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Tag: ambrotype

direct positive glass plate image

recent events

April 16, 2014December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

found some coated plates in a box! 5x7s ready to expose, can’t wait  🙂 my only problem is, should i make cameraless images, or glass negatives, or ambrotypes ? i

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More tintypes

January 25, 2014December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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stack of dry plates

June 15, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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safari

June 11, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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4 glass plates … then 4 paper prints

April 26, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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5×7 glass

April 23, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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 (

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more glass and metal coated

April 20, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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coating plates … how to

April 15, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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dry plates … in color

April 13, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

color images made from dry plate negatives    

hand colored work, from dry plates

April 13, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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success !

April 6, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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almost there …

April 4, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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silver gelatin tin types, another day ..

March 30, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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metal liquid light coffee

March 29, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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reversed ( positive ) silver gelatin images

March 25, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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