Brad and I are back home after a whirlwind couple of weeks trolling around upstate New York. We’ve posted most of our work on the LBM Dispatch tumblr. If you want to review the whole trip in sequence, start with the first post here.
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Thanks,
Alec
alec-
#1 as an educator was wondering if you would share some technical details about how you are shooting/posting this from the road? – my curious documentary students want to know about the methodology- wonderful b/w quality.
#2 do you have any advice about newsprint- archival quality in any way? we are subscribing to your newprint publications and will make one ourselves and wanted to know how you approach the idea of the newsprint as a publication.
documentarily yours-slp
Hi Tyler,
I use a digital camera. When I’m not out shooting, I’m processing the files (either in my hotel room or while our assistant is driving). This processing involves a few stages, first the conversion to b/w, then a few rounds of editing, then the photoshop work on the final file. Then I upload the image as a draft to Tumblr. From this draft, Brad works on his text.
The newsprint is not archival. To me, that is part of the beauty of newsprint. I like looking at an old paper and feeling the passage of time.
Thanks,
Alec