So far, I have 15 people who have expressed an interest in this idea, and a few offers to pay my postage. Kind offers, but not necessary.
Shel mentioned that the portfolio could be made available to anyone interested. I am amenable to the idea, but I think we will need to make multiple portfolios in order to allow a reasonable time frame. Also, we now have interested parties in North America, Britain, and Australia. So, I am thinking that we should probably create 5 or more portfolios, to allow as many people to look at them in as short a time as possible. I think this is going to be a really fun project, but I forsee a few issues that need to be gotten out of the way. The biggie is shipping costs. Be aware, if you get involved in this, you will be responsible for the cost of mailing a portfolio to someone else. If the luck of the draw is that you get to ship from North America to Ulan Bator, then that is what you must do, and it must be sent by a quick carrier such as air mail. I don't want to hear anyone whinging about the fact that they got stuck paying air postage to another continent. If this is likely to get stuck in your craw, get out of the program, or don't get into it. With this in mind, I open this project up to all interested PDML members. If you want to view a portfolio, send me a private email with your mailing address, specifying that you are not participating in the printing side. If you want to participate as a PDML portfolio printer, send me a private email indicating this. If you are already on my list, and don't like this change to the concept, send me an email telling me that you want to opt out. The idea of this is to see how we print a negative, not how your favourite commercial lab prints it onto greasy kid stuff. While it is not policable, lets do the printing ourselves, in our own darkrooms. Remember, this is as much about the esthetics of the choice of paper and image tone as it is about keeping shadow detail and not blowing out the highlights. I will be accepting participants until the 14th of May, for both printing and non printing participants. After that, too bad, so sad. Have a geat weekend. Bill - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
