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Discovered last year that closeups of melting snow when converted to b+w look almost metallic. Couple that with some water drops from the meltwater and this is the result.
Sounds a simple formula but I
spent a good hour last night trying to time my shutter finger with the drip of the melt-water! Quickly melting ice doesn't stay still either (I brought it inside to shoot it) so focus drifts away through time.
Used flash to get the exposure fast enough for the water drop and used Silver Efex Pro with a bit of selenium toning to finish off the image.
I quite like the result. Hope you like it too.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Scanned 2nd pass selenium-gold toned IR lith print, Jan 5, 2018.
Rolleiflex T with Tessar 75mm/f3.5, Rollei Infrarot filter. Shot in May 27, 2017.
Rollei IR 400 in Tetenal Ultrafin Liquid 1+19, 6,5 min.
Fomatone MG 132 (24x30cm)
1st pass: Paterson Acugrade FX-31.
Bleached in Moersch Copper Bleach for Lith Redevelopment 1+2 with preservation of the deepest shadows (not much of those in this one...)
2nd pass: Moersch Easy Lith 3A+3B+1000H2O (40°C) followed by a 2,5 min long hot (45°C) waterbath to bring out the highlights.
Toned 10 min in Selenium (1+12), followed by 3 min in Thiourea-Gold.
PS borders.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Minolta X-700, 58mm
Maco Eagle film, f5.6 1/125 with circular polarizer.
Lith print on Ektalure G with selenium toning.
Pu'u Loa area of Volcano Park, Hawai'i.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
One week solargraphy
pinhole tin can + 13x18cm RC paper + Kodak x-tol (1+10, 15° ) + Selenium bath for a little intensification
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Rolleiflex sl 66, delta 400, D76 1+1
Ilford multigrade fb classic 1k 24x30cm/ 20x20cm
PQ universal
stop bath water
Alkaline Fixer
Selenium toner 1+24 2min.
Sepia toner 2min.
I would like to prepare a photo exhibition.
If you would like to help me with this project, you can write to me.
The silver print is looking for a new home. ;-)
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
I recently began reprinting my Series of Dreams...
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
$20 buy. Came with it's leather case and some typical accessories (cheap folding flash bracket, cable release, etc.). Works perfectly. Selenium cell meter is spot on. Shares the same shutter as the Kodak Retina Reflex series of cameras. Very familiar to me. Not a SLR, but a LSR (Leaf Shutter Reflex). An amazing amount of gears and springs inside needed to coordinate everything. Just winding it is almost musical. But for some small machining, this camera will take Kodak Retina Reflex lenses. A big bonus for me as I have a few - one I could sacrifice for the cause.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Stickers on a downpipe
Nikon F6, 55mm Makro, Kodak TriX in Moersch EFD, Lithprint auf Fomatone MG 131; Moersch SE5 (first tray 50 A , 50 B 1000 H2O, 40 D; second tray 5 Lith Omega 500 H2O), partially bleached, parially selenium and gold toned
Iceland
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Hasselblad 501 C/M with Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in Pyrocat-HD
Printed on Foma 542 II
Developed in Catechol/Sepia
Toned in Selenium / MT3
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Scanned LF lith print.
Graflex Crown Graphic (1952) w/ Wollensak Optar 135 mm/f4.7.
Kodak Tmax 100 4x5" in Rodinal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Cropped neg printed on Fomatone MG 133, underdeveloped in Moersch SE5 and toned for a long time in Selenium (1+9).
PS borders.
To the best of my recollection I didn't do anything else but leaving this underdeveloped and fixed lith print in the Se toner for a long time. The solarization effect came as a surprise.
Perhaps an apt salmon pink colour?
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
iPhone snapshot of an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
A series about square formats with the horizon exactly in the middle.
There's a man standing on those posts...
Underexposing the sky while slightly over-exposing the water.
Technical info:
10 stops ND filter
f/22
ISO100
15mm
79s (1min20s) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 2.0
PS CS3 - Silver Efex Pro - Red filter - Selenium toning
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Produced for the Periodic Table of Printmaking project by the Gregory half of spoonergregory.
Selenium is a dense purplish-grey nonmetal semiconductor first discovered in 1817 by Jöns Jakