Let it Fade
If I am correct, most serious photographers like their work to last. Just like fine art photographers only print on FB Paper, or lightfast pigment sets and would never be
Category: technique and style
how do you do that?
Its OK to use your computer
So you expose film or paper negatives and you don’t really have a full darkroom with an enlarger, or reflective enlarger or a 300 watt light bulb, what do you
the encampment
image was exposed to the sun in the early 2000s. It was a sheet of window pane I had been bringing from location to location since about 1986. I was
work in progress
this is a postage stamp size silver gelatin tintype. it was probably made just before world war 1 in order to retouch this, I inverted it to a negative blended
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
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
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
