darkroom – Page 3 – So Many Stars

Solar Prints

so, my friend Lorna showed up yesterday with a pack of solar paper, the kind you’d make photograms of leaves and such outside in the sun. but i decided to print some negatives and chose some lensbaby shots i did with a model friend named Elizabeth. i let her roll around and play sexy andContinue reading “Solar Prints”

Salt Prints on Bamboo Paper

my pal <a href=”http://vernontrent.deviantart.com/”>Vernon Trent</a> recommended using Hahnemühle’s Bamboo inkjet paper for making salt prints. he said that he had a fair amount of success with it, so i decided to give it a try and got some interesting results. on this particular print, i used some really fine sand paper to remove the inkjetContinue reading “Salt Prints on Bamboo Paper”

salted paper prints

well after about a full day of curve design and some tweaks this morning, i finally got a curve that produces a fairly linear curve for salted paper prints. the salted paper process was invented by William Henry Fox Talbot, known as The Father of Modern Photography, in 1833 while he was on his honeyContinue reading “salted paper prints”

Palladium Prints

a little while ago i ventured back into the darkroom armed with some new ideas for tweaking my palladium printing techniques. i wasn’t happy with the prints that i’d made before. there were issues with clearing the prints and the density of the blacks wasn’t exactly where i wanted it to be. i’d read onContinue reading “Palladium Prints”

recent developments

wow, been a bit too long since my last post. i finally took some time for myself to catch up on some things that i’ve been meaning to do. the Wet Transfer workshop was a wonderful success and i’d really like to share this process with more people. for now we’re working on details ofContinue reading “recent developments”

my roots are showing

so, as many of you might know, i’ve been shooting a lot of film lately. and while scanning the negatives, sharing the results on-line, and making some high-quality inkjet prints is great way to get feedback on my work, that wasn’t the ultimate goal. ideally, the negatives should be printed in a traditional darkroom usingContinue reading “my roots are showing”