Bill has been on the LFPP radar pretty much since we started the show and Graham Vasey mentioned him as they had met on one of his Iceland organised trips. Andrew had heard Mat Marrash talk about Bill years ago on the FPP when he interviewed Bill at his “PhotoStock” annual gathering in Michigan. Well it’s taken us to show 22 but we are sure glad we finally managed to get him on, hope you enjoy the chat. Things we chatted about on the show Andrew bought an old lens on ebay – he can't pronounce the name but the lens seems to have an interesting back story https://galerie-photo.com/berthiot-anastigmats-en.html Once attached to a lens board Andrew wants to use the lens to shoot Jason Lane’s dry plates that have now landed in the UK and are available from Analogue Wonderland https://analoguewonderland.co.uk/products/j-lane-dry-plates-4x5-plate-film-iso-2 Specifically the ISO 2 plates which he thinks will be perfect for making salt prints On the subject of salt prints Andrew and Bill both recommended books https://www.amazon.co.uk/Salt-Print-Manual-Ellie-Young/dp/144528328X and http://www.alternativephotography.com/salted-paper-printing-a-step-by-step-manual-highlighting-contemporary-artists/ The latter is by Christine Anderson who Bill speaks very highly of and has published a number of books on alternative processes. Bill spoke about creating digital negatives and indeed is collaborating with the aforementioned Christine Anderson on a book all about making them. Andrew referenced James Guerin who was the guest on show 81 of The Lensless Podcast and James uses a software tool called ChartThrob that easily makes printer print profiles for your digital negatives. https://anchor.fm/thelenslesspodcast/episodes/Show-81-James-Guerin-returns-ea4pmm http://www.botzilla.com/gearhead/2006/10/24/ChartThrob-A-Tool-for-Printing-Digital-Negatives.html Bill mentioned a number of photographers who attend his PhotoStock gathering check out his website for 2020 http://www.photostockfest.com/ Save The Date! We are in the very early stages of "organising" our own low key version of Photostock. The work in progress plan is to do something over the second May Bank Holiday weekend 30th/31st May in a field at The Forest of Dean, Gloucester, UK Shout outs to Matt Marrash all round good guy http://matmarrash.com/ Thanks to Jeremey North, Dan Tree and Greg Obst who have donated to the show since we had Max from Intrepid on And…… If you live anywhere near Stoke On Trent then why not get in touch with Simon and coma along to the 6 Towns Darkroom on a Tuesday evening. You know how to find him! LFPP links - https://largeformatphotographypodcast.podbean.com/ ko-fi.com/largeformatphotographypodcast You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2296599290564807/ Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew – https://twitter.com/warboyssnapper Or from Simon – https://twitter.com/simonfor Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast [email protected] Podcast Hosts Social Media presence Simon Forster www.classiclensespodcast.com www.simonforsterphotographic.co.uk https://stores.ebay.co.uk/itsfozzyphotography https://www.flickr.com/photos/125323761@N07/ https://www.facebook.com/SimonForsterPhotographic/ https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/ https://twitter.com/SimonFor Andrew Bartram https://anchor.fm/thelenslesspodcast https://andrewbartram.wordpress.com https://www.instagram.com/warboyssnapper https://www.imstagram.com/warboyssnapper_pinholes https://www.flickr.com/photos/warboyssnapper/ https://twitter.com/warboyssnapper

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