No surprise to me, I always wanted hybrid topics here, they are some of the most interesting for me personally and where my learning curve has been for about 7 years, I suspect many will slowly gravitate to these areas when they start making hand crafted prints and decide that silver is only one of them.
The writing is on the wall, film , enlarger, print is dead, dead , dead, only to be seen in very few facilities that print for others.... Pt Pd, Gum, Carbon Wet Plate, on the other hand is really kicking ass in the market place and on gallery walls..... This site has probably the best resource for wet printing ANYWHERE and is a monster aid in those wanting to do alternative printing but are afraid, allergic , cannot afford darkrooms... sunlight , simple UV light, simple contact frames and one can do this work in any space.... What is NEEDED is a negative and in 2018 that would be a digital negative that thousands of workers are making now... APUG could have ignored this and kept it traditional film only, but I am glad that Sean started Photrio to accomodate those of us who do like hybrid methods. We lost most of the best workers here the last 8 years to FB Groups that are extremely active and inclusive. My hope is that this site stays inclusive to other methods and grows and we are able to mine the resources that are stored in the history here and some of the better workers come back and participate.
Yes I agree with Eric , this kind of response is exactly how this site is losing its way... I am really surprised with these kinds of comments coming from some of the long time members here.
That's what the Clint Eastwood character felt in Gran Torino when he yelled at the kids to "Get off my lawn." By the end of the movie, even he had come around. Maybe it will happen around here eventually. In the meantime, just check only the Analog box, and you can continue playing in your own sandbox.
sorry, couldn't resist; meant no harm or hostility.
Analog is a niche in photography, but is anything but a niche here. The overwhelming number of threads are analog. Each day there are 60-80 threads with new posts, and only a couple are hybrid or digital. I shoot film, have my own darkroom and regularly print gelatin silver. For the past few years, I have ventured into historical processes. In doing so, my tools have expanded to include digital capture and digital negatives, but they are not important in and of themselves. What is important to me is the final image and the craft involved in making it.
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