Thunderhead Over St Marks

[Chris Calohan II]

 

[Asher Kelman]

Those are tremendous clouds, quite forbidding! The bottom layer is fabulous, like a sky monster proceeding g left to right! !

[Are you a purist? Would you ever contemplate removing the white cloud intruding from right and a tiny amount from the left or that would be a treachery to the truth?]

What is that water mass? Is it part of the ocean or a lake?

I myself collect such clouds excitedly, if I find them. I pull over from the highway to take a picture or find a parking garage to get to the roof to get a shot!

It’s as if I have won a prize or been blessed with good fortune hoping that it will be perfect for the day when there’s no cloud in sight and that’s what’s needed to complete a picture.

So this is a joy to me and you have a wonderful print ready right now for some lucky client!

Asher

 

[Chris Calohan II]

I generally frame in camera and am unlikely to remove or add in most cases...so somewhat of a purist.

 

[Asher Kelman]

I generally frame in camera and am unlikely to remove or add in most cases...so somewhat of a purist.

Nicolas Claris does the same! I however do much of my work with overlapping pictures which I stitch at home and so I am always recreating scenes I could only create with a lens I don’t have with me. So I have less of a conscience about hiding things that I feel shouldn’t be there as I am cheating anyway.

I also take a lot of lectures of rolling the studio with intent of placing butterflies on fingertips and tall redwood trees in the background.

So since at birth of my ideas I have already stolen sky of a collection of years back so I feel it’s permitted.

I might emphasize a few wrinkles my wife has earned with wonderful times of laughter. But otherwise, I try to be truthful!

Asher

 

[Chris Calohan II]

Send me a good .tif of you and your wife in silly costumes together, then one of each of you looking quite serious or philosophical or the like with moody lighting and I will do some Platinum prints.

 

[Will Thompson]

What camera model did you use and was it a contact print or did you use a enlarger?

A stunning presentation regardless.

It has been around 50 years since I’ve made a contact print!

 

[Chris Calohan II]

What camera model did you use and was it a contact print or did you use a enlarger?

A stunning presentation regardless.

It has been around 50 years since I’ve made a contact print!

I shot this one with a Nikon Z8 coupled to a 17-35 Tokina. From the digital image, I made a digital negative using a Bostick & Sullivan .acv Platinum curve. While the entire process for making a digital negative sounds complicated, I assure you it is not.

For a more detailed explanation, go to: https://www.bostick-sullivan.com/kit-instructions/

My UV unit cost less than $200 and consists of 20, 9wt UV LED bulbs spaced tightly together in a 26W x 22L x 9.5 D" box. I use hinged split-back contact frames so I can determine print exposure times (though in my instance, my times rarely go shorter or longer than a minute 25 seconds). The lights are 5" above the glass on my frames. Processing takes around 32 minutes for the developing, clearing and washing.