as i have been making long exposures again
here is another one on kodak tmax 400 film
this is a very long exposure, reversed negative tweeked levels and color removed and then tint added in photoshop
multi hour retina image
reversed tinted with photoshop
like the last image i uploaded this one is also on photographic film
black white kodak tmy 400.
great film for all around photography. it is also a nice film for making 2 hour long exposures.
2:30-4:30 sunday nov 27 made with a speed graphic and ilex seminat lens ( at 3.5 ) outside was bright, the plant was backlit, with very little room light on it after 2 hours i grabbed the film and scanned it and inverted it, and tweaked the levels a bit (i made a large slow scan and the film was extremely grey from the light beam) instead of cropping the junk out of the image, i cropped the image in the film.
here it is:
2 hours, inverted+levels tweaked in photoshop
yeah i know photo paper + retina print but i have made retina film prints before and even retina glass plate images too !
inverted, desaturated contrast-tweaked and a little brownish tone added
porch
today i made with ilford film ( it seems )
a retina print tinted.
you would think paper is so slow it would take a huge exposure for paper and none for film but this film was exposed for at least an hour. unlike the color film or plate experiment it was not 1-4 hours …. and the results were OK but not like a super exposed image, unfortunately the sun sets early in the fall !
NEXT TIME i’ll do this in the am or early afternoon so i get more sun !
anyhow
here is the tinted ( photoshop! ) retina print
inverted and colorized
been making more cyanotypes lately … and have been using paper that is probably gettng close to being dead. it takes a long while to make exposures, and sometimes the color bleads out but that is OK, it is fun cheap and easy to make more sensitizer, something i will be doing probably in the next week or two. i’m not quite sure what recipe i will use. maybe i will use the 2x green : 1x ferri, maybe i will do something in between, i’m not quite sure. here are a few from ongoing series – tools and things nearby.
just a hatchet
hand wrenches some big some smaller
before they changed color
i made this retina print while i was making the hatchet cyanotype. they were both the same very long exposure. i loaded the graflex 3a up with some hand coated paper as a negative ( 2 4×5 sheets ) .. one didn’t make it, the one i fiddled with i was able to show the “invisible rays of light” usually talked about with the origins of photography
photograph of a photograph being made
