It is not what I remembered
You could see the sand bar encircling the island. It was a white curved line and if you weren’t paying attention you’d run aground.
Tag: sumatra
coffee i roast for developer
The blue horizon
It was early in the day, I was walking the path. The sun was in the sky, the water and wind were welcoming me. The path was soggy, it must
Re-imagined Landscape
For a few months I have been posting images to my instagram feed that I put (reimagined landscape) in part of the description. I began putting these words next to
making color where there is only black and white
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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emulsive
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
film processed in dektol and coffee
my last entry i mentioned i had finished exposing about 36 sheets of film. it was more than that .. 4 bag-mags filled with a variety of tmx ( 100
around 36 exposures
the last few days i have been using a graflex slr ( series D ) .. just moments ago i exposed my last 12 exposure ” bag mag ” full
3 paper negatives inverted
again with my paper negative tests my dektol tests my dektol + sumatra coffee developer split development tests today i loaded film holders up and exposed the negatives in
paper negatives
some people hate paper negatives. they have trouble with them because they don’t realize how they need to be exposed and treat them like film. they develop them like regular prints,
dektol paper negatives
i am a little rusty at making paper negatives with anything but ansco 130 with the 130 i used to leave a tray out till it turned black and was still
More tintypes
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
using a cyclone
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.
hand color, sun print .. half the dream
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
recent LUMEN prints from glass plates ( The Dream )
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
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