post alternative techniques

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Tri, looks nice.Can't wait to see the plate.

[Tri Tran]

Tri, looks nice.Can't wait to see the plate.

Thanks Jim, give me more time and will show you a Carbon print printed using Ambrotype.

[Vaughn]

How fun!

Perhaps someday I will make my own dry plate, then a carbon from that -- seems like a logical progression. Best of luck making the carbon image!

Vaughn

[Tri Tran]

How fun!

Perhaps someday I will make my own dry plate, then a carbon from that -- seems like a logical progression. Best of luck making the carbon image!

Vaughn

Great fun Vaughn , stay tuned.

[tgtaylor]

Port of San Francisco, 2013



Well the sun has risen above the trees in the back yard and once again I'm able to do some alternative printing. Here's a salt print, split toned with gold sodium acetate and gold borax with some technical difficulities, I'm afraid: Light Haki brush strokes, visible on the print but not so much on the scan, a margin issue on the right but mostly cropped out, and I forgot to wash between toners. This is the 2d of 4 prints. The 4th is the best but it's still drying.

Taking this wasn't as straight-forward as you would imagine it was either. I had driven down after work last Wednesday and found a parking spot just a block away which is not an easy feat in downtown San Francisco. Got the camera set-up and reached down into my pack to retrive the spot meter and, blinko, the F***ing light went out - just like that! At first I thought that security saw me in their omnipresent security cameras trying to take a picture and switched the lights off. But the lights were also off along the Embarcadero and after waiting an hour without them coming back on I packed it up and went home.

I came back the next night, Thursday, and everything went smoothly - EXCEPT that I had forgotten that I had Ilford Delta in the holders and not Fuji Acros and I didn't have the Ilford exposure curve with me! Now a 30 second exposure on Acros translates to a 2'40" exposure on Delta and my best guess that night was less than half that!

So I came back the following night, Friday, with the Ilford curve, which also proved to be the best atmospheric night of the week - no fog or clouds and zero wind. And, for the third night in a row, I managed to get a parking spot within a block of the port! Although I only had one holder with 2 sheets of film (I had wasted 4 sheets the previous night and had decided to put a financial limit on this shot), one sheet was all I needed that night.


Thomas

[Vaughn]

Way to go, Thomas! And great persevence, too!

[tgtaylor]

Thanks Vaughn!

[Tri Tran]

A 8x10 carbon print for my wife.

[SergeiR]

A 8x10 carbon print for my wife.

nicely done.

[Tri Tran]

nicely done.

Thanks Serge, she likes this kind of image though.