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
Category: technique and style
how do you do that?
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
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
Paper test
So you’ve read on the internet you can use photo paper in your camera instead of film, and you want to shoot paper negatives. This can be a lot of
Hand Held Photography
It doesn’t take long to realize that if your shutter is open and you move while you are taking your picture, it might not be good. There was a saying
Burning in a difficult print
Have you ever tried to burn in a hot spot in a print but it just wouldn’t stop being as white as your paper’s base? This happens from time to
Photography Lessons
Are you tired of the same old kind of photography class? Contact me at silvermagnet@nanianphoto.com and we can devise a personalized lesson plan. Topics to teach: Printing in a darkroom,
anything can be converted
I hate to say how many years ago but let’s just say 35 .. about 35 years ago I decided to do whatever I could to become a better printer.
recent cyanotypes
if you have poked your head into my blog and website and / or instagram feed (@jnanian) you already know that I have been making cyanotypes for almost 20 years.
waxing paper negatives revisited
If you have been here before you might have read a post I made a long while ago where I described how to wax paper negatives (https://www.nanianphoto.com/blog/how-you-make-waxed-paper-negatives/ ) .. I
little books of cyanotypes
a little over a year ago I made a little book of cyanotypes. it has images on every page and the book is tiny. It’s a book whose images change
The overpasses
We pass this stretch of road every day. The road brings people on and off and down, and up and over. Concrete and metal and sometimes there is dead grass
I won’t show my bad results but..
The summer before COVID hit I was fortunate to meet up with a friend of mine who had a studio in Connecticut. He’s a retired Art Teacher, who is a
landscapes ?
The photographs taken as “landscape photographs” really are not what was in front of the camera at all. Well, they are what was in front of the camera but that’s
Xerox Internegatives
A few recent sun prints using inexpensive Xerox Transparancies. Usually when people make digital negatives they use fancy printers, spend hours and days profiling their printer and image to look
