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Tag: liquid light

pre made and bottled photographic emulsion used to coat just about anything

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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new caffenol, new liquid emulsion

October 7, 2015March 8, 2017 by wp-admin

over the last 10 years i have grabbed the caffenol c bull by the horns and wrestled it to the ground.  soon after i was given the “teaspoon” recipe i

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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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long term goal

April 30, 2014March 8, 2017 by wp-admin

i have a hard time running out of film. every time i get close someone i see on apug.org has some outdated film and i am a sucker for that stuff

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limited success with home brew tintype developer

January 31, 2014December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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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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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using a cyclone

October 6, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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.

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pine branches and needles

September 28, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

today i was cleaning up the darkroom a little bit actually, i was looking for an unprocessed paper negative ( eventually found it ) and while i was putting things

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stack of dry plates

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

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

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safari

June 11, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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4 glass plates … then 4 paper prints

April 26, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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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 …

hand color, sun print .. half the dream

April 18, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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