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Another Fun Thread How about posting the first photograph we shot that people said that they really liked. In Kerry's case, we will settle for the first shot you can remember people liking. here's mine. It was shot in 1981. Have fun and keep shooting,
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- Bob Cournoyer Contact Bob Cournoyer Bob Cournoyer's Gallery  |
Don't go away, I've got to do some digging in the closet for this one. I know what it is, I just don't know where it is....
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Christopher A. Vedros |
Mark, At first I thought your signature at the bottom right was a tattoo on her arm, then I remembered teenage girls didn't get tattoos back in the 80s! Mine will be the first picture I took that someone else hung on their wall. It was for Intermediate Photography when I was at LSU, also in the 80s. My sister-in-law had it in her apartment for years, then she gave it back to me when she moved, because she knew that it couldn't be reproduced. I need to get it out of the frame and scan it. Chris
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Sorry Chris. No, it's not a tatoo. I had a portfolio stolen, so along with my copyright on the back of my prints, I also add my initials on the front. I just use a gold enamel paint pen so the paint eats into the emulsion. The only way to get it off is to damage the print. I cheat.
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Kerry L. Walker |
Gee, it's hard to really decide. Two of my favorites were river crossings but I don't even have the originals anymore. One was of Caesar crossing the Rubicon but it got destroyed when Rome was sacked. The other was Washington crossing the Delaware but some joker painted over it in oil and claimed it as an original oil painting. Oh, well. Seriously, the first one that I remember people really liking was the B&W I have in my gallery. It was shot in 1867 (or was that 1967, can't remember) with a Rollei TLR and was the final page in our HS yearbook that year.
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Christopher A. Vedros |
Okay, I finally pulled mine out and scanned it. The assignment was to alter a print using the Sabbatier effect. For anyone not familiar with it, you expose a print normally, put it in the developer until the image starts to appear, then pull it out and expose it to white light, then complete the developing. You end up with bright lines along edges between light and dark areas, and it looks something like solarization. The effect works best with high contrast images. I chose a profile of my girlfriend (now my wife) as my starting image. I didn't really print it with enough contrast, though, so the effect only worked on part of the image. I was very pleased with the results, though. What makes this image very special to me is that it's one-of-a-kind. I repeated the process several times, but couldn't get it to come out anywhere close to this again. Chris
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