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MITÄ "ANALOGINEN" FILMIKUVAUS ON?

Analoginen valokuva on osa tiedonvälitystä jonka huippukausi sijoittui aikaan ennen television voittokulkua.legendaariset Hollywood muotokuvat ja isot kuvalehdet kuten LIFE lehti olivat tätä kulta-aikaa. televisio, video ja digikuva muuttivat tätä maailmaa, mutta ei kaikkien mielestä hyvään suuntaan. Minä ja monet muut pitävät perinteistä valokuvaa edelleen erittäin vahvana ja merkittävänä ilmaisukeinona, tapana kertoa ympäröivästä elämästä ja visuaalisista ilmiöistä.

Niille jotka haluavat "uudelleen löytää" tämän kielen, olen asettanut tavoitteeksi tarjota sekä oppia että materiaaleja oman sanomisen löytämiseen perinteisen filmikuvauksen kautta.

Tämä mediumi sisältää paljon mielenkiintoista käsityötä, jonkunverran tekniikkaa ja vaatii myös omat perinteiset työtapansa ja kaluston.
Asian mukava puoli on että tätä kaikkea, kameroita, filmiä, kemioita saa edelleen, kunhan osaa oikeasta paikasta etsiä.
www.123ProLab.com on sellainen paikka!

This Rollei IR photo by sakari pulkka.

Perinteinen valokuva toteuttaa ajatusta: Vähemmän on enemmän!
Kun karsitaan pois makeilevia värejä, visuaalisia taikatemppuja, päädytään kuvakieleen joka voimakkain visuaalisin signaalein viestittää tekijänsä näkemyksiä.

MV kuvaus on tavallaan meditaatiota ja löytöretkiä omaan kokemusmaailmaan.

Oppimalla hallitsemaan muutamia lainalaisuuksia ja tekniikoita, kuvaaja voi toteuttaa rajattomasti itseään. Kursseillani tästä löytää työkalut ja metodit.

SEURAAVILLA SIVUILLA INFOA MATERIAALEISTA JA KURSSEISTA.

Jos osaat englantia, on seuraavassa esitelty MV paletti eli osa keinoista jolla pääsee haluamaansa lopputulokseen.
Tähän on apuna myös valokuvauskirjat ja kurssit. Pidän kursseja aivan aloitustasosta, on myös kurssit vähän kehittyneemmilekin. Löydät infon seuraavasta osiosta
"Photo Courses"
"Products" osastossa on selvityksen saatavista materiaaleista, kemioista ja valokuva sekä digitaalisista vedostus papereista.

ABOUT MY PHOTOGRAPHY ?

I am conversating sometimes with my colleagues out of Finland about things photographic. To my comment on one of ERWIN PUTS´s ramblings about the future of photography, I recieved an email from Erwin. There he stated that sometimes we , afficionados of B&W photography are considered relics and idiots as we don`t understand to follow the times & trends (as pushed by photography magazines). My comment to him was that when the press and followers of Digital way of shooting images consider analog & especially the B&W photography outdated, I asked: Is Helmut Newton or Irving Penn and their B&W work outdated? Is Leica or Hasselblad outdated? I have two passions. B&W images and Jazz music When speaking about Jazz and especially playing it with a saxophone, I said: You know, Adolphe Saxe created the horn about 150 years ago. It is still almost the same and NOBODY comes to me and say it is outdated ! Same with a Steinway grand piano.Maybe some of the music that is played with it is outdated, but not the medium or the instrument.

I consider the Leica (or Hasselblad or the manual Nikon F) the same as Steinway. AN INSTRUMENT. What you do with it and with what materials, is your REPERTOIRE. You don`t want to play the same tune all over again, so you have choices. Panchromatic, Orthocromatic, Infrared, Polaroid positive/negative, Large format, Cross processing and so on. In printing you don`t just shovel a glossy inkjet paper in the machine and have a copy of the image by pushing a button.
You have a choice of different textures, tones, sizes and weights of your printing medium, but also you can go a different way to a print. There is a new development of lith printing developed at the Art school of Helsinki called Polymer photogravure. You make a polymer plate of your image and that plate can be printed on various surfaces with a selection of inks. The resulting image is practically coal and stable infinitely.You can take hundreds of prings from your plate, store it and again take it out and make copies or prints again, economically and in fully lighted room. Then there are the truly ancient printing methods like Albumen, Oil, Palladium and Platinum Processes. At present, they are not in my bag of tricks

My mission on this website is to try to keep the spirit alive that I got more than 40 years ago and provide the B&W image afficionados with film, chemicals & superior Baryta printing materials, that are sometimes hard to get. I have tested and used all listed MACO , KODAK and LegacyPro products, so I can give some advice on their usage. If you still want more specific info ( safety and enviromental info) pls. go to MACO´s own pages www.MACO.de Also I have the items on my pricelist in stock for my own printing clients, as I offer services to other Photog`s as well.
Please go further to my PRODUCTS pages.

