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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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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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Clubbing

Delta 3200 in DD-X.

Third of Four in my cell phone series – here, we have a cell phone providing the entire club experience. Without the people.

Shot in New York in mid-2010.

Unrelated: I finished construction of my new vacuum frame today! Very excited to get started on some larger gum prints. Now if I could only say that I had mastered smaller gum prints first…

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Social Connectors

Second in a series of four on cell phones. (I’ve lost the film and developer data.)

I’ve got two more of these to post, and now a boatload of color film that just came back from Miller’s. Huzzah!

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Navigational Aid

Ilford FP4, DD-X.

For those wondering about the silence on the posts: two reasons.

First, I’ve been working on gum prints for the last month. Pretty much every night. So far, I’ve ruined something like 25 prints. Things are improving, and I’ve got a particular look that I’m trying to achieve, so it will probably be a while before I get there. When I do you can rest assured a post will wind up here!

Second, I entered four shots in the annual Phillips Mill juried exhibit …[more]

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Huey

A crop from a Mamiya shot; hp5+, Microphen.

Huey was happily pickin’ as I walked past him in Suburban Station on the evening of January 5th. I was impressed. While killing time while waiting for a friend I was also doing my best impression of Bruce Gilden that evening – walking around with my Mamiya 7 and a small flash, which I set off in several peoples’ faces. I had often wondered at the reactions he got from his work. And now I have a small taste of that. (Most people are, for the …[more]

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Hard Lines and Chilly Softness

Acros 100; Xtol.

The deep blankets of snow on everything remind me of a bit of Dickenson:

Snow beneath whose chilly softness
Some that never lay
Make their first Repose this Winter
I admonish Thee

Blanket Wealthier the Neighbor
We so new bestow
Than thine acclimated Creature
Wilt Thou, Austere Snow?
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Out of Order

A couple of weeks ago, I was in Jim Thorpe, PA with a number of the Philly Photobloggers. This shot came from that morning, in what used to be East Mauch Chunk. I’ve got more film to finish developing from the day but this early pick wheedled its way in to my mind and wouldn’t leave, so here it is a bit earlier than its bretheren…

HP5+, Xtol.

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