+1 if you understand the importance of this window

[DG Phototraining]

They aren't comparable or relevant to each other.

Don't set him off again - if you look through his Lumby blog thing you'll see he's a 'student of photography' so pointless discussion is a specialty



So - it looks like we've killed this thread then

What next ??? How about a discussion about how stupid it is to shoot with anything but a Nikon ???



Dave

 

[Andysnap]

Don't set him off again - if you look through his Lumby blog thing you'll see he's a 'student of photography' so pointless discussion is a specialty



So - it looks like we've killed this thread then

What next ??? How about a discussion about how stupid it is to shoot with anything but a Nikon ???



Dave

 

[Donnie]

how knowing anything about Fox Talbot will help anyone take a better photo
Dave

Who's fox talbot?

 

[Ed Sutton]

....pointless discussion is a specialty

Sussed!

 

[DuncanDisorderly]

Photographer Sam Cornwell recently decided to embark on a pilgrimage to this site that played a huge role in the beginnings of photography. He spent three days traveling from his home in Hayling, Portsmouth to Lacock Abbey, and brought along his mobile darkroom — a trailer attached to the back of his car. One of his goals was to recreate the first negative as a wet-plate photograph to keep as a memento of the pilgrimage.

Well worth watching (as long as you can ignore the grinding AF on the video camera)...
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/12/10...ney-to-one-of-the-birthplaces-of-photography/

 

[Pookeyhead]

If he wanted to pay homage to Fox Talbot, why didn't he produce a paper negative?

 

[Ed Sutton]

Quite timely to bring this thread to the top again - http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddes...y-bid-fox-talbot-archive?intcmp=ILCMUSTXT9384

 

[ukaskew]

I live a few miles away, drive past it all the time, but have never been there. Much like Longleat, it's almost too close to call it a day out (if that makes any sense).

 

[Simon photo]

Interesting read! But again, no mention of Hershel with his sodium thiosulphate.

 

[Forbiddenbiker]

+1 from me. Shot this many years ago at kentwell hall in a daft homage to his type of image.

Yes i know its nothing like it.

 

[Simon photo]

This is somethin i did in the summer.
I was experimenting in making my own silver gelatin emulsion, with limited success.
However, with enough exposure to bright enough light i managed this

Ignore the mess its the piece of paper in the middle of the frame.
Its my very own "oriel window moment"

 

[Forbiddenbiker]

thats cool simon, Its really caught the detail hasn't it....its so like magic when it works.

 

[Simon photo]

+1 from me. Shot this many years ago at kentwell hall in a daft homage to his type of image.

Yes i know its nothing like it.

only just seen your post, thats an awesome image!!! sure you aint got a time machine but there is something a bit tudor about the ladies???

 

[Forbiddenbiker]

Thanks, its pretty poor distortion wise in those verticals and dirty in their faces with a dodge tool in reality ....Twas back to my film days in the dark room ..

Its a Tudor re-enactment day at a place called Kentwell Hall (Essex I think it was) highly recommended if you have children to entertain.
They have a camera obscura as too... hence me remembering a foxy fella and then taking this shot.