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film and paper developer made by kodak. it is like ansco 130 but no glycin

peroxide based photographic reversals

October 10, 2017 by wp-admin

im back at attempting to making direct postive reversals again. there have been a number of different ways to do these over the years, some use toxic chemistry ( sulfuric

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late summer photographs

August 22, 2017August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

just a taste of what i have been doing lately. it includes using a cyclone #3 and empire state … as usual, i have been off the beaten path, i

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chloro bromide emulsion #2

June 6, 2017June 7, 2017 by wp-admin

its been a while since i made the emulsion i wrote about here but that isn’t to say it hasnt been on my mind since a year ago january.  i’ve  been

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a few hand tinted images

May 25, 2017May 25, 2017 by wp-admin

first ..   i probably have said this or explained my “terminology” if i add colors by hand with paints &c i call the images hand painted, but if i

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latest tinted images

May 9, 2017 by wp-admin

i have been exposing film without processing it for about a year now.  i had about 20 or 25 rolls of assorted black/white and color 35mm and a couple of

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cyclone negative cyanotype

November 7, 2016August 30, 2017 by wp-admin

a couple of days ago i was making some more cyanotypes i loaded up some contact frames with waxed negatives to see if i could get a better print than i did

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emulsive

September 29, 2016August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

i thought i posted a link to this but i guess it got away from me. i was interviewed by emulsive.org a little while ago about film and emulsion and

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photo illustration sort of, PS colored photo reconstruction

June 13, 2016March 8, 2017 by wp-admin

a while back i made some paper negative from hand made emulsion the negatives were more like a collage of things, images, textures, brush strokes. i decided to scan big and crop

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a few photograms, with hand made emulsion

January 31, 2016March 8, 2017 by wp-admin

i love making photograms.  they only take a second, and they are a blast.    

for some things, thin paper seems best

January 29, 2016March 8, 2017 by wp-admin

its been a week or two since i mixed up the emulsion,and started playing with it.  i’ve come to the conclusion that this emulsion works likes thin smooth paper like the butcher

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a few more paper negatives

January 13, 2016March 8, 2017 by wp-admin

as i wait for single coated paper to flatten out so i can coat them a 2nd time  i have a few paper negatives exposed the last few days in

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new paper negatives from rockland AG+ emulsion

November 14, 2015 by wp-admin

i’ve been coating thing with rockland emulsion off and on since i was told about it in 1986.  i had never made the investment in a tube of ag+.  i’ve

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last group of cups and plates

December 24, 2014August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

i had a mini project with cups and saucers and bowls and plates.  all taken with a large camera on sheet film, processed in coffee and print developer ..  scanned

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film processed in dektol and coffee

December 19, 2014December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

my last entry i mentioned i had finished exposing about 36 sheets of film.  it was more than that ..  4 bag-mags filled with a variety of tmx ( 100

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around 36 exposures

December 14, 2014March 8, 2017 by wp-admin

the last few days i have been using a graflex slr ( series D )  ..  just moments ago i exposed my last 12 exposure  ” bag mag ” full

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