These pictures above are by me, More of them can be seen on my Photographers website: www.jukkavatanen.com
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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC REPERTOIRE 1) The new Rollei ATP and 80Sfine grain film

MACO/ROLLEI is now on forefront with new AGFA/ BELGIUM film products for the B&W shooter/artist. The technical pan film of Kodak is discontinued. Rollei has taken up the recipe and developed it further. The basic film is from microfilm technology, but adapted to "fine art" photography with specific developers to fulfill its extra qualities.
You can get more info from the ATP forums in internet.The film is available in 35mm casettes & bulk film 30 metre spools and now also in 120 roll film size. When developed in the special "SPUR" developer, its gradiation is very beautiful and huge, almost grainless prints can be made.
The film is based on AGFA GEVAERT COPEX Microfilm. The SPUR DSX developer is available in 2 different versions:DSX 32 and DSX 64.
When mixed in distilled water and processed along the suggested prodedure, you will have negatives capable of resolution and line, not available in 35mm frame size in digital capture.

maco/Rollei 80S is maybe the sharpest and most versatile B&W film ever, It can be developed successifully in most commercial developers and it handles beautifully. My favourite is Rodinal 1:200 stand for a hour or Acufine 1:4 in distilled water for 4-6 minutes ( You have to test yourself !) As it is made on a clear base, it scans beautifully.

B&W repertoire #2) The new Superpan 200 BW film

This all new professional film for B&W shooters is a "new page" in an old story: a PRO film that is like a 100 asa film in granularity and sharpness with a speed in excess of 400 asa when developed in the Rollei RHS developer. Then, on the other side of "spectrum", with a development in Rollei RLS deep layer developer, the speed is at 100 asa for scans and 50 asa for analog prints in an enlarger. (I prefer a little "beefier" negas for that medium. Yet the sharpness and grain structure surpesses all 50/100 asa films available previously. Quite a newcomer...
The new Superpan 200 is available in 35mm and 120 spools. Ideal development is the 1:100 Rodinal "One hour Stand development"

SPECIAL ITEMS FOR B&W SHOOTER #3 and 4) INFRA RED & ORTHO FILMS

These films have existed as long as there has been photo work done in science. Very few photographers have exploited their pictorial possibilities. Both the IR and Ortho are available in all populr sizes 35mm-120 roll and 4X5" sheet film.As they are slow: 25 asa /50 asa plus require certain precautions in handling,(Infrared WITH filter, less filter the speed is 200/400 asa). If you are looking for a new "Touch" in your pictures, they are definitely worth the try. I stock these always ( for my own usage, mainly)

SPECIAL PRINTING POSSIBILITIES #1 : BARYTA PAPERS

There is not much to be said about the traditional baryta papers with their enormous tone scale, their rich blacks with a three dimensional quality, except that if you still have the wet lab, give them a try.
You will instantly see why the most important black & white work is printed still on wet process, on traditional enlarger or digital Durst Lambda system on wet process in silver halide enlarging paper.

SPECIAL PRINTING POSSIBILITIES # 2) The "POLYMER PROCESS"

Developed mainly by Kari Holopainen at the TAIK- Art School of Helsinki, the Polymer printing process involves negatives printed on Maco lith film, they in turn are made into polymer plates that are printed much like litho art in printing with inks. You can find much info on Google by searching "Polymer printing" or Kari Holopainen"

SPECIAL PRINTING POSSIBILITIES #3) LITH PRINTING METHOD

MACO IS THE PRODUCER OF LITH PAPER AND CHEMICALS TO GO WITH THE MATERIAL. LITH PRINTING IS AN "OFFBEAT WAY OF GENERATING IMAGES", one of the users are Anton Corbjin, a rock photographer now exhibited in Helsinki MACO has a kit and full technical description available.

New chapter is recently written in LITH PRINTING with Chemicals and formulas by Wolfgang Moersch of germany. I will import these by demand for those willing to exploit the interesting printing media.
I will also have courses in Lith Printing to give users a chance to try out the medium.

SPECIAL PRINTING POSSIBILITIES #4)Scanning and Digital Printing

Yes, it is Digital... The way of working achieving more and more popularity is to shoot film ( in large size ) scan it in a good quality scanner at 3200dpi for a large file, preserving the film`s acutance and grain structure. The scanned file gives a possibility to correct faults, have mild editing etc. Yet, when printed on a "baryta like" paper it gives results that are close to prints that come thru the wet process. What it lacks, however is the "three dimensional quality" of the silver baryta paper, that the thick silver emulsion gives. More and more photographers are going the dry process way of multi black B&W digital printing. A top of the line paper is the american MUSEO SILVER RAG paper, that I stock now.

