This might be the most complete tutorial I’ve come across on developing black and white film with coffee (yes, it really works!). In addition to the recipe, it’s got pictures of every step, including the final results.
Check it out at Photo Utopia!
Katie Cooke has posted two more amazing roundups of photograms—prints made by placing objects directly on photo paper or film, without a camera or lens—at her Slowlight Blog.
Roundup three: Chemigrams & luminograms, chemistry & light
Roundup four: Photograms: botanics, bugs, and bodies
See first roundup list for more links and resources.
Look what happened when Jason Greenberg Motamedi tried making a Daguerreotype on silvered glass! He says:
I made a few marginally successful Becquerel plates last year using silvered glass, however something about the traditional method (perhaps the heat of the Mercury?) caused much of the silver to flake off in the fixer.
Yes! Beautiful! Long string of […]
Continue reading...This is what happens when you tilt not the whole lens, but one element of one. I used an 1800s Darlot brass lens with three elements (probably meant to cover half plate as it vignettes on 4×5) with the middle one tilted. On this type of lens it’s common, at least among the ones I […]
Continue reading...Check out Sean Rohde’s outstanding, example-laden tutorial on getting images from the "goop"/negative side of Polaroid peel-apart film. He’s made some great photos with them, too, have a look!
See also: the Polaroid Goop group on Flickr
See what happens when alspix—the man who brought us the now-legendary matchbox pinhole camera—processes film in year-old, over-used C-41 colour negative chemistry from a DIY kit. The results are surprising!
Read about it at Alspix Stuff.
He used this Nova C-41 kit, which is available in the UK. For those in the US, check out the […]
Two new step-by-step how-tos have been posted at Alternative Photography:
An introduction to Polaroid 600 and image film manipulations
Indirect Low Light Polaroid 600 Photograms
Both were written by Jenelle Norris, whose work you can see at her web site and her gallery at AlternativePhotography.com.
waking_dream made this masked double exposure in two stages: one was made with a round piece of tape blocking the center of the lens, while the other was made holding a card with a circle cut out in front of the lens. Expose the center and then everything except the center. Very cool!
For exposing the […]
I think the camera toss phenomenon, started by Ryan Gallagher (also see his Flickr stream), is really cool. The idea is that you set your camera for a relatively long exposure in a dark place with a nifty arrangement of lights, and throw the camera in the air while the shutter is open. The results […]
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