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EMULSION LIFT OF DARKROOM PRINT
DARKROOM PRINT OF EXPIRED ORWO FILM (1975)
USED THE POLAROID DUPLICATOR TO PHOTOGRAPH THE DARKROOM PRINT AND THEN CREATED AN EMULSION LIFT USING IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT INTANT FILM
ORIGINAL IMAGE OF DARKROOM PRINT HERE www.flickr.com/photos/eva-flaskas/8544955646/in/album-721...
Gaslight emulsion on watercolour paper.
Distilled water, gelatin, potassium chloride, silver nitrate, wetting agent, vodka
1st day of spring and we have a few crocuses in our garden.
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Whoo Hooo!
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Texture is courtesy of Lenabem & the emulsion texture can be found here:
Emulsion paint and markers on found cardboard, 145cm x 140 cm,Greece, 2014.
Full post on the blog:
enitaimenipleis.blogspot.gr/2014/08/ceci-nest-pas-graffit...
Silver gelatin printing out emulsion on watercolour paper.
Adding extra silver to a gaslight emulsion lets it print out in the same way as salt prints or cyanotypes do.
The font is not as Kodak have used, as this personal Dream Project is not anything official of Kodak apart from the promotional case, the cute case as I think of it, being manufactured for Kodak is the beginning and an end of Kodak involvement here. The cute case is a great inspiration that has lead me to my digital dream being projected upon Cibachrome panels in my illusion of emulsion. This has been a Pipe Dream that is longing for the past and for potential that has passed. Ektachrome continues, the other side of the aforementioned promotional cute case is red and yellow advertisement of the discontinued Kodachrome. Cibachrome is still emerging from old sheets and fresh made chemical processes I believe, but I only have memories to hand in what sometimes are slide show like interactions within my make believe visionary castles of imagination.
These Pipe Dreams on past photographic productions now unavailable has me making my memories of them wishing to invoke René Magritte and La Trahison des images, The Treachery of Images, which is often evoked with Ceci n'est pas une pipe translated as This is not a pipe. The painted representation of the pipe from 1929 cannot be stuffed said Magritte and it certainly cannot perform as does the pipe it resembles. With such dreams of images and reality, with lost production processes and notions that the Camera Never Lies I have my dreams some real, others surreal, a few definitely beyond reality and further those resting in imagination and with vision of a remembrance towards a former reality accomplished now here held in pixels that have been embraced in loving edits.
The snappy title belies the convoluted memory to digital process from a 4x5 SINAR set up out of Switzerland following formulas from there that fill my photographic contemplations. Images of images and images to last against the ravages of time are bound in my mind with Kodachrome, Cibachrome and the varying P 3 / P 3X / P 30P / P 30 P 3.5 processes. In reflection and rumination through editing I have lost and found time, thought of reality and enjoyed illusion, fantasy and fiction. This is one picture brightly produced in varying considerations, cogitations and cognations created these digital inklings that presume to be potential for a project.
I would like to add, this as much I do is Production Incarnate Preinduction Illustrate. A progress in work Inspiration for the next creation.
As the above is my usual text slide to conclude the films I release on YouTube and Flickr I will add this below so as not to use the regular ending. I feel completely engaged and absolutely ready for each next link and flow in the chain and the continuation that interlock and mind and body shock me out of, into and all around these moments. The personal interaction here in picture taking and editing has taken me to moments in history and projected me to places far beyond mystery.
© PHH Sykes 2025
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I should list a set of links in this space that could take you to that past factual information of the photographic processes here mentioned and pondered upon, but the journey awaits you whether you are new, or well along the ways of these defunct and still adored pictorial wonders that fuel current projects and enlighten dreams with fantastic rendition and fabulous colour.
Impossible Instant Lab emulsion lift workshop at the clevelandprintroom.com today. On watercolor paper.
Gaslight emulsion on watercolour paper.
Distilled water, gelatin, potassium chloride, silver nitrate, wetting agent, vodka
Emulsion of nasturtium petals, placed under a digital photo transparency and exposed to the sun for 6 days in Oct. 2021.
Emulsion of nasturtium petals, orange daisy, and yellow loosestrife, placed under a digital photo transparency and exposed to the sun for 2 days in Oct 2021.
Scan from darkroom print.
Leica M6ttl, 90 mm Summicron.
Ilford Delta 100 in DDX.
Printed on Foma liquid emulsion and toned I thioria/sepia
This is a Polaroid emulsion lift. The original photo was taken with a Agfa Viking and expired and cross processed Agfa Portrait 160. Then, I used a Daylab to transfer the image to Polaroid Type 669. The transfer is on thick card stock that I have painted with gouache. The dimensions for the paper are approx. 4.75" x 6.75". Signed and dated on the back.
