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Fran wrote: I've been having much better than expected results with a pano pinhole camera. So although the negs are too big for my enlarger, I decided to contact print them. It took a session or two to get to grips with it, particularly dodging and burning blind! Anyway, I finished them up and dry mounted them yesterday. I'm fairly happy with the results - these are bound for various print exchanges I'm involved in.

Dry mounting pinhole contact prints from realitysosubtle 617 camera by francis morrin, on Flickr

Leaving aside the obvious quality of your images Fran, I am very impressed with your professional presentation. Are you cutting and bevelling your own mounts?

Yep. I have a fairly decent mount cutter, plus a dry mount press (a beast of a thing) so I tend to mount in the traditional way. I buy standard size frames and can then cut the mount to suit both the print and the frame...

It does give a nice finish to it. Those ones above though are just dry mounted onto the mount board.


Fran

Fran wrote:Yep. I have a fairly decent mount cutter, plus a dry mount press (a beast of a thing) so I tend to mount in the traditional way. I buy standard size frames and can then cut the mount to suit both the print and the frame...

It does give a nice finish to it. Those ones above though are just dry mounted onto the mount board.


Fran

I couldn't really make out whether they were bevel mounted or dry mounted from the image Fran; I can now make out that you have a border on the print itself which enhances the dry mounting.

I only had a simple bevel cutting tool and it took me a bit of time to master it initially. Not sure if I would have the eyes or the steady hand required nowadays! I think that I would probably need considerable practice before being successful again!

One can become a tad anal about these things but I am never sure which version of this particulare image that I prefer....










....my natural instinct is to frame or crop tightly as in image 2 but I feel that something is missing when compareed to imade 1.

Definitely image 1 for me, but what the hell do I know!

yeah, I think I prefer the composition in #1 - the other looks a little more crowded and as the figures are smaller it makes the scene look more interesting.... I think!

I am inclined towards No. 1 myself guys. I think that it is more expansive and contextual; although No. 2 always had more immediate impact for me - but then that is not always everything.

I'm at-tracked to that photo Fergus....



Here's another pinhole!

A cold day in the Sliabh Blooms by francis morrin, on Flickr

Excellent stuff chaps.... all great photos!!

I'm coming to an end of a small marathon of scanning, from the 25 rolls I am now down to one and a half. Various problems with scanning turned out to be issues with Adobe Elements, which will not accept images longer than 30K pixels. Fortunately windows photo viewer will work with large files, but it is slow on a sata drive. My storage is almost full... only 10 GB left.... so I will be looking at options for storage in the coming months.

If I get the time I'll try to post up a few images tomorrow.