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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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emulsive

September 29, 2016August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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new paper negatives from rockland AG+ emulsion

November 14, 2015 by wp-admin

i’ve been coating thing with rockland emulsion off and on since i was told about it in 1986.  i had never made the investment in a tube of ag+.  i’ve

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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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recent events

April 16, 2014December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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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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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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5×7 glass

April 23, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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 (

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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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recent LUMEN prints from glass plates ( The Dream )

April 17, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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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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