I really do not know where the time goes these days. I thought I was busy whilst at university but since then I seem to be constantly juggling balls and spinning plates.
The show still goes on at the Museum of East Anglian Life. Pop in and check out the christmas trees, yes plural, in the galleries. They seem to fit in well.
One could say that I have been having windows problems of late. many months ago we engaged a busy sash window restorer and then bided our time for a slot in his schedule. The autumn came and I put it on the back burner but then all of a sudden he was here and i found myself with new and exposed wood that needed painting before the weather set in. As it happens, the only decengt weather we have had for large format photography has coincided with fitting or painting days. Whilst we are relatively dry compared to the saturated North West, we have had some very wet and windy weather to contend with. This is good in many ways as it has certainly tested the draught-proofing fitted to the windows. I expect lower heating bills this winter. That is a job that was on the list back in 1987 when we moved in so a nice big tick on that task.
I have been firing up an idle drum scanner of late with some amazing results. The acid test is when another photographer decides they cannot look at what they thought was a good image when they see the same image post drum scanning next to it. Why are these machines becoming so scarce? I for one am glad that i have experienced the degree of quality that one can gain from a good negative that has been drum scanned. Nothing in my digital archive compares to that of analogue-digital drum scanned negatives.
After much thought I’ve bought standalone versions of Lightroom 6 so I’ll have to plan my conversion carefully. As I already have CS5.5 and CS6 licences I could not bring myself to buy the rent a licence version. I must say I am am not that impressed by Adobe restricting new features just to their CC version though but I was aware of that before I bit the bullet.
Anyway, two examples of the same image, different scanner.
Drum scanned on a Chromagraph S3400
Fluid mount flat bed scanned on an Epson V750