restoration
Save Grandma’s prints! some are probably old, from the 1800s … I can help restore them.I’ve worked with glass plates for 40 years. I’ve also remastered cabinet cards, silver gelatin
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.
Getting GRAIN from TMax Films
so you bought some tmax100+400 4×5 film and you are tired of the clinical almost “digital” look it gives you because of it’s tabular grain. you did it, and got
Prints For Sale
I have prints and books for sale. If you see something you are interested in on my website or instagram feed drop me a line, I am happy to make
post cards
back when I was young and foolish i printed 16×20 photographs and cut them up and mailed them out as post cards to friends. sometimes they’d arrive, sometimes those of
the zone
not sure about you but sometimes I am in the zone. I have a camera or some sort of photo paper and I’m just making something. my mind wanders, I
read at your own risk
I have a messy desk, and it doesn’t take long for the desktop in my computer to be cluttered with all sorts of stuff too. Over the years I’ve been
staycation pictures
sometimes my camera goes on vacation without me. that’s my only explanation. and sometimes it is on vacation when im photographing something else. I know it sounds like it makes
Darkroom Practice
Often times people attribute great imagery to great darkroom practices, and perfect exposures in-camera. I think a lot of it has to do with imagination as well as knowing one’s
Is there a best way to make prints?
Printer? Darkroom? The answer is, yes, because if there’s not a print you really can’t share it with friends or family. On a screen is fun, and it’s great to
Restoration Services
For between 15 and 20 yeas I have been restoring people’s old photographs. I’ve worked on everything from albumen prints to color snapshots scratched, emulsion-damaged, faded, torn, yellowed or ?
why?
It is a question I get asked a lot. The answer is not an easy one, well it is if I want to repeat old standards like “because I wanted
20th roast
ITs been a while since I wrote about a roast.I figure its number 20. A short sequence from my 20th roast. I usually roast about 4-5lbs of coffee at a
en route
we travelled by train and saw the fields and smoke in the distance We watched the factories the light was dim
Reversals, again
I’ve been at it again. for years I’ve been working reversal developers for making positives on photo paper onsite. I’ve got some shallots that’ve been steeping for 15 weekends. shallots
Open Studio December
Stop byhave a slice of pizzaa cup of coffee browse the Mill.
