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This is how I spent my Saturday this past weekend. I took a workshop with Scully and Osterman. www.collodion.org/
I made "my" first wet-plate image. But of course, the incredible Mark Osterman took the portrait, and while I poured the plate and developed it and so on, the fantastic France Scully Osterman was right there helping to make sure I didn't screw it all up. Both of them were phenomenal. So I can't claim this completely as my own because I had fantastic help all along the way. I highly recommend taking a workshop from them if you have any interest in this process. It was a day to remember and well worth the time. :)
I'm almost ashamed to post this, but for those who haven't quite decided what negative painting is...well, this is it. I must have been practicing that when this was done years ago. Notice that all shapes are painted by painting around them...not by putting color to form the inside of the shape. This is about as negatively painted as you can get, showing that too much of any method in a painting is just that...too much!!
I was just testing a lens and took a few pictures of this Brownie 8mm movie camera manual. I spliced two images together, played around with saturation and color temp, and then color reversed it.
Day 258 - I'm still in a bit of a photo funk. 365 days is a long time! Hats off to those who do it year after year!
Day 56 - "Negative space". I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at all worried about coming out in a heinous rash with the $2 shop face paint.
Negative Stacking
I used to do quite a bit of negative stacking in the enlarger in the 90s when I had my own darkroom and an enlarger that would take a 4X5 negative. I was gifted with an A4 LED light tablet for my birthday and decided to try a bit of negative stacking to see if I could reprise that technique in my repertoire.
The first batch of my experiments using darkroom enlarging (silver) paper negatives instead of shooting on film.
"If I make dark my countenance,
I shut my life from happier chance."
Lord Tennyson
taken @ Cupcake
textures: lesbrumes flickr
© Jeff R. Clow
How I "developed" this:
1) Shot a leaf with red and green highlights floating on water
2) Use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software to convert the color spectrum using a "Deep Negative" preset I downloaded from the web
3) Used Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 software to recover some of the details through levels adjustments
The purists probably won't like it, but I thought it blurred the distinction between photography and art.
If you have the time, I hope you'll view this at the larger size linked below:
This is my entry for this week's DPS Assignment: Negative Space. I was fortunate enough to ues a friend's Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM for this photo. Wow it is qute a lens. However it was getting quite dark by the time I had a chance to play with it, hence the 20 second exposure.
104 day exposure, Sept 19th - January 1st, facing southeast. 5x7 paper negative solargraph in seltzer can pinhole camera.
See where this picture was taken. [?]
See more cherry blossoms here
You can see this also here: www.ipernity.com/doc/manganite/883560
EI-TLO Airbus A320-232 [0758] (Novair) Athens-Hellinikon~SX 04/04/1998. Broken up Marana AZ~N @ 2013 whilst registered N638AC.
Leica M2
Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4 II
Rollei Superpan 200
Rollei Supergrain 1+12
8 min 20°C
Scan from negative film
Seems like a little light leak ... will have to test this beast.
Shot with an Eastman View Camera No. 2, Manufactured by Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y., U.S.A. #16924
8x10 View Camera + Schneider-Kreuznach G-Claron 210mm F9.0 Lens
8x10 Negative Scan
Arista EDU 100 @ 25 ISO + D76 1:1 @ 8 mins
" I learned working with the negatives can make for better pictures.."
HYFR - Drake
Strobist Info:
Camera Settings - Nikon D3s with Nikkor 85mm f/1.4g lens, Aperture f/8, Shutter Speed 125, ISO 100
Main Light - AlienBee 1600 at 1/8 power shot through 47 inch octobox with grid camera left
Strobes triggered remotely using PocketWizard MiniTT1 transmitter and FlextTT5
The snow was like a giant sheet of photosensitive material. I'm not sure I'm finished with this. I have some others to experiment with.
I purchased a large box of b&w negatives at an estate sale. The sale was for the possessions of a photographer who worked for the railroad. The negatives are amazing and will post more ;)
The negs span from a trip through war torn europe during WWII , the photographer was apparently serving during the war to trips to NY Chicago and many cities in the US
Some negs are rough and some are in great shape