Photography, Coffee Developers, and Homemade Cameras
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i’ve been toying with tri chromes, or tri chrome-esque photographs for a few years now. i first learned about trichromes after reading and seeing the photographs made by the russian photographer
Continue reading…making color where there is only black and white
The Last Photo i’m a little late to find this, but i did and i am posting it here. i’ve made a lot of last photos, looking back at
just made a handful of cyanotypes lately using paper coated and left in a light safe in a humid basement for the last 7 or 8 months. the paper was not
i haven’t posted here in a few months for a variety of reasons. but i am here again with a handful of photographs … as seen in a few other of
about 15 years ago i used a can of what was called GAF UNIVERSAL DEVELOPER. it was propping up a broken window sash in a loft i was renting. it
how much exposure with negative film, is too much. should you over expose your negatives? should they be thin or dense? when i first began developing my own film, i
can’t not take photographs of my favorite drink
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
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
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
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
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 …
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
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 …
a semi centennial camera stand is a camera stand on wheels. it can slide up and down ( counter balanced with springs ) and many portrait photographers had their cameras