what was the last thing you made ?

[removed account4]

there are the threads about printing
there are the threads about darkrooms &c

for alt process folks ..
what was the last thing you coated / made ?

( lumen/retina prints, hand coated silver gelatin {bottle or home brew) PT/PD, nitrocellulose &C )

thanks !

 

[pdeeh]

i did a couple of cyanos last week while the sun was out, using paper I coated in august. It had turned rather an alarming shade of green in storage but it still seemed to print ok.

last thing I made as in mixed/coated was a few ml of cyanotype solutions at a friend's house, and then coated paper in their gloomy kitchen and dried the sheets on toast racks by their woodburning cooking range. We made cyanotype of dock leaves and willowherbs and stuff the next day ("world cyanotype day" September 19 2015)

 

[Rick A]

Winter will be upon us soon enough, gearing back up for carbon transfer printing plus cyanotypes, also finishing up the autumn season's film for printing.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

A carbon transfer and a kallitype. I used 4 month old tissue and it worked quite well... although it took much longer to develop. Carbon transfer printing season is here!

 

[Jeff Bradford]

I made a flash-delay so I could use electronic flash with old M-bulb cameras.

 

[removed account4]

coated a bunch of paper for cyanotypes and liquid E.

 

[Peter Schrager]

Coated 5 different papers with albumen to see which one I like the best...whipping it up in studio!!!

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[Tom Taylor]

I shot this negative and printed it as a Salt Print last month:

http://spiritsofsilver.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/Meek_Mansion_3.250232935_large.jpg

I have a road trip planned for this weekend to shoot some negatives and print them as Van Dyke's and Kallitype's in the coming weeks. The subject matter compliments the process.

Thomas

 

[ajmiller]

Made plenty of mistakes but finally managed my first salt print.

 

[Fr. Mark]

Ware's new cyanotypes last night and leftover paper that doesn't keep well once coated was used to make photograms of leaves with my 12 year old.

 

[SMBooth]

Learning Kallitype, and just finding out that 140 weight paper sucks. Back to the 300 weight.

 

[Tom Taylor]

If the trouble is that the paper is falling apart in the wash from handling, try putting a sheet of non-metallic window screen in the tray and use it to lift your paper. You can find it at most hardware stores and they will cut-off a small piece for about $1. I bought a small sheet for Japanese Kozo paper that I got from B&S. I n addition to the sensitizing and processing, Kozo has to be sized so a lot of time in the water.

Thomas

 

[ThePhotoChemist]

I've recently had some success with my Lippmann plate experiments! I didn't want to make a big update because there's still a ton of things I'm playing with. I was working so hard to get a reliable process in time to catch the Fall colors, it's been sucking all my time up... I have a few days left, still!

Sensitized with erythrosine and ethyl violet. There's an overall blue cast to the image, I think due to it possibly being a massive overexposure & under developed, which nonetheless produced an okay outcome. This was a 2 hour exposure, although I think realistically it should be closer to 10-20 minutes! Hopefully I'll have better results by the end of the week.

 

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i just finished making this a little bit ago
it is a sheet of 4x5 film, to be honest i don't even recognize the notch code
|-------U---vU--| but that's ok... brand and iso doesn't really matter...

its a 1hour exposed f3.5 at sunset and soon after srcanned
i added color to it after i inverted and cropped it. usually i make
retina prints, this is the 2nd one i have made with film, the first one was
color film, this one is b/w. i should have started the exposure a few hours before and
let it go for 3-4 hours my results would have been better...

 

[dpurdy]

I am trying for some time now to take the process question out of my creative process. Which is to say that I am trying to be integrated with how I do what I do so that the creative aspect is only my vision and what that says to me. A person can go infinite directions with process. The important thing is to find your personal mother lode of creative expression. I have settled on what I do technically. It is my language. Not that it is better or advanced beyond any other, it just works for me. So for now and for some time in the past and the future I work with palladium and platinum. I have a very long time supply of all the ingredients for my process so the cost it moot for now. If I run out of my materials then I might change what I do.

 

[removed account4]

made another contemporary retina from a film exposure today,
the un-inverted scan of the stain is here
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)
i can't show the worked on, inverted &c thing here sp ...
http://www.dpug.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=2351&c=17
8 hour exposure on tmy4oo ...
scanned the image stain (retina image)
did the hocus pocus ..
you would think a retina image would take less time to
stain onto the film (being iso 400 ) it takes the same amount of time
or more, than it takes the stain onto photo paper

 

[removed account4]

been making xerox negatives
and sun prints
here's a local canadian