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
Category: liquid emulsion
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a few more paper negatives
as i wait for single coated paper to flatten out so i can coat them a 2nd time i have a few paper negatives exposed the last few days in
a few paper negatives from yesterday’s emulsion
here are a few paper negatives from the emulsion i made yesterday the exposures were long (gloomy day to begin with) i exposed a handful of 35mm paper negatives, and a few
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noodling and washing
well mixing the ingredients was easy, letting it setup in a sealed jar was easy .. getting it out of the ball jar was easy … “noodling” and washing the emulsion
first emulsion made by me since 1986/1987
its been about 30 years since i dabbled in the dark arts of making a photographic emulsion using silver. i make cyanotype-stuff all the time but that is child’s play
new paper negatives from rockland AG+ emulsion
i’ve been coating thing with rockland emulsion off and on since i was told about it in 1986. i had never made the investment in a tube of ag+. i’ve
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new caffenol, new liquid emulsion
over the last 10 years i have grabbed the caffenol c bull by the horns and wrestled it to the ground. soon after i was given the “teaspoon” recipe i
limited success with home brew tintype developer
for a few weeks now i have been experimenting with various reversal developers to make silver gelatin tintypes. i abandoned my old stock of liquid emulsion for an unopened bottle
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More tintypes
i loaded up a graflex series d plate holder yesterday and filled it with 6 coated plates. i exposed them heavily hoping my dead emulsion would like extra light and
new dry plate tintypes
for a little under a year i have been playing with dry plate tintypes+ambrotypes. my glass plate history began back when i was in a directed study photography class at
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
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
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 (
