Bio

[Kayo Matsushita <kayo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

- Name:                 Kayo Matsushita

- Profession/Study:     M.A. in Media Studies, New School for Social Research

- Country:              Living in the U.S., originally from Japan

- Personal history of photography

        I took my first photography class a few years ago when I was studying
        film/video production. Having had never used a SLR, I didn't know
f-stop
        from shutter speed back then. After learning the basics of photography,
        I managed to get through cinematography courses :-)

        Since I returned to school last year, I got hooked into photography
        again, having real fun creating images after two years of working
on the
        production side of film/still production.

    - preferred subjects:

        I've been shooting lots of cityscapes here in Manhattan.

    - materials (film, filters, paper, chemistry):

        Mostly B/W. My current films of choice are Ilford Delta 100 and HP5
        Plus developed with Edwal FG-7. As for paper, Kodak Polimax Fine
Art (F
        surface), Ilford Multigrad FB....I recently tried Agfa Portiga, or
warm
        tone paper for that sense, for the first time. When I run out of the
        current stock, I'm going to try Zone VI's Brilliant (cold-tone) for my
        regular (non infrared) B/W cityscape photos.

        I shot my first roll of infrared film only a week or so ago with a
        disasterous result (as Willem knows from another list). I'm not 100%
        sure yet, but it seems the problem was caused by using ascetic acid as
        stop bath. I developed my second roll just yesterday, this time using
        indicator stop bath, and the resulting images came out no problem at
        all. I was going to do a test with one roll of film with different
        developer/stop bath combination, but since I'm leaving the country
        in a couple of days, I guess I'm going to wait for Konica's
analysis of
        this problem negs for finding out the cause...

    - format (35mm/medium format/large format):

        35mm. I'll be trying 4x5 this fall at school - can't wait!

- How did you find out about this list:

        From the announcement on other lists.


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