Reversals, again
I’ve been at it again. for years I’ve been working reversal developers for making positives on photo paper onsite. I’ve got some shallots that’ve been steeping for 15 weekends. shallots
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glass hand coated with photographic emulsion. either developed as a glass negative or a posutive ( silver gelatin ambrotype )
I’ve been at it again. for years I’ve been working reversal developers for making positives on photo paper onsite. I’ve got some shallots that’ve been steeping for 15 weekends. shallots
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
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
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
Continue reading…recent email: hey, why don’t YOU do wet plate?!
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
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
Continue reading…limited success with home brew tintype developer
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
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
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
the other day i processed a handful of glass plates. i scanned them &c yesterday i decided to make contact prints of the glass images. they were thin
rather than expose 6 5×7 emulsion coated glass plates as ambrotypes or glass in camera negatives made contact prints and photograms with them. 2 bath developer. 1 bath fxer (
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
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 …
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 )
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