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| Transprency and Print |
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| Two Transparencies |
The term "pushing the envelope" originally comes from the field of aviation. It is a reference to the flyable portion of the atmosphere that envelopes the earth. Pilots would push the envelope when they were testing the speed or elevation limits of new aircraft. The term entered the mainstream by way of Tom Wolfe's novel The Right Stuff.
For about 3 years I have been using the technique that I call (with a smile) “Scanner negative sandwiches without mayonnaise”. I put one negative, be it colour or b+w, or a slide, on top of each other and scan them together with my Epson Perfection V700 Photo scanner. The results are especially good if the negatives, etc are from the same photo session.
Scanner Negative Sandwiches Without Mayonnaise
I have been made aware that I can do this with Photoshop Layers. I opt for the more mechanical one. But then, what do I do with digital photographs if I cannot scan them and I will not do layers?
In the middle of the night, one night ago, I had a dream that started with “The Theremin Man”. The Theremin Man is Stephen Hamm the former bass player of the notorious punk band Slow. On the 10th of December of 2022 I was contacted by Hamm who wanted me to take some photographs of him to help promote him. He never did use my photographs in which I used my digital Fuji X-E3 and lit him with my ProPhoto ring flash.
Zemblanity, Serendipity & a Slow Christmas
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| L to R - Christian Thorvaldson, Steven Hamm, Ziggy Sigmund, Terry Russell & Thomas Anselmi |
In the dream I came up with the idea of making two inkjet transparencies (slides) of two of the photographs and scanning them together with one flipped. The I used another technique of printing one of them and scanning it with the transparency.
I am happy with the results happy to keep on innovating using the technology of the 20th century (my scanner and 20-year-old Photoshop 8 ) with the advances of this century, my Fuji X-E3 and the availability of that wonderful inkjet paper and transparency printed on my very good Epson P700 printer.