This is available in my Etsy (link on my profile). Although I am still running my 50% off sale in my Etsy to help out with Suttree's ongoing vet bills, this is not eligible.
Bromoil on liquid emulsion.
Scan from darkroom print,
Gandolfi, 4x5 back.
Fomapan 200 @ 100 in Fomadon Excel.
Two soft boxses on the background and one on the model, camera left.
Posten this picture some days ago, printed on liquid emulsion.
Today I post the final results, the photo as an Bromoil.
Leica M6 and probably 50 mm elmar. Tri-X.
Don’t have a scanner that is big enough for this size, so a snap with the IPhone must do. But to give you the exact right colors end impression is hard.
Finally got around to spending some time working out the image corrections needed for printing on Polaroid B&W iType on the Polaroid Lab Printer.
Then spent some more time getting the lift process "perfected". The B&W film has a milky coating (which doesn't appear to come off) on what would be the top side which reduces contrast of the lifts. I "fixed" this by flipping my images before printing and mounting the lifts milky side down.
Very fresh prints and very hot water make the separation of Polaroid layers quite simple.
Scanned liquid emulsion print.
Mamiya 645 ProTL w/ M-S 45 mm/f4 macro. Early morning of April 22, 2023.
Fomapan 200 @ iso 100, dev. in Rodinal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Foma's liquid emulsion with hardener on Lokta paper 30x40 cm (handmade Nepalese paper, see link below if you want to know more). The paper is thin (65 gsm) so I mounted it on a FB paper to make it sturdier for the wet process. This first experiment with no pre-treatment of the paper shows how much impurities there are. I'm surprised that it became an image at all.
The halo and vignetting came as an unintended bonus :-)
Developed in Moersch SE2 1+20, fixed in Adofix PII (hardening) and toned in Se 1+9, 60 sec.
Lokta paper is handmade paper from Nepal.
Nepali kagaj or Nepali paper, is a wildcrafted, handmade artisan paper indigenous to Nepal. It is made from the bark of two of the species of the shrub Daphne.
Found this in an artist webshop in Sweden.
Emulsion of pansy petals then St. John's wort, placed under a digital photo transparency and exposed to the sun for 7 days in Aug. 2021.
This is what you get when you shine a light on to a mixture of water and cooking oil on the surface of a blank CD. Just by moving your hand in front of the light you can change shapes and colors. Fun stuff to play with.
I have an album of these images if you en joy abstract color and shapes. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157625787156195
104. - Temporo-Maxillary Articulation. External View.
Original photograph taken with a Polaroid SX-70 Alpha1 SE using Impossible Project Color SX70 instant film.
Emulsion transfer onto heavyweight matt laser print of a scan from Gray's Anatomy 1st edition reprint.
Polaroid Week | Spring 2016 | Day 5 | 1/2
From the garden
Polaroid Week: Day 2 - 1
Mixed emulsion lift from Polaroid Go film and Polaroid B&W I-type film with dried stem and leaves
It's the first time I have done an emulsion lift with more than one exposure, but it was a satisfactory experience.
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Ambrotip en vidre transparent, de format 13x18cm, realitzat amb una càmera Konrad G. Seitz fabricada cap al 1895; objectiu Konrad Seitz Universal Aplanat f8; col·lodió Quinn's Quick Clear de fabricació casolana.
Les plaques de col·lodió es realitzen al moment, cobrint una placa de vidre o planxa metal·lica negra amb col·lodió i sals de iode i/o brom, sensibilitzat amb nitrat de plata. Aleshores s'ha de fer la fotografia i revelar-la en uns 5 minuts, abans no s'assequi la emulsió. És un dels processos fotogràfics més antics del món, inventat el 1851, i que dominà fins el 1880. Però ara ha resorgit, ja que les imatges, molt treballades, que dona són úniques, màgiques i i irrepetibles.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col%C2%B7lodi%C3%B3_humit
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This is a 13x18cm clear glass ambrotype, made with a Konrad G. Seitz tailboard camera, made in Nuremberg c.1895; Konrad Seitz Universal Aplanat f8 lens; Quinn's Quick Clear collodion, made by me.
The collodion plates are made covering a glass plate or black metal plate with collodion and salts of iodine and / or bromine, sensitized with silver nitrate. Then you have to take the photo and reveal it in about 5 minutes, before the emulsion dries. It is one of the oldest photographic processes in the World, invented in 1851, and which dominated photography until 1880. But now it has resurfaced, as the images, very elaborate to create, that it gives are unique, razor sharp, magical and unrepeatable.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collodion_process
intrepidcamera.co.uk/blog/rikard-osterlund-guide-to-wet-p...
A little change of pace from my usual still life subjects. This is what comes from putting oil on water on a shiny blank CD and then shining a light on it. It's fun stuff to play with.
I have an album of these images if you en joy abstract color and shapes. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157625787156195