BACK TO THE ROOTS OF PHOTOGRAPHY: PINHOLE CAMERAS

If you REALLY want to do it in the old ways, try pinhole photography!
Like the name says. the lens of the camera is a tiny hole in the lenscap and no glass. This gives a) very long exposure times and b) very large depth of field. c) in large negatives also a very wide angle of view. Perfect for beautifully different nature pictures ! My mentor and pen pal EDO in Japan is a fantastic pinhole photographer. He has several books on the subject and also a website. Check on google "Edo pinhole" I have a pinhole camera kit from MACO, but you can easily convert a 4x5 field camera to a pinhole camera too.

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WHAT CAMERAS DO I USE??

This is a frequently posed question, especially if people that don`t know me, want to have a little "small talk" chat...
Well, I used to have a lot of them, I have gone thru most of them. but now narrow the selection to the ones I really like.
For 35mm B&W I use my LEICA !
I have a M3 and MP-4 with rapidwinders. My lens "arsenal" shifts all the time, now it includes the nikkor 20mm, russian pancake 20mm, 28mm is either the monolta 2,8 or voigtländer :2 , a great lens!
35mm is the Voigtländer F:1,2 or Biogon :2,8
the 50mm normal focal is presently my oldest lens: Canon 50mm :1,2 another great user lens, then the retro oldies: leitz summar ;2 and Elmar 50:3,5 a very lovely "old school" portrait lens
For the leicas, I have the Visoflex mirror box, that lets me work very silently in concerts & recordings. for the Viso I use the long hasselblad lenses: 100mm and 180mm

my old Nikon F set is two identical bodies with about 20 pcs of reloadable Nikon metal casettes,with 20mm-50mm and 105mm Nikkors
For artist portraits & colour work, I use the Nikon F5 autofocus body with 50mm 1,4 and Sigma 24/70 2.8 Zoom
( sometimes with Color negative C-41 films or E-6 films cross processed as grainy color negative).

I have the old work horse HASSELBLAD syetem with 2 bodies, 5 lenses plus the flex body. Then I have built myself an "ART CAMERA" -4x5" hulk that uses a Biogon 75mm and a pinhole lens.
OK; I have the Digital Nikons, of couse, but we don`t talk about Digital here, It is ANALOG, the old silver halide stuff:

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EDO´S PINHOLE MESSAGE:

EDO´n PINHOLE PHOTO MESSAGE ON SUOMEKSI: HILJENNÃ„, TARKKAILE, MIETISKELE. Anna filmin valita, mitä se sinulle haluaa näyttää. Aina ei tule edetä 1/60 osa sydämenlyönnin tahdissa tai vielä nopeammin. Hyvä tapa valottaa on laskea 20 tai enemmänkin sydämenlyöntejä. samalla voi tarkkailla aihetta ja koettaa nähdä vielä tarkemmin, havannoida jo ne detaljit joita filmi sinulle sitten myöhemmin näyttää.

EDO eli edward levinson on minun Zen/Sufi guruni japanissa.

Edo on julkaissut neulanreikäkuvausta käsitteleiviä kirjoja Japanissa,
hänen saitillaan www.edophoto.com on ihastuttavia kuvia tällä tekniikalla toteutettuna. Nämäkin kuvat ovat sieltä-Edon suostumuksella.

Pidän tarvittaessa myös PINHOLE kuvauksen kursseja, kysele!
EDO´S MESSAGE IS TO SLOW DOWN, LET YOUR MIND SEE WHAT YOUR EYES ALREADY REGISTER. With pinholistic photography a short glimpse transforms into a timelapse description of space: trees move,water flows, people on the street give just a sweeping shadow, a mark: I am here-I was here.

In Zen way of life, everything has a meaning, also the unseen. Every creature lives a mark, not good or bad, just a mark to be observed... The spiritual life goes to the core of existence- try to understand- try to see the reality.
Out of this reality, I try to make meaningful images. If a photograph has meaning, has content, it will live and the energy from it radiates back to other people, change their lives. If it just depicts reality, it is illustration.

A Zen way of looking at objects is to understand of what the object is made of, what is it`s message: When you look at a ceramic work, you see and know it is made from clay, clay that once was stone until turned to that soft substance by the natures forces; water and soil. The clay is molded into a piece of art by loving and creative hands, controlled by a mind with energy to have a purpose. The clay is transferred to ceramic by heat and then finished with colors, details and so on. When sitting on a table, the ceramic has a purpose, a life span and finally it is transformed,just put away, shattered or neglected-
This is one way of ZEN, to look at things and ideas as thoughtfully as possible, slowly letting the thoughts go deeper, finally arriving at the core of existence of the objects or ideas.
ZEN MEDITATION to me is to try to dream and experience the dream world, but in a perfectly consicuous state, mind being alert, but calm at the same time.

THIS SECTION WAS UPDATED 06.05.2010

Created on 01/20/2008 06:49 PM by admin
Updated on 06/30/2010 06:16 AM by jukkav