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
Tag: caffenol-c
developer made with coffee, washing soda, vit c
using a box camera
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
using a cyclone
from time to time i get asked what kind of camera i have or use or like or like to use or … my current favorite is a cyclone #3.
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
more glass and metal coated
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
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 …
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
7×11 portriats
made a handful of 7×11 portraits and i can feel for those photographers who had slow materials and kids that couldn’t sit still. it was still fun …
the caffenol cookbook
six, almost seven years ago i was given a recipe for caffenol c film developer by a friend whitey. i met whitey over on apug.org, one of the 3 or