landscapes ?
The photographs taken as “landscape photographs” really are not what was in front of the camera at all. Well, they are what was in front of the camera but that’s
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developer made with coffee and washing soda
it looks like i am off the good – stuff
after 15 years, or actually more like almost 18 or 20 years … i am not using ansco 130 developer to process my prints, paper negatives, film or work as an additive
recent work
i haven’t posted here in a few months for a variety of reasons. but i am here again with a handful of photographs … as seen in a few other of
working with lumenized prints again
i am never quite sure what to call sun prints using regular old photo paper. with plant materials and the same paper they are called lumen prints, with a pinhole
recent events
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
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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the plates were still wet
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
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
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.
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 …