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making color where there is only black and white

October 16, 2016December 8, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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this is a great piece of writing !

October 16, 2016November 7, 2016 by wp-admin

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

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recent cyanotypes

September 14, 2016March 8, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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recent work

September 14, 2014August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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ansco 130

April 25, 2014August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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how much exposure, is too much ?

April 21, 2014December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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tri color again, this time coffee

March 1, 2014August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

can’t not take photographs of my favorite drink        

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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using a box camera

October 23, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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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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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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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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7×11 portriats

March 19, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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 …

semi centennial stand, what’s that ?

March 18, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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