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WPG 8x8 Square Format
Our local Wakering Photography Group (WPG) challenge was any subject presented in an square 8"x8" format.
I captured this tree at sunset but I felt it was a little underwhelming....so I decided to process and print it as a negative as it was to be displayed in a black mount. I got some advice from Dave, a fellow group member, how to convert/revert the image in Lightroom, and was pleased with the result!!
It wasn't a favourite with group but was against some excellent square images.
Calotype negative, 8x10. Shot on the Wehman Field Camera with elements from old broken Kodak lens from a folding camera.
6 minute exposure in full sun, on a dried calotype negative, developed in gallic acid and aceto-nitrate of silver.
It's funny how I was saying in yesterdays description that I had gotten out of a depressed phase but today I feel like a soggy towel. I didn't feel much motivation to do a photo today but I am really glad I did.
It was incredibly windy but thankfully that worked well with the shot! The only props I needed were leaves that have been blown to the sides of the road.
No cars actually passed through here the whole time I was taking photos and just as I got up to leave a car came through and it was a magical moment.
This photo was scanned in with my Nikon D3000 with 18-55mm kit lens using my scanners light source for negatives. After experimenting for ages I have finally been able to get decent colour from my negatives if I had a macro lens the image would also be a lot sharper but ill keep going Pretty good for an entry level DSLR.
Canon Ae-1
Kodak Colourplus 200
50mm 1.8
Chand Baori step well, Abhaneri, India
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I know I likely have better things to do than take photos of what's on my tv screen. However, there was a program on about a photographer who found these old negatives and decided to process them himself. This is one that he's processing in his darkroom which intrigued me.
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
“Buttercups and daisies,
Oh, the pretty flowers;
Coming ere the Springtime,
To tell of sunny hours.” - Mary Howitt
“I'm called Little Buttercup - dear Little Buttercup,
Though I could never tell why.” -William S. Gilbert
The pattern was empty, but the tower was in the wrong place.....
Nathan K. Hammond in the Ghost Writer Airshows Super Chipmunk
Negative scan from my archives, Paris, 1962
More "Paris in the 60s" here: www.flickr.com/photos/amarcord108/sets/72157625555243112/...