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 …
Category: liquid emulsion
this category is a general category connected with making and using liquid emulsions.
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 hand made emulsion yet, that will happen soon enough … but i have been coating plates on and off since the mid 1980s … there
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
reversed ( positive ) silver gelatin images
im working on a project again ( i started a long while ago but life got in the way ) of making silver gelatin tintypes. i have the rockland colloid
Continue reading…reversed ( positive ) silver gelatin images
cyanotype paper coated
mixed new chemistry ( 200cc ) this morning and prepared paper to coat this afternoon. i learned form a very wise person at the RISD store that my favorite cyanotype
cyanotypes and sun prints
i have been kind of busy the past few weeks and haven’t had a chance to update my blog. since my last post i have added about 60 or 80
paper, coffee glass and the sun
it is a long story but i will try to make it short … we returned from the mountains a few days ago, and i went into the darkroom soon
