new dry plate tintypes
for a little under a year i have been playing with dry plate tintypes+ambrotypes. my glass plate history began back when i was in a directed study photography class at
Author: jnanian
I am a Freelance Photographer in Rhode Island. I make photographs using a variety of methods with and without a camera, and I teach photography online and in person. I make photo emulsions from scratch, I coat my own photo paper and make cyanotypes too.
I am a huge fan of Caffenol ( I helped write the Caffenol Cookbook ) and instead of instant coffee, I roast my own Sumatra Robusta beans. I sell them so you can make your own long lasting, film and print developer called Sumatranol. I also sell silver recovery products.
colorized providence
part of a show i will be part of in providence. i thought i would hand color a few for fun excessively contrasty negatives are great for colorizing !
using a box camera
box cameras usually have one shutter speed and a OPEN setting for time exposures. sometimes it can be difficult to make photograph when there is a vast difference between light
using a cyclone
from time to time i get asked what kind of camera i have or use or like or like to use or … my current favorite is a cyclone #3.
pine branches and needles
today i was cleaning up the darkroom a little bit actually, i was looking for an unprocessed paper negative ( eventually found it ) and while i was putting things
its been a loooong summer
i haven’t posted here since the spring … and since the summer is over and the cooler weather is here it will make it easier for me to do some
retina prints
for a few years now have been making contact prints, and camera prints with just photo paper. it started off as an experiment because i saw how easy it was
stack of dry plates
i have a stack of dry plates… some were scanned, some were left out in the sun to make cyanotypes or lumen prints and some are being printed in the
safari
a month ago we went on a safari downtown, in the heat, and the midday sun. we loaded the demlar box ( 4×5 plate camera ) some hand coated 4×5
4 glass plates … then 4 paper prints
the other day i processed a handful of glass plates. i scanned them &c yesterday i decided to make contact prints of the glass images. they were thin
5×7 glass
rather than expose 6 5×7 emulsion coated glass plates as ambrotypes or glass in camera negatives made contact prints and photograms with them. 2 bath developer. 1 bath fxer (
more glass and metal coated
last night with the radio keeping me company i heated emulsion and scrubbed glass and coated 6- 5×7, 4- 4×5 glass plates 1 – 4×5 metal sheet, and 2 trimmed
dream
they say you dream in black and white and when you awake your brain puts color to it all. i awoke and saw it all in color …
hand color, sun print .. half the dream
sometimes i run on inertia, i just am on autopilot and don’t really stop and think if i am doing something right or wrong &c. the colors were added by
recent LUMEN prints from glass plates ( The Dream )
sometimes i put a piece of glass or something out in the sun, on a sheet of photo paper i did this yesterday with some glass plates i exposed and
Continue reading…recent LUMEN prints from glass plates ( The Dream )
