Photography, Coffee Developers, and Homemade Cameras
examples of latest photography i have been involved in
went to the lighting supply guy today east coast lighting, nice folks ! i got some gels to match the swatchbook numbers i had and took a few more
Continue reading…a few more tri color images, kind of addictive
for a few weeks now i have been experimenting with various reversal developers to make silver gelatin tintypes. i abandoned my old stock of liquid emulsion for an unopened bottle
Continue reading…limited success with home brew tintype developer
the plates were sill wet, so i made some sumatranol 130 into a reversal developer / monobath and made some photograms. they are still hanging too ( all rc paper
i loaded up a graflex series d plate holder yesterday and filled it with 6 coated plates. i exposed them heavily hoping my dead emulsion would like extra light and
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
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 !
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
