Recent content by mattragen

Well exposed with nice highlights where expected and good shadows. If this is intended to be an experiment to test development times, it seems like a pretty reasonable effort. For my taste, however, my eyes are distracted by the shadow at the bottom of the frame. A bit of dodging might be...

Thanks! It took me a month of trial and error to get to these images. But, I was a teaching assistant for an alt process printing class and so I had the time and incentive to work on getting it right. And, I've found that the failure rate is about 50% - that is, something goes awry on about half...

Yep. Gumoil has its challenges and seeing images on the Internet can be underwhelming. But, I like the crunchy texture of the prints. It's an unforgiving process if you want detail - but I'm printing big on 22x30" paper with an image size of about 16x21" or about equal to A2 paper. At that...

Thanks! I do know several alt process photographers in the Northwest but I'm not familiar with the group and am curious to learn more. As an aside, I figured out how to add a photo have edited my post to include a gumoil photo.

Hi folks! Technically, I've been lurking here for years. But, in reality, I simply forgot that I had an account on this site and so Occam's Razor was applied. "Out of sight, doesn't exist." Until this week, that is. I've been doing a fair amount of work with the gumoil process over the last 3-4...