the coast, south of San Francisco
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Graphics
| Many of the graphic images are contact prints from
slides using color print film. Colors were enhanced by adding the
sabatier effect during the developer stage of this C-22 process.
To make the color outline within the image, I would create line
drawings from the slides and sandwich these with the originals
before making the print. The sabatier effect would put color into
these lines, depending on color filtration. |
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Youngstown Businessman
(roll-over for original image)
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Posterizations
| The posterizations are standard 4 color separations.
The separations were made in an enlarger by projecting the 35mm
slide onto 8"x 10" high contrast films. These films were then
put in register with each other and exposed onto a single frame
of
35 mm film with specific colors. (4 exposures per posterized image) |
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Yield, Mill Creek Park
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Henry Moore, Touch
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Mill Creek Park Bench |
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Panoramas
| I began shooting panoramic photos for 3 screen wide
multi-media slide shows. I knew my cameras viewfinder well enough
to eyeball the cutoffs between each slide that made up the panorama.
Final alignment adjustments were made by adjusting slides in the
mount. I got pretty good at it.
With Photoshop, I’ve been able to assemble the 3 images
into a single panorama photo.
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Garden Railway - San Diego |
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Effects
I always loved this effect: Use two slide projectors and run
a 2 minute dissolve between a normal slide and an infra-red slide.
As long as the two images are in perfect registration, the effect
is phenomenal. A rollover will have to do for the web
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Mill Creek Park, Youngstown
- Gorge
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