Photography, Coffee Developers, and Homemade Cameras
black and white photography
just got an email today and someone asked: why don’t you do wet plate photography? i had to think for a little while, not long and my answer was: because
Continue reading…recent email: hey, why don’t YOU do wet plate?!
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
you don’t need to travel far to find interesting photographs
so far i have posted a handful of trichromes i have made but using digital technology … that is making b/w images using a digital camera ( not film )
making trichrome color images is a bit addictive it is so easy and fun with a digital camera, it almost makes you feel guilty how much effort is spent when
can’t not take photographs of my favorite drink
went to the lighting supply guy today east coast lighting, nice folks ! i got some gels to match the swatchbook numbers i had and took a few more
Continue reading…a few more tri color images, kind of addictive
decided to make my first tri color image today this was made using a digital camera but i plan on using up my film making color images from black and
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
Continue reading…limited success with home brew tintype developer
the plates were sill wet, so i made some sumatranol 130 into a reversal developer / monobath and made some photograms. they are still hanging too ( all rc paper
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
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
part of a show i will be part of in providence. i thought i would hand color a few for fun excessively contrasty negatives are great for colorizing !
box cameras usually have one shutter speed and a OPEN setting for time exposures. sometimes it can be difficult to make photograph when there is a vast difference between light
