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
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developer made with coffee and washing soda
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 …
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
Agfa Shur Shot
i was given an agfa shur shot camera years ago and didn’t use it much. it is a box camera from the 1930s, a basic camera. it isn’t the most
providence
i am involved with a project with a few other photographers in rhode island … the providence grid project. it was thought of by a photographer named paul shelasky. together