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Potassium Dichromate and Other Influencers

so, i’ve been itching to get down into the darkroom again and try contact printing some of my 4×5 negatives with some of the traditional processes that i love.  friday’s experiments with salt print didn’t produce much worth noting.  and saturday’s experiments with van dyke brown just started out rather dreadful.  the prints were comingContinue reading “Potassium Dichromate and Other Influencers”

Not For What Should Be

a mix of new and old.  shot with my shen hao 4×5 field camera and accidentally opened for editing in Nik Software’s Snapseed desktop app.  i usually work my photos in Photoshop, but once i had this image opened in Snapseed, i just decided to roll with it and see what happened.  and i likedContinue reading “Not For What Should Be”

Fomapan 400 in Caffenol-STD –  Experiments and Results

I wanted to experiment with the recipe for a coffee-based film developer commonly called Caffenol.  Dirk Essl at caffenol.org does an excellent job of keeping track of development times for lots of different films that can be developed with Caffenol.  However, most of the films that have been developed using this unique developer were filmsContinue reading “Fomapan 400 in Caffenol-STD –  Experiments and Results”

Good ’til the Last Drop

inspired by the writing over at caffenol.org, i decided to try my hand a developing some negatives using their coffee infused developer recipe!  i wandered about the grounds of the old Bethlehem Steel plant and set up with my Shen Hao 4×5 and some sheets of Fomapan 400.  i simply metered for 400 speed andContinue reading “Good ’til the Last Drop”