coating plates … how to
i haven’t’ coated plates with hand made emulsion yet, that will happen soon enough … but i have been coating plates on and off since the mid 1980s … there
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.
dry plates … in color
color images made from dry plate negatives
hand colored work, from dry plates
i am kind of stuck in hybrid mode these days part of me is stuck in about 1890 and the other part in 2013 .. recently i have been hand
success !
i made a handful of nice tintypes today, and ambrotypes using the dry plate method. and i am looking forward to making photographs like this … it took a lot
almost there …
im getting better at covering the plates now that the water i use to melt the emulsion is BURNING HOT. using old spent emulsion is great for learning plating technique
silver gelatin tin types, another day ..
i got the kinks out of coating plates and metal the other night. it seems my water wasn’t hot enough to melt the gelatin completely .. so i turned up
metal liquid light coffee
continuing my experiments with emulsion and coffee i coated a metal plate, and left it in my retina camera for 4 hours and processed it in sumatranol 130 instead of
reversed ( positive ) silver gelatin images
im working on a project again ( i started a long while ago but life got in the way ) of making silver gelatin tintypes. i have the rockland colloid
Continue reading…reversed ( positive ) silver gelatin images
7×11 portriats
made a handful of 7×11 portraits and i can feel for those photographers who had slow materials and kids that couldn’t sit still. it was still fun …
semi centennial stand, what’s that ?
a semi centennial camera stand is a camera stand on wheels. it can slide up and down ( counter balanced with springs ) and many portrait photographers had their cameras
7×11 / 11×14 camera work
it has been a long time since i took portraits or make any negatives using a 11×14 camera. i traded a few prints years ago for a century 8 camera
camera rubbings
last xmas i received a folding camera as a present. i made a series of rubbings and then cyanotypes from them. a lot of folks make cyanotypes and the
more waxed paper negatives
over the past few months i have been using paper negatives instead of film, and making photograms when i make cyanotypes. in other words, instead of using a film negative
