Anyone Know The Best Technique to Obtain Aged Look (Like Nagle's Work)?

[waynear3]

Does anyone know how to recreate a process similar to Joshua Jensen Nagle's work? The best examples of his work can be found here, on Artmo | Art Market Online (my favorite sites to check out great photography and techniques – check it out if you already haven't).

For an example of the technique I'm looking to recreate, check out his Bears piece.

It says "Diasec Mount to panel," yet to be honest I have no idea what this means and am hoping someone here might.

Thank you, all. Hope someone can provide some guidance. If not recreating the actual process, simple tips and techniques to obtaining the same end result would be great. I love the aged and tempered looks to these pieces and would like to create my own landscapes utilizing a similar technique.

[D. Bryant]

Does anyone know how to recreate a process similar to Joshua Jensen Nagle's work? The best examples of his work can be found here, on Artmo | Art Market Online (my favorite sites to check out great photography and techniques – check it out if you already haven't).

For an example of the technique I'm looking to recreate, check out his Bears piece.

It says "Diasec Mount to panel," yet to be honest I have no idea what this means and am hoping someone here might.

Thank you, all. Hope someone can provide some guidance. If not recreating the actual process, simple tips and techniques to obtaining the same end result would be great. I love the aged and tempered looks to these pieces and would like to create my own landscapes utilizing a similar technique.

Why don't you let the artist explain - he isn't a photographer IMO. I mention this without prejudice, BTW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXx9S...eature=related

Don Bryant

[Brian Ellis]

If you Google on "Diasec mount" you'll find a detailed explanaton of its meaning.

[Michael Gordon]

The Diasec mount and the "aged look" look of his work have nothing to do with each other.

[Joe Smigiel]

I've gotten similar (though not identical) color results from gross overexposure of a print (3-5 stops) and then bleaching back in a potassium ferricyanide bath +/- a little potassium bromide (or sepia toner bleach bath). If you don't fix or tone afterward, the print starts to take on those funky colors as the rehalogenated silver reacts with light and the atmosphere. The bleaching may also give a funky textural look to the print. All of this is fugitive though so be prepared to scan the print if you wish to preserve an effect.

Nagle's work seems to have higher contrast and saturation than I get with the bleach technique. Maybe he's selectively toning areas as in Mortensen's Metalchrome process.

Joe

[jnantz]

if you process your film in coffee,
and scan the film as a "color negative"
you will also get similar colors ..

[waynear3]

Thank you, Joe and Jnanian.

Process the film in coffee is something I've never even heard about. I'll give it a go and see what I come up with.

Thanks again!

[David Luttmann]

if you process your film in coffee,
and scan the film as a "color negative"
you will also get similar colors ..

This is interesting. Do you mean you shoot a transparency film like Astia, process it in coffee, the scan as a neg?

The effect looks interesting.

[jnantz]

This is interesting. Do you mean you shoot a transparency film like Astia, process it in coffee, the scan as a neg?

The effect looks interesting.

nope you can get that funky tone by shooting b/w film and processing it in coffee.
if you scan the black and white film or prints as color, you get all the tones
that aren't black and white. i never scan anything a black and white ..

i have also gotten wacky colors like that by shooting way-expired, poorly stored
800 fuji film, and overexposing like mad. nothing as elaborate as joe mentions.
it might be worth toning already processed film in coffee ( steeping it in caffenol c )
even thought it won't develop it might be fun to see what would happen.

good luck!
john

[cblurton]

You could try contacting him at info@jensennagle.com .