Photography, Coffee Developers, and Homemade Cameras
i’ve been coating thing with rockland emulsion off and on since i was told about it in 1986. i had never made the investment in a tube of ag+. i’ve
Continue reading…new paper negatives from rockland AG+ emulsion
over the last 10 years i have grabbed the caffenol c bull by the horns and wrestled it to the ground. soon after i was given the “teaspoon” recipe i
I’ve been on the lookout for a back for a camera i bartered for years ago. the camera is a century 8 grande portrait outfit (photograph courtesy of historic
as you might have read, if you have found this blog / journal i don’t typically use fresh film, chemistry or paper. i am fond ofthe expired variety. for the past
Continue reading…quick and dirty processing for expired or ” no idea what kind of film it is ” film
back in the olde days a magic bullet was made by melting down religious icons. the silver was used to kill werewolves. in photographic terms, a magic bullet is a
i had a mini project with cups and saucers and bowls and plates. all taken with a large camera on sheet film, processed in coffee and print developer .. scanned
you read it right. i made myself a close up attachment for my graflex slr. i did this a handful of years ago because i wanted to do macro work,
originally … i made 4 exposures, 1 with NO filtration and 3 others ( RGB ) and i was going to make a trichrome image of these coffee cups that
my last entry i mentioned i had finished exposing about 36 sheets of film. it was more than that .. 4 bag-mags filled with a variety of tmx ( 100
the last few days i have been using a graflex slr ( series D ) .. just moments ago i exposed my last 12 exposure ” bag mag ” full
in a recent interview with on the onwardphoto blog, jorg colberg spoke about the importance of writing about photography. http://tinyurl.com/qalulvr i couldn’t agree more with what he said. often times
again with my paper negative tests my dektol tests my dektol + sumatra coffee developer split development tests today i loaded film holders up and exposed the negatives in
i recently mentioned something about a paper negative test. i suggested bracketing exposures and judging your negatives … here, i have uploaded 3 images the first as the caption
some people hate paper negatives. they have trouble with them because they don’t realize how they need to be exposed and treat them like film. they develop them like regular prints,
i am a little rusty at making paper negatives with anything but ansco 130 with the 130 i used to leave a tray out till it turned black and was still
