stack of dry plates
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
Category: technique and style
how do you do that?
safari
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
4 glass plates … then 4 paper prints
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
5×7 glass
rather than expose 6 5×7 emulsion coated glass plates as ambrotypes or glass in camera negatives made contact prints and photograms with them. 2 bath developer. 1 bath fxer (
more glass and metal coated
last night with the radio keeping me company i heated emulsion and scrubbed glass and coated 6- 5×7, 4- 4×5 glass plates 1 – 4×5 metal sheet, and 2 trimmed
dream
they say you dream in black and white and when you awake your brain puts color to it all. i awoke and saw it all in color …
hand color, sun print .. half the dream
sometimes i run on inertia, i just am on autopilot and don’t really stop and think if i am doing something right or wrong &c. the colors were added by
recent LUMEN prints from glass plates ( The Dream )
sometimes i put a piece of glass or something out in the sun, on a sheet of photo paper i did this yesterday with some glass plates i exposed and
Continue reading…recent LUMEN prints from glass plates ( The Dream )
coating plates … how to
i haven’t’ coated plates with my new hand made emulsion yet, that will happen soon enough … but i have been coating plates on and off since the mid 1980s
dry plates … in color
color images made from dry plate negatives
hand colored work, from dry plates
i am kind of stuck in hybrid mode these days part of me is stuck in about 1890 and the other part in 2013 .. recently i have been hand
success !
i made a handful of nice tintypes today, and ambrotypes using the dry plate method. and i am looking forward to making photographs like this … it took a lot
almost there …
im getting better at covering the plates now that the water i use to melt the emulsion is BURNING HOT. using old spent emulsion is great for learning plating technique
silver gelatin tin types, another day ..
i got the kinks out of coating plates and metal the other night. it seems my water wasn’t hot enough to melt the gelatin completely .. so i turned up
metal liquid light coffee
continuing my experiments with emulsion and coffee i coated a metal plate, and left it in my retina camera for 4 hours and processed it in sumatranol 130 instead of
