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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
Tag: tintypes
silver gelatin tintypes, modern tintypes, instant images on metal
limited success with home brew tintype developer
for a few weeks now i have been experimenting with various reversal developers to make silver gelatin tintypes. i abandoned my old stock of liquid emulsion for an unopened bottle
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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
new dry plate tintypes
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
more glass and metal coated
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
dream
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 …
success !
i made a handful of nice tintypes today, and ambrotypes using the dry plate method. and i am looking forward to making photographs like this … it took a lot
almost there …
im getting better at covering the plates now that the water i use to melt the emulsion is BURNING HOT. using old spent emulsion is great for learning plating technique
silver gelatin tin types, another day ..
i got the kinks out of coating plates and metal the other night. it seems my water wasn’t hot enough to melt the gelatin completely .. so i turned up
metal liquid light coffee
continuing my experiments with emulsion and coffee i coated a metal plate, and left it in my retina camera for 4 hours and processed it in sumatranol 130 instead of
