Over the past two weekends I made roughly thirty-five prints (about half color and half B&W). Yesterday afternoon Leslie K. Brown, curator of the Photographic Resource Center at B.U., looked over my portfolio. It was a good experience — rather like I thought it would be.
What did I learn? I have some […]

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The setup:

Epson 2200
MIS Ultratone (UT7) inkset - including the Eboni matte black ink
Adobe Photoshop CS
Image working/color space: Adobe RGB (1998)
16-bit RGB mode
Paul Roark UT7 for 2200 curves loaded into adjustment layers
Photoshop “Print with Preview” settings:

Color Management - Yes
Source space - Document: Adobe RGB (1998)
Print space - Profile: Same as source

Epson print driver/RIP:

Print size: 6-by-9 inches
Paper: […]

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I’ve said it before: printing black-and-white photographs at home is a dark art. Of course, printing B&W in a traditional “wet” darkroom takes years of learning and mistakes before you can count yourself among the elect.
What’s the best paper and inkset combination to use?
Which printer and color management settings yield the best results?
How do […]

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We finished painting the first floor of our house early last week — Churchill Hotel Ecru walls and Barnwood trim — but there’s just so much going on right now . . .
The Newton Camera Club started the 2005-2006 year last Monday. A lot of people did some pretty interesting things over the summer. […]

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Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Part One — Northwest

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“You know, if you had picked a smaller state — like Rhode Island — you could be done with your project.” Lisa and I were talking about my Commonwealth project, which was winding up its second year. “I bet you could do that in a solid week of work.”
A week? How about […]

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The term “third world” puts my teeth on edge. And I’ve heard it in the news a lot recently. Can we stop using it?
I know that it’s a translation from the French, supposedly to designate “one third of the world” — even though it’s really more like two-thirds. Sure, “developing world” has […]

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You still have a few days left to read for free the New York Times‘ review of “Acting Out: Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography” at SUNY Purchase. (After the 8th, you’ll have to go to your library to read the article for free or pay the Times or stop by my office . . […]

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A couple of photography exhibits challenge some cherished beliefs about truth. In Australia, one explores photographs as one of the “most problematic forms of visual representation.” Another in the Boston area exposes the limits of digital truth in contemporary photography. And it would be wrong of me not to mention ParkeHarrison, whose […]

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Sepoy over at Chapati Mystery gives the subcontinental perspective — and links to many interesting articles — on the floods in New Orleans and Bombay. (Sepoy, a grad student in the U.S., has quite an interesting and readable blog, by the way.)
And I’ll add a link to On Point’s segment today on Race, Poverty […]

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A few weeks ago I almost posted this snippet from the BBC:
“Why does a week of heavy monsoon rain kill more than 400 people, cause damage estimated at nearly $700m, and completely paralyse life in a bustling metropolis?” ask Mumbai residents according to a bleak report by the BBC. Those numbers were early figures; […]

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