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David A. Goldfarb
02-03-2011, 09:30 PM
I don't think I ever introduced myself formally on hybridphoto.com, so now's as good a time as any. I suppose most people will know me as one of the moderators on APUG.org or from my posts on the large format forum or other forums.

I've done some hybrid work, mostly along the lines of using digital negatives to deal with "difficult" analogue negatives that would be hard to print otherwise, due to physical damage or exposure errors. I've also used LightJet and Chromira output from scanned color negs and transparencies, which is hybrid, but I don't think of that as being hybrid in a particularly interesting way.

I shoot digital mostly for work, where we might be using images of artists, writers, and performers or from cultural events for our website, brochures, posters, print advertising, media, or internal reports, and we occasionally make video trailers using DSLR video (http://vimeo.com/16516593). The turnaround time needed is usually too quick to shoot film, given the other responsibilities of my job, but I'm starting to incorporate some film photography into work as well, because I like the way it looks or because I want to use something like the Noblex.

I also shoot some stock (http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3BBE5DDE-44FA-436F-83F0-BE4700436E3F/1/David%20Goldfarb.html) with digital.

Kirk Gittings
02-03-2011, 09:45 PM
Me too.....

Some may know me from the Large Format forum where I am a moderator. I shoot architecture professionally (since 1978) and have been fully digital for a few years now. My personal work is still all 4x5 b&w film, printed digitally and traditionally.

jd callow
02-03-2011, 10:16 PM
David, Kirk it is really nice to have the two of you here.

jd callow
02-03-2011, 10:24 PM
I was going to try and split this thread to give you both your own intro, but it looks like you two get to share.

df cardwell
02-03-2011, 10:24 PM
Hi guys. We're out !

Tony Egan
02-04-2011, 04:52 AM
I pretty much shoot all colour images and travel/family happy snaps with a digital camera. Nikon d90. Also have a Canon 9500 printer and Epson 4990 scanner. I also occasionally make digital negatives for contact printing on silver gelatin paper. Enjoy scanning and printing old family kodachromes taken by my father and increasingly scanning Kodacolor gold negatives of my own family given my 30th wedding anniversary is next Monday. Made a photobook for my wife to celebrate the occasion with images from our first date to wedding day. A lot of fun.

The majority of my time and energy is still devoted to B&W film photography but I'm not one of those "death to digital" types. I've been using PS for almost 10 years and recently bought a 100% authentic, fully licensed, retail priced, registered version of CS5. My conscience is at rest!

wfe
02-04-2011, 12:32 PM
I'm shooting both digital and film and also hybrid process printing using digital negatives for lith prints. Lith printing from negatives as well. For me it's all about the image and I enjoy working with a variety of processes.

David A. Goldfarb
02-05-2011, 11:38 AM
This is the kind of stuff I do for work. I took the photo at one of our events in New York, and we had another event in Ohio with the same writer, so we used the photo for an 11x17" poster designed by our graphic designer. She faded the right side of the image to white, so the text would show up more clearly.

jd callow
02-05-2011, 01:38 PM
Nice shot David.