Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Great TV Tonight


Weds. has become a crowded night for highly improbable but extremely-entertaining TV, with both Supernatural and The Americans.
The Americans tonight hinges on the shooting of Ronal Reagan, so it should be interesting.

Learn B&W from Zone VI's Fred Picker

Calumet has remastered and re-released Fred Picker's (founder of Zone VI) three important B&W photo videos from the 1990s, Printing; The Camera; and The Negative: Exposure and Development and is offering the DVD w/ all three for $9.99 this week to celebrate Ansel Adams' 111th birthday.
Picker was an enormously important figure in the revival of interest in B&W, large format and slow photography. He had very strong opinions about how things should be done, and while he might not have always produced the most exciting work, he was right about the best ways to print, develop and shoot. 
Highly recommended.
See it here.

Printing Ansel Adams' Negatives

Here's a short piece about printing Ansel Adams' negatives - we wish it were longer and more detailed, but it is what it is:
Read it here.