post alternative techniques

[Vaughn]

Pt/Pd on Arches Platine
5x7 Contact scanned

mikeprzybyla.zenfolio.com

I like this one!

[Andrew O'Neill]

I really like it, Michael P. Grain elevator?

[Michael Przybyla]

Thanks for the positive comments.

Taken in April at Tillman Cranes Erie Canal workshop. The grain silos were in Buffalo, NY where we had access both inside and outside to some of them.

Mike

[Winger]

These are some of what I did in a Mordancage workshop last weekend. They're contact prints from 4x5 - the flowers were done with a Cambo and a 210mm (IIRC) and the piano was with a speed graphic using the bottom lens from some binoculars.

[tgtaylor]

Excellent work and composition Winger! Your post "turned me on" to this process which is set-out in the James book and it's on my list of processes to work with.

Thomas

[mdm]

Nice to see something different for a change. Thanks for posting.

[Winger]

Excellent work and composition Winger! Your post "turned me on" to this process which is set-out in the James book and it's on my list of processes to work with.

Thomas

Thank you! If you can find a class, it's worth it. I've read about it, but seeing a master do it and having her look over your shoulder is so worth it. My workshop was taught by Elizabeth Opalenik - she lives in CA, I believe. I tend to be pretty nonchalant about chemicals, but these are pretty nasty - you don't want to "play" with them without knowledge of their danger. And there's way more to doing it than the quick blurb in the James book describes. From about step 3 onward, it isn't that simple. The emulsion starts to loosen during that first wash. There's also way more to step 6 than what is described. And though he says few papers work anymore, that's not entirely true. But it's way more fun than I've had in awhile and I can't wait to get the chemicals and start working with it.

[Anonymousish]

Single element shot of chairs on paper negative through late XIX-th century Kodak 4x5.

Miles

[Dan Dozer]

These are some of what I did in a Mordancage workshop last weekend. They're contact prints from 4x5 - the flowers were done with a Cambo and a 210mm (IIRC) and the piano was with a speed graphic using the bottom lens from some binoculars.

Great stuff and great work for your first try. I'm just getting into Mordencage myself as well. Fun process, but very aggrevating and unpredictable.

[Nathan67]

Wow... finally got through all 154 pages of this über-thread! Some really amazing techniques and images here.. i see carbon dominating quite easily, but for me, the stand out images are Gandolfi's Bromoils... just fantastic work that has me totally inspired to try this out myself! Gandolfi.. var forberedt for ein PM med spørsmål om hjelp med å fa tak i kjemi osv her i skandinavia!

Anyhow.. I found only two posts of Lith prints... I am quite new to lith, but find it totally addictive and "five minutes in the darkroom" can quickly turn into three hours and I havnt even noticed....

Here is a scan of a recent print, I was hired by the church admin office to photograph a priest who is about to retire, all retired priests have there portraits hanging somewhere in the church where they worked, going back hundreds of years... Once the medium format digital shots were in the can I pulled out my Crown Graphic put on the Kodak Ektar 203mm f7.7 and shot this on 5x4" Polaroid T55.

Printed at a little under 8x10 on Fomatone MG warmtone paper this was a test print before doing the final "big" 28x36cm print