Timelapse in Montmartre

Rue Au Lapin:

Photographed with an 8x10 following an evening rain, I am attaching a straight platinum print, and one where I made a contact positive with ortho film and used cyanotype to fill in all highlights, and then a full coating of black gum bichromate to lower the intensity of the blue. All three versions are here....platinum, platinum with cyanotype and platinum with cyanotype and gum bichromate.

The single streak starting at the top center of the image is a motorcyclist I was talking with by cell phone, and just as I started the timelapse, asked him to race down the hill with his front light on.

The Louvre in Photopolymer

Three years ago I attempted to photograph at the Louvre with my 8x10 at night. Unfortunately for me, the security police at the courtyard in front of the pyramid informed me tripods were not allowed. So, no images taken. A year later, staying in the area around the Grand Palais, I pulled my trolly carrying the 8x10 and handcarried my Ries tripod the 1/2 mile back to the Louvre and Tulieries complex. Luckily, there were no police on this night, and I had two hours at night to shoot at will. I am posting two images printed with engraved photopolymer plates on Rives BFK paper. Persistance pays off.

A photopolymer gravure from a color digital image

As a photographer shooting film and processing using platinum metal salts and photogravure, it is only in this last six months that I traveled abroad with my 8x10 and a small canon G10 digital. I did capture one image of a gargoyle 200 steps up Notre Dame de Paris (impossible to do with my 8/10). I then used PS to transform the color digital image to black and white using color channels, printed a transparency on pictorico film, made a photopolymer plate, and printed it in gravure using carbon black printers ink. Enclosed is the positive image produced.

Upon returning from Istanbul for a public health congress, a copy of the May Royal Photographic Society Journal was on my desk. I had met the publisher of the Journal in Arles, France at the Recontres d'Arles during portfolio reviews. The cover was my first stage 'Day for Night' photopolymer gravure. The article and cover can be seen at:

http://www.garyauerbach.com/photo/articles/index_2.php

MMT MMTO

Working Digital with Platinum

I have been taking a digital photography class at Pima College. In one of the first projects I did was scan an 11x14 platinum print of a telescope I had photographed in 1997 and then again in 2003, and used the ability to de-saturate color from a portion of the building. It changed the look, and impact.

Its January 19th, and Barack Obama will be inaugurated tomorrow as the 44th president of the

United States. The days preceding have been filled with hundreds of thousand persons between the Lincoln Monument and the Capital.

In 1999 I photographed a number of memorial areas around Washington DC. I had use of my tripods inside these monolith structures, whereas after 2001, this access ceased for large format photographers like me.

This is a 5 second exposure of Lincolns statue. School children were congregated in front of me.

I also photographed inside the Jefferson Memorial, with my friend Medhat Alattar reading from the opposite wall. Also 5 second exposure.

Restoration materials are visible in tops of columns. All was being restored for the 2000 year celebration.