peroxide based photographic reversals
im back at attempting to making direct postive reversals again. there have been a number of different ways to do these over the years, some use toxic chemistry ( sulfuric
Category: technique and style
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back to the 1920s
ive traced my roots in photography, to the 1920s i think. my values seem to revolve around people like the dadaists and rusian constructavists and surrealists more than the new traditionalists
sun print
i realized last week the emulsion is sensitive enough to print through the photo paper if reversed. this was printed in full sun for about 1 hour
a few prints
this first prints were made by a digital overhead transparancy at my local copy shop originally it was a digital files taken in a snow storm at a local park.
chloro bromide emulsion #2
its been a while since i made the emulsion i wrote about here but that isn’t to say it hasnt been on my mind since a year ago january. i’ve been
a few hand tinted images
first .. i probably have said this or explained my “terminology” if i add colors by hand with paints &c i call the images hand painted, but if i
quebec sun prints
a few summers ago i went to quebec i have wanted to make prints from the digital files, and the other day i finally got a chance to do it. the
difference between lenses and images
there are all sorts of lenses. some are meant to be sharp and corrected and some are not. the ones that are not are usually soft focus lenses, which were made
electric midnight blue
working on a new project i am going to call electric midnight blue it uses a varient of the sunprints i have been making these images were all made today in overcast
contact sheets
aside from sending rolls of 110 or 127vp to the local drug store or fotomat, or mail away to yorks i processed my own black and white film. when i was
TMY retina image
as i have been making long exposures again here is another one on kodak tmax 400 film this is a very long exposure, reversed negative tweeked levels and color removed and then
cyclone negative cyanotype
a couple of days ago i was making some more cyanotypes i loaded up some contact frames with waxed negatives to see if i could get a better print than i did
the honey jar
there is a bee keeper on the other side of town i like to buy honey from. i usually drive down his drivewaywhich looks like it isn’t really there from
making color where there is only black and white
i’ve been toying with tri chromes, or tri chrome-esque photographs for a few years now. i first learned about trichromes after reading and seeing the photographs made by the russian photographer
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waxed field and photograms
another from a recent slew of waxed negative cyanotypes one of the last coated papers from the winter/spring when i coated and coated to use up my sensitizer. the paper
