Have had models order clothing, shoes and accessories along with items they saw and wanted. No complaints other than sometimes it took a while to receive the items. Price was as stated, vary low prices.

Yes, Liz Ashly will be in the area of San Antonio and Austin the weekend of May 3rd to the 5th. My good friend Fred Herzog will be scheduling a shoot here at Mission Road Studios and I will be joining him to work with Liz. We plan to take advantage of the mild weather and shoot in the garden as well as some indoor studio work.

If you crave to work with Liz during her visit either one on one or with a small group of us, send me a PM and I will set it up. Or find Liz Ashley on many locations of the internet, she is vary visible. You can also Google her images and videos, there are a lot of them on the internet. Liz is based out of Houston Texas.

I never charge any studio use fees when a model of Liz stature visits with her great bubbly personality!

Image is of Liz at George Stumberg's Workshop sessions several years ago (I co-hosted the workshop with George). It was such a blast!

Liz at George Stumberg's Workshop sessions several years ago (I co hosted the workshop with George).

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That last line I find bizarre, B&W filters may be used for may applications even in digital photography, even if most people never encounter their need.

The Wratten 2B is a UV filter that can and should be applied for most photography.

A Wratten 2E and 2EF filter used for managing UV will also effect changes to the color of many flowers rendering them with unique effects not normally found in 'normal' photography. The Yellow Wratten 8 is still used for aero photography, effecting suppression of blues in high altitude imaging, the difference in the Wratten 9, also used as a strong yellow filter similar to the Aero #2 and #3 are such filters.

Here is a rather odd notation, the use of a color correcting filter to alter color balance can be used to good effect with digital but some people still use 8X10 view cameras. Combined with a basic CC filter set/pack for the paper's base, a Wratten 2B and correcting from B color balance to day light, reversal papers can be shot in the film holder and then processed as a positive color image. There was a product made by AGFA called Agfa Speed, a positive paper product that could be used like this in large format sheet film cameras. The beauty of this product was that with a simple processing drum rolled on a countertop with its activator (Drano) you got a perfect positive image in three minutes that only needed to be washed for a few minutes in plain water, all at room temperature.

The point to this is that there are many 'outside the box' ways of making images if you want to take the adventure.

I'm still waiting to see someone do pinspeck* photography with a digital camera system.

* Pinspeck imaging was first spoken about In Scientific American in about 1978 in the section of The Amateur Scientist. Quite a unique imaging system and all from homemade items, much like it's opposite the pinhole camera.

The internet has become such a screwed up mess of moronic information these days Sourses not tell us that a polarizer is an actuator and not an atuators. For years you could not locate a polarizer nor ND in the FILTER section of the Kodak order catalogue. These guys were salesmen like care or boat salesman. So one had to tell them to look under atuators, Kodak evn put a big red signal at the bottom of the catalogue to direct the sales staff to this. So keep calling atuators filters, that says that your a salesman and not a photographer.

Vary nice generic and generalized information.

If you need or want information on the exact nature of any Wratten filter, then consult the Wratten section of the Handbook of Physics and Chemistry. There you will find any and all details of stability, life and spectral range (including lab made filters, these are the non-gelatin materials, made with liquid and glass containers,) such as polarizers and neutral density, called atuators*.

To bring a fine point to it, the only designated 'blank' filter is the basic gelatine filter marked as the 01 Wratten that is just the gel base itself and there is a density, spectral values and optical displacements and stability/life of the unit. That is technical support that is of value, the rest is just hear say.

*The atuators are designed to pass almost all visible light and will stop 'equally' the specific volume of visible light. This is why a polarizer or ND will remove the visible spectrum but will pass much of the IR, so with a digital camera set up for IR work can still be used to 'mix' visible and IR areas for creative control in general photographic work.

The old IR film that is still made, falls into this category. Without ND or a polarizer, the IR is too low in sensitivity, but with ND and polarizers, one can make the film mostly or totally IR responsive. Mixing the two (IR and Visible spectrums delivers powerful visual results to the photographer) creates a powerful tool for IR work that goes beyound the simple range of just IR imaging.

Right on. And the hole shooters can have the 'strength' of the rotating bit selected away from 'drill' position so the bit will 'break away', so as to not seize the work and snap my wrist.

Not even a drill, it is called 'a hole shooter'.

Dude! I didn't know the Mona Lisa could talk, let a loan Rap!

All nice standard information that is froth with errors. The opposite of Red is Cyan (look at the color balance window in any Photoshop program. Most everyone confuses Cyan with Blue, Blue is half of Cyan, but Blue is actual Cyan minus the green.

