Hi
Just want to let everyone now that this is my first time here and have enjoyed reading many of the posts here.
My cameras of choice are:
Pentax MX with a 50mm Pentax lens
Pentax Z-70 with a 72mm Tamron 28-200 lens
Pentax MZ-5 with a 52mm Pentax 28-80 lens
Most of my work is done in black and white using a Red Filter A8
Films of choice are:
KODAK T-MAX 400 Professional
ILFORD FP4+ 125
ILFORD HP5+ 400
I am also into Bromoils with a good friend of mine.
My wesite is http://ronaldbubbly.100free.com I have not put any of my Bromoils there yet. But you can see the website I put together for Andre Devlaeminck.
His website is all about Bromoils. http://andre_devlaemininck.tripod.com

Have a look and tell me what you think.

Later
Sir William

Let me be the first to welcome you to the wonderful world of APUG. You have some interesting work on your site, hope to see some posted here soon.

Welcome from Kent Island - land of pleasanr living on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland (AKA, the swamp).

Welcome from a quite new member from Finland too :)! Also visited your website, nice work there.

Let me be the first to welcome you to the wonderful world of APUG. You have some interesting work on your site, hope to see some posted here soon.
Thanks alot hope to be as many times as I find the time.

Later
Sir William

Welcome from Kent Island - land of pleasanr living on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland (AKA, the swamp).

Thanks for the note. I was born in New Jersey many years age.


Later
Sir William

Welcome from a quite new member from Finland too :)! Also visited your website, nice work there.

Hi

Thanks for the the look at my website. Spent some time on yours too. Very nice work.

till later
Sir William

Welcome!
Your photos are beautiful! I think you will like the forum & I look forward to your input!
Jeanette

Welcome!
Your photos are beautiful! I think you will like the forum & I look forward to your input!
Jeanette

Thanks BWGirl

I have been reading all the messages here and find this forum great. I am working very hard on Bromoils right now. I will try to scan some of my work and put it here and on my website. If you have the time take a look at my friend "RADAN" he is a master at Bromoils.
Http://andre_devlaeminck.tripod.com

Till later
Sir William

Ok, Sir William....
What the heck is "Bromoil"? :D
Jeanette

Hi BWGirl

Here is the best way to understand what Bromoil is.

http://alt-photo.com/alt-photo/bromoil/HISTORY/what%20is%20bromoil.html

Later
Sir William

I still don't know what it is - aside from "an offshoot of the oil process" (and I don't know what that is either!). I did look at your friend's website - very nicely designed.

OK what you do is take a negative and make a Print from it size 9 by 12. After it has dried and you like the print. The next day you bleach the print so nothing is there.
Let it dry and then on the next day you put it in warm water for 10 mins. Remove it and take off the extra water. Now put the bleached print down on a table and take a Oil brush with the color you want to work with and hit the print over and over again till you start see your photo come back. The oil color will only say where the bleached print was before not on the paper its self. It takes about 4 hours of work to get the look you want. You must start out with only a little oil color on you brush. Slowly adding more color as you go along. If you want to lighten up areas you take a dry bursh and hit those areas. There are many website on the subject of Bromoils.
Here are just some of them.
http://www.bromoil.com/
http://www.saelon.com/bromoils/bromoils.html
http://photography.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_bromoil.htm
http://alt-photo.com/alt-photo/bromoil/reading%20room.html
It is not for everyone. It thaks a lot of time to make one Bromoil.

Later
Sir William