2 new titles
Just finished uploading to “blurb” 2 new books The first one, it’s visions in a cup of coffee It’s photographs made in my coffee cup The new ones are to
Category: images on hand coated paper
hand coated paper as photography paper, in camera negatives, retina prints and lumen prints.
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
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
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
recent cyanotypes
just made a handful of cyanotypes lately using paper coated and left in a light safe in a humid basement for the last 7 or 8 months. the paper was not
photo illustration sort of, PS colored photo reconstruction
a while back i made some paper negative from hand made emulsion the negatives were more like a collage of things, images, textures, brush strokes. i decided to scan big and crop
Continue reading…photo illustration sort of, PS colored photo reconstruction
double coating paper
i dug into a 1 kg jar of foma emulsion the other day. i know i can make my own but i have this still on hand so i might
hand coating xerox paper
i’ve been experimenting a little with hand coating a variety of different papers. i have a stack of paper i was given 20 years ago that is slowly being eaten
a few photograms, with hand made emulsion
i love making photograms. they only take a second, and they are a blast.
for some things, thin paper seems best
its been a week or two since i mixed up the emulsion,and started playing with it. i’ve come to the conclusion that this emulsion works likes thin smooth paper like the butcher
pine branches and needles
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