In landscape work, the 'atmosphere' is vary controlled by a green filter, while a yellow filter reduces or removed the atmospheric haze that gives us the sense of density and shows as haze and so moisture in the air.

Many, many B&W analogue (film) photographers get lost in the common dogma of 'known' filters. There is category of filters for B&W work referred to as 'minus filters' these are the Wratten 44a, 32, and 12.

The 12 is the more extreme of the Wratten 15 (Kodak designated it long ago as the "G" filter and that is often how it is still referenced to as, this day; known the world around as Blue Blocker Sunglasses and used in Ski Goggles. Ansel Adams used the Wratten 15 almost exclusively for land scape work (not the Wratten 25- Red filter).

These filters are called Minus Filters because the block one area of the visible spectrum, while passing the other two areas of light (color).

The Wratten 32 looks like the 'fish eggs' sports man use to do fishing and the 44a is a filter that is deep dark, almost neutral color, that suppresses red.

Hats off to you Mr. Harry.

I acknowledge that I'm the odd duck here.

I got 'interested' in women/girls in the mid 60's. That was just about the time my parents joined Ansel Adams and the new Friends of Photography. I was busy helping hang exabitions of the work of Edward Weston and Wynn Bulock (his figure images of Barbera, his daughter). Then there was Imogene Cunningham telling this kid (me) how it is fine to feel attracted to women and the nudity, meanwhile my mother looking on approvingly!

Art books and photo publications all around and Joe (my Father) taught me photography with his Leicas and set up a small darkroom in the extra bathroom with the Focomat 1c enlarger. Bulk loaded film and doing my own developing and printing on 3 1/5 by 5 B&W prints.

Clfornia beaches, tones of girls in bathing suits (and some out of them). It was the 60's and also Marine Biology at the Hopkins Marine Station with all types of undergraduate and graduate women doing research and me and my buddy Jeff Normal do great photos of their plants and critters, full use of the institute's darkroom. When I had questions I would call Ansel or Wynn or Imogene and ask such basic questions. Later show them the B&W 8X10 prints or Kodachromes. Imogene loved the Kodachromes of all the gorgeous colorful Opisthobranch (sea slugs, see image).

Truly High Times!

Opisthobranch, specifically a nudibranch (Latin for naked, or exposed gill).

This image of Bettie was posted to an account on Deviant Art by a member who had purchased the print on e-bay. He then had (paid) Bettie sigh the print and a notary as witness to her signature at the time of signature.

Just wanted to share and say that Bettie Page was finally given her due (celebrity status) as one of the 20th Centuries iconic persons.

It is also one of the finer quality images to emerge from her modeling sessions. Love the smile and the posing and all of the naughty attire, truly she holds the title of Queen of Pin Up Art.

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There was an excellent biography of her, well written and researched. She had a huge influence of D. Eishenhower, more than many historians ever acknowledge. Be mindful that this image was requested so much by the troops during the war that the Stars and Stripes decided to make it the center fold for that Army paper. Sexy women don't need to be out of their clothes (then again!).

Yes, yes, but it was her cup of tea. So who was drinking from the cup?

Speaking of great American women who were iconic, liberated and far beyond their time, Margret Bourk-White. From what I have read about Bourk-White she had more impact on the moral and winning of the war by American men during the war in Europe. Hats off to Bourk-White!

Margret Bourk-White after her return from a 'milk run' bombing raid over Nazi Germany, credited with two ME 109 kills after the B-17 lost its waist gunners.

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Historically relevant. The film that was to be a presentation of the "Life of Bettie Page" was truly an idiots delight for the main stream notion of the life of an important individual of our cultural past. In the film there is a one on one with a male figure, not properly identified, nor his importance examined. That of course was the infamous John Willie, creator of the 'Sweet Gwendoline' persona as a cartoon and his publication Bizarre.

It is imposable to sort out what people like Bettie and her relationship to the Klaw brother and sister who operated a mail order as supplier of erotic work and how this has relevance to the whole spirit of the time that drove artists like Eric Straton and the creation of the Wounder Woman phenomenon. It is the same contuatation of the same mindless and childish tom foolery that we see in today's comic on film that are modern day famous funnies none sense.

Likeing and disliking in the arts is a similar form of censorship. But thank goodness we have that First Amendment Right to protect free speech, like the 'naughty' forum here at the Hog.

Thanks for at least a comment to the post. I did know Bettie Page, yet by getting to know people who did know her and of her I can better understand what she did to alter the world that I live in.

Thanks Bettie!