[pure-silver] Re: Polarized Screens (was duplicate info)

Adrienne, My server is down and my mail is slow getting through today.  It
looks like Richard pretty much hit the nail on the head.  I use a separate
set of stands and clip the sheets to the stands with wooden cloths pins.
Polarized filters for your lights can come as just rolls or already mounted.
I find that the type already mounted worked better and saved me the time of
coming up with a sturdy material to hold them that was easy enough to cut.
While I now have proper cutting tools for many material, when I was less
well off, a utility knife was about it. 

They are used with a polarizing filter on the camera as well, they just
don't make magic happen. So you have similar control over shining
leaves/water outdoors, you now have over gold foil or other highly
reflective surfaces.  And now with PS, you have other controls but that is
getting for from this group.  You could still do a multiple exposure with
them, stay with in the Purist camp and old world.  The steadiness of your
camera becomes more of an issue with hot lights, but as Richard also
suggested, you can use them with strobes too.  One pop with full, and
another one with a slight turn. More playing with light! Fun fun : ) 

If you want a tough job, try coping an old tin type or silver gelatin print
has succumbed to bad fixing.  Rather than 45 degree or even 30, I had to
shine it at 5 or less; casting enough light to sow the image but the dust!
Wow, clean clean clean..    

Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street
Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
http://e.neilsen.home.att.net
http://ericneilsenphotography.com
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrienne Moumin
> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 2:19 PM
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Polarized Screens (was duplicate info)
> 
> Eric, can you please provide more info as to exactly what these "polarized
> screens" are?  Also, how do you keep them from melting?  I have can-type
> reflectors which are pretty big but the HOT bulbs (500W) stick out beyond
> them.  Do I just need to get even bigger reflectors?
> 
> Sorry, all, for taking this so far afield of the "pure silver" list topic,
> but sometimes one must jump on an opportunity when it arises.  Off-list, I
> would've learned something; posted, everyone else does, too.
> 
> -Adrienne Moumin
> 
> 
> 
> ***************************************
> And please remember: ART HAS NO RULES.
> 
> >>
> >From: "Eric Neilsen Photography" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [pure-silver] Re: duplicate info
> >Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:04:01 -0500
> 
> <<<---SNIPPITY-DOO-DAH--->>>
> 
> >I find that the polarized lighting works great with colored art work but
> I
> >would only recommend that lighting style for B&W copy work as a last
> resort
> >or at the very least, a distant alternative.  The polarized screens when
> >last I bought some, where close to $50 a piece for 16" squares.  These
> >worked great for the many  many paintings that I photographed while
> making
> >a
> >living in Taos, NM for the art crowd. And as long as you don't melt them,
> >they will give you years of controlled lighting. I used two 500 watt
> lights
> >and when needed, a diffusion material to soften the light and the hide
> >texture in the surface of the original.
> >
> 
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