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Tag: dry plate tintypes

hand coated photography emulsion on a metal plate developed as a direct positive. instant photography from the early 1900s, like a polaroid.

retina FILM print

November 26, 2016March 8, 2017 by wp-admin

yeah i know photo paper + retina print but i have made retina film prints before and even retina glass plate images too !         today i made with

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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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recent email: hey, why don’t YOU do wet plate?!

May 16, 2014March 8, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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recent events

April 16, 2014December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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More tintypes

January 25, 2014December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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new dry plate tintypes

January 18, 2014August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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more glass and metal coated

April 20, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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dream

April 19, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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 …

coating plates … how to

April 15, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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success !

April 6, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

i made a handful of nice tintypes today, and ambrotypes using the dry plate method. and  i am looking forward to making  photographs like this …  it took a lot

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silver gelatin tin types, another day ..

March 30, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

i got the kinks out of coating plates and metal the other night. it seems my water wasn’t hot enough to melt the gelatin completely ..  so i turned up

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metal liquid light coffee

March 29, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

continuing my experiments with emulsion and coffee i coated a metal plate, and left it in my retina camera for 4 hours and processed it in sumatranol 130 instead of

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reversed ( positive ) silver gelatin images

March 25, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

im working on a project again ( i started a long while ago but life got in the way ) of making silver gelatin tintypes.  i have the rockland colloid

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