Salt Prints
It’s been a busy week here in quarantine-land! Jakob (my son, now a 9th grader) is in a one-week mini-course exploring experimental photography. Since we’re all in lockdown for COVID-19,…
May 17, 2020
Tag: altprinting
Dry plate tintype developer, redux
Apologies for this being a little rambling and unfocused – this has been sitting in my queue since 2016! Time to pull together the details I’ve forgotten and get this…
May 14, 2020
Printing Casein on Glass
In the last few days I’ve gotten two questions about printing on glass. What a fantastic coincidence! It must mean it’s time to write about it here. 🙂 I started…
August 15, 2014
Fine, I’ll Make My Own !%#*@@ Film
When writing computer programs, there’s a tradition of having your first one say “Hello World.” So that’s the title of this shot, which is from my first roll of homemade…
May 27, 2014
Dry plate tintype
Over labor day weekend, I had a few photographers and alt-printers over for printfest 2013 – a chance for me to teach a little alt-photo, experiment a little, and for…
October 21, 2013
The Colors of Cyanotype
Cyanotypes are one of the easiest alt process prints to make. Bought as a kit from just about anywhere, you get two bottles: part “A” and part “B”, which you…
September 8, 2013
Carbon printing
Well, I finally gave in. I’ve avoided doing any carbon printing for years now. From everything I’ve ever read, Carbon Printing is a fickle beast. It likes a clean, orderly…
May 2, 2013
Art of the State 2013
Good news arrived in the mail – “Joe” will be showing at the State Museum of PA in Harrisburg from June 22nd through September 8th. This is their 46th annual…
December 12, 2012
Inkodye
A year or two ago, I stumbled across a product called “Inkodye”. It’s a light-sensitive fabric dye system, which at the time was marketed in something like 12 or 14…
April 13, 2013
The Chiba System, Part 2
Following up on my earlier post on The Chiba System, results on that final print were mixed. From a distance it looks somewhat reasonable: … but once you get up…
April 7, 2013
The Chiba System
I love making gum and casein prints. I don’t love that they both rely on dichromate (a form of hexavalent chromium) – a known carcinogen and a suspected mutagen. So…
February 26, 2013
2-part cyanotypes (Part I)
I enjoy printing cyanotypes: simple chemistry, simple reactions, nice deep blues, non-toxic, and the moment you drop it in water is dramatic. It’s very straightforward and difficult to do wrong…
January 29, 2013
5 ways to improve your Kallitypes
I really like Kallitypes. They’re a simple process. The final prints can take on the characteristics (both visual and chemical) of palladiotypes and platinotypes. And because you start with iron…
January 7, 2013
5 ways to improve your gum prints
Over the last two years of heavy experimentation with bichromate processes (gum arabic or ammonium caseinate on various papers as well as glass), I’ve had to troubleshoot a lot of…
December 31, 2012
The Making of a Widow
This is the project that took up most of my 2012. And it’s what I wanted to post about repeatedly during the year, but my old blog software just wasn’t…
December 25, 2012
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…
July 17, 2012