Use what ever works, tools, cardboard, hands, etc. Unless the obvious is part of the print, work subtly, don’t let the viewer see your dodges and burns. When using dodgers on a wire, and bend the wire so it goes up the light path before out of the print. This will help diffuse the light the runs along the path of the wire, helping to make it more invisible. Try to follow natural lines in the print when dodging or burning. Moving the dodger or burn item up and down the light path will help to diffuse and...
The following bleaches work well for different things and are pretty useful. The receipies are all for “stock” solutions, not working solutions. See the section on bleaching for making working dilutions. Potassium Ferrocyanide (Stock) # Keeps indefinitely in dark brown bottle. 10 g Potassium Ferrocyanide 100 ml water Thiocarbamide ‘dry’ Reducer (Stock) # Solution A Solution B 2.3g Iodine 50ml Mthyl alcohol ...
Solution A Solution B 3000 mL Water (hot 100°F+) 32 g Metol 92 g Sodium Sulphite 94 g Sodium Carbonate, Anhydrous Mix above ingredients one at a time until dissolved. Bring to 4000 mL with additional Water Allow to cool to room temperature before using. 3000 mL Water (hot 100°F+) 32 g Hydroquinone 92 gSodium Sulphite ...
We just moved into our new building here on campus (we moved from 42 (good) to 17 (not so good)). I’ve spent most of the day unpacking so far, and haven’t gotten much else done yet. Though I’m back to a window office. I’m right at the edge here on getting a window office. I’ve been here 5.5 years, and 5 seems to be about the magic number for this tema. The question now becomes how long will I get to keep it until someone more senior comes along. In any event, this new building is interesting. The...
One of the people I report to this week asked me what the difference between a Product Manager and a GREAT Product Manager. It turns out the difference is in how you answer a question. Instead of saying how difficult something is going to be to do, you just say, “consider it done!” It is kind of the culture of Microsoft, don’t say no, ask how high. In order to do a great job here, you have to realize that you’re going to be asked to do the difficult. Notice I didn’t say you’ll be asked to do the...
I usually try to post in my blog at least once a week, but I admit, I’ve been a little lacking the last few weeks. I’m now on day 5 as a Product Manager, and not surprisingly, I still don’t know what the heck I’m doing! 😃 That’s fine though, I didn’t really expect to come on and be 100% productive the first week either. And I don’t think Brian did either, at lease lets hope he didn’t 😉 There are plenty of things that I’m working on and trying to figure out. For example, the IE Developer Center has...