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Hey Johnathon if you take 285 West out of Denver it goes straight to Gunnison. Gunnison County has it all; Ghost towns, Hartman Rocks, Blue Mesa Reservoir, largest organism in the world (an aspen...
I just finished a project where I shot 140 wet plate portraits in the studio. I never shoot indoors, always out in the sun, so I wanted to invest the least amount of money in lights. I bought two...
Thanks guys! It was a fun/frustrating project! Open house is this Friday, everyone's welcomed.
Last one...hopefully this rotates correctly, if not, you get the idea.
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Just thought I'd share what I've been working on for the last two month. The end is in sight! Western State Colorado University commissioned me to build a bar on campus and to "be creative." So I...
Pinhole assist for wet platers!
Wet Plate image from a series I'm about to wrap up.... finally.
8x8 ambrotype, 6 seconds at 4.5 with indoor lighting (2 LED floodlamps and 12 CFL bulbs)
Thanks Jeff
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Not sure what format is used here, maybe 4x5? He's got a great website too.
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Thanks for the help Gents. I took your advice and reduced the temperature in my darkroom to 65 degrees. I also put my acetone in the fridge and the colder temperatures produced a print without...
I've been involved with the Rawlins Oil process for almost a year now and have had a tumultuous relationship with my sensitizing technique. The Rawlins process involves sensitizing a piece of...
Thanks for making the video! I love watching the work flow of other wet platers. You run you glass cutter through a bar of soap!? Brilliant, I'm doing that.
Yes you can but you have to push the plate down quickly in the silver. The problem with this method is, as the silver flows over the plate you may get silver lines that form as the silver halts...
Knowing how large you want to shoot without going over in size is also something to consider. That's a hard one to predict without actually shooting though. I converted an 8x10 B&J camera into a...
I'm definitely not a pro in bellows making but I have made two of them, one for my 12x20 and another for my 8x10. They're hard and vary labor intensive. I say this because you only want to make a...
Wow what a beautiful image! Simple yet powerful composition. Very reminiscent of something Stieglitz might have shot with O'Keeffe as his model. Love it!
This was a difficult shooting day. I actually took this picture last year and tried to print it in salt to no avail. I was trying to trouble shoot issues out in the field with 1 model and 4 helpers...
I never used a respirator. The collodion can be poured outside and fixed outside as well. Not a lot of fumes accumulate. But I agree with Corran, it gets wicked hot in there. Find some shade to...
I use to have a portable darkroom in the back of my truck but have since moved away from that and now use a Eskimo ice fishing tent. It's pretty light tight right out of the box but there is some...
Good luck with that Bob. The most I've ever done in one day were 8 salt prints of one image, it almost killed me! I'm going to brew another pot of coffee and watch those two videos that I saw when...
Ha! I feel you.
Thanks for the compliment Imsonegative!
Nana, I love the Oil process. You were the one that said to continue with it when I gave up on the process. So, thank you! I took your advice.
Jeff
Thanks Jody s!
Denny, I googled his images, a compliment indeed! Thank you, I'm going to check his stuff out in detail. Thank you
Jeff
This is a Rawlins Oil print from a 12x12 wet plate negative. I'm digging the Rawlins so much that I'm leaving salt printing which I HAD considered the bees knees.
-140lb Arches Platine and Graphic...
Love this! I really like the look of the cold pressed paper. Beautifully warm mood you created here. Love the light reflections in the floor.
Artistic styles, like fashion find there way back to the main stream. Pictoralism is alive and well and incorporating itself into our modern time. Check out the amazingly beautiful game LIMBO and...
That paragraph from Ernest J Theisen seems right Randy. I guess it's the same principle as using carbon tissue since it's basically gelatin covered paper though not colored.
Fr. Mark the final support paper isn't treated with dichromate. The final support could be; fixed out photo paper, water color paper or even glass. If you were so inclined Jim Fitzgerald, Andrew...
Fr. Mark Oil Printing or Rawlins Oil Printing is the parent process to the Bromoil Process. There's not a lot of info out there but I'll leave you a few links that helped me. I love the process...
Well said Jim! It took me a few years to finally settle in to a process that I love and resembles the pictoralist style. I shoot large glass negatives for POP printing and had tried albumen, salt,...
I don't know about historical framing but I like to keep my framing for ambros really simple. I use a flat black metal frame and off white or cream matte (I don't use white because it's too bright)....
Yeah, Borut is an amazing guy and will respond to emails if you have questions about the process. I did notice he used yellow beeswax too, yellow and white all being equal but in my POP printing...
Here's a picture I did this weekend. It's a 12x12 inch wet plate negative that I shot on a B&J 8x10 camera that I converted to a 12x20. I find myself using the 12x12 square format about 90% of the...
Beeswax won't give you a semi gloss look. Although Renaissance Wax Polish might.
I was told to use only white beeswax. I can only assume that yellow beeswax would partially obscure the print and affect the over all tone. I mix my beeswax and lavender oil in a dedicated, small,...
Waxing prints with beeswax and lavender oil adds more depth to the blacks and gives a nice satin finish to the print. Waxing is a must in my book! Make sure you tape down the print, you don't want...
Beautiful pic!! Love the composition.
Thank you both for the reply. I'll buy some industrial grade borax before trying your recipe Sandy. I really love the deep chocolate/black tone the Ellie's recipe gives. However, Sandy how much...
I make my own toner following Ellie Young's Gold Borax recipe. 1000ml distilled water, 6gm borax (I use 20 mule team) and 12ml of 1% gold chloride. The first batch I made toned my salt prints...