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Category: film development technique

this includes using coffee based developers, roasting coffee for developers, hand processing film

from yesterday

March 25, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

reversed ( positive ) silver gelatin images

March 25, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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7×11 portriats

March 19, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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 …

7×11 / 11×14 camera work

March 18, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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camera rubbings

March 18, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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1910-2012

March 16, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

more waxed paper negatives

March 16, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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another rubbing print

December 28, 2012August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

getting the hang of making rubbings and converting them to cyanotype negatives .. people who do rubbings, make it look so easy.  i watched some lady on youtube making a

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what the heck is a photograph, really ..

December 21, 2012August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

from time to time i get asked what is a photograph. i sometimes know how to answer, i know what i was told, and taught.   i know what i

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the caffenol cookbook

November 29, 2012December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

six, almost seven years ago i was given a recipe for caffenol c film developer by a friend whitey.  i met whitey over on apug.org, one of the 3 or

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tiles and lumen prints

April 9, 2012August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

i have been making lumen prints for a while now they are created by putting things onto a piece of photo paper and leaving it in the sun.  the sun

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chepiwanoxet

December 2, 2011August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

i have been spending more time at chepiwanoxet island these days. years ago it was an island, but when the gaulidette airplane factory was there, they trucked in dirt and

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cyanotypes and sun prints

May 21, 2011May 25, 2022 by wp-admin

i have been kind of busy the past few weeks and haven’t had a chance to update my blog.  since my last post i have added about 60 or 80

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paper, coffee glass and the sun

February 23, 2011August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

it is a long story but i will try to make it short  … we returned from the mountains a few days ago, and i went into the darkroom soon

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more work from the graflex 3A

February 15, 2011December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

at the beginning of this year i bought a graflex 3A.  i wasn’t quite sure what i was going to do with it … the shutter was old and finicky,

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