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ART 53, day 14

2016/05/05 — Leave a comment

This Is Fifty-Three, day 14

More scanning (and, occasionally, re-scanning) yesterday. I made it through all the SX-70 and 600 photos—and much faster than I had expected; with the number of re-scans needed to get rid of Newton’s rings, I thought it might take several days. Instead, I kept going until I had finished the lot.

Now I just have about a dozen type 100 prints, which is much simpler, since I only have to be concerned with the usual dust removal—no re-scanning!

And there was much rejoicing…

(5 May 2016)

 

 

ART 53, day 13

2016/05/03 — Leave a comment

Today, I scanned. I have accumulated just over 30 Polaroids since January. Usually I scan them the same day, but I haven’t been doing that.

This is probably going to take me a while—particularly if I am to keep plugging away at the book.

Why will it take me a while? Well, it all comes down to the vagaries of scanning film, with Polaroids adding their own peculiar brand of fun to the mix. Continue reading

ART 53, day 12

2016/05/02 — 1 Comment

(I changed the title of this series of posts—finally!—because Working on the new book sounds really lame. Anyway…)

Today, I began raiding a past project for some layout ideas. From July 2009 through June 2010, I worked on creating one new layout for each day. For the most part, I succeeded (though there were a few days I had to play catch-up). Not all of the layouts were great, but I gave myself a new set of constraints each month to force myself to try a bunch of different stuff. Continue reading