Tag: film

altprinting

Boy’s Room

Also taken this spring: gold-toned kallitype on arches HP 140#. Shot with a Mamiya 7, HP5+, developed in Xtol.

And this is gold toner #2 at the end of its life. Initially, toning happens very quickly – perhaps 3 minutes for the first shot I posted. This shot toned for 15 minutes and, as you can see, took on a more sepia characteristic. This is the same 250mL of toner as the previous two, and I believe this was the fourth reuse of that toner. All three of these are 11×14.

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Schuylkill

Taken this spring; Philadelphia, looking north from the Chestnut St. bridge. Gold toned kallitype on Arches HP 140#. Shot with a Widelux FV and Delta 3200, developed with Perceptol.

This gold toning is about the third reuse of 250mL of gold toner #2, toned with the same batch of toner as yesterday’s print. Development was identical between the two. The color has shifted slightly warmer and is still very effective at both preserving the print (replacing silver with gold) and changing …[more]

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Fire

From the 2012 St. Patty’s parade in Jim Thorpe.

Taken with a Widelux F5, on Kodak 400GC.

Recommendation: look at this one large. For some reason my image scaling program isn’t scaling this one well; it’s quite pixelated at its “small” size.

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Vague Recollection

From a photo walk through Durham Township a few weeks ago, this shot of the interior of the Durham Mill was taken with a Widelux F-V: a 35mm panoramic camera. Portra 800.

The extreme distortion at the edges is due to my mis-loading the film, an effect that I’ve since decided I like, and I keep reproducing. I’d really like to print this one on glass… perhaps after I’ve finished all of my other prints? Hmm.

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Joe

Originally shot on Delta 3200 in a Diacord G; developed in Microphen. This is a palladium-toned kallitype. I’m reasonably happy that it came out (yay, my chemistry survived the flooding) but not so thrilled with the density; this is my first kallitype on Fabriano Artistico HP 300 and I’m not sure if the paper or my technique lead to this thinner-than-usual print. I’m hoping to preshrink some FabArt and try a double-hit kallitype on it.

Regardless: as you might gather from the title, t …[more]

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Travelers

YES YES YES it’s FILM!

Shot with my Diacord G, Acros 100, DD-X.

And after replacing a dead hot water heater (probably a casualty of the flooding), I’m just about ready to re-open my dim room! It seems like forever since it was dry enough to use, and the humidity is finally down to 55%. I’m planning on some kallitypes in the next couple of days. Here’s hoping things to according to plan…

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Nate the Builder

Shot on Delta 3200 in a Mamiya 7, developed in Perceptol. Printed on Arches Aquarelle hot pressed 140# as a kallitype and toned with palladium.

From his fifth birthday, our good friend Nate.

Note that this is Nate building with Legos. Not to be confused with Nate’s other roles as truck driver, rock star, superhero, trampoline artist, and so on.

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Coffee Coffee Coffee #2

I promised this one a few days back and then was distracted by kallitype fun. Perhaps I should have just printed this and killed two birds with one stone!

Markus here was shot on my Mamiya 7, Acros 100, developed in caffenol-C for about 15 minutes at about 75 degrees. Both he and I lived to tell the tale.

Markus and Johanna both were very interested in Caffenol or I wouldn’t have picked it up right now. I admit that I’ve had a passing interest in it myself, and had washing pow …[more]

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Burlesque Nr. 3

Mamiya 7, HP5, Microphen, EI around 35000.

Yes, another 50-ish minute developing effort – then printed as a gold-toned kallitype. The print picked up more density during the toning than I expected. In the untoned print (a beautiful warm chocolate-brown) her legs had very little definition and very high contrast. About 8.5 minutes in a gold chloride toning solution just before fixing and the warm browns all turned in to cold grays, with more density and reduced contrast.

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Coffee Coffee Coffee

Acros 100, developed in… coffee.

We’ve had a couple of house guests this week – Johanna (here) and Markus (tomorrow’s post). The two of them have been on a year-long trip around the world and stopped by for a short visit on their way back to Germany. They were also curious about alt-photo processes, and I was more than happy to oblige.

Over their short stay, we made kallitypes and toned cyanotypes. We also developed film in Caffenol-C basically every day: instant coffee, was …[more]

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Burlesque Nr. 2

I love it when things just work.

From the Jim Thorpe Burlesque Festival: the negative comes from 4 rolls of HP5+, under-exposed at least 3 stops at the Mamiya’s metered 3200 (which I find to already under-expose a touch). I optimistically developed the first roll at 6400 in Microphen (finding it very thin), and then the other 3 rolls at an approximate ISO 35000 – 40 minutes, based on the response curve I’ve calculated from repeated development work with this film and developer. All of …[more]

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It’s That Simple

This one takes some explaining; it’s some of what’s been eating up my time for the past few weeks.

This shot started life on HP5+ developed in Xtol. I digitally inverted and enlarged the shot and printed it on Pictorico Ultra Premium OHP before stuffing it in to my vacuum frame (yes, that shot shows me mis-printing a positive I printed first – oops).

Traditionally, Cyanotype has a “part A” (green ferric ammonium citrate) and a “part B” ( …[more]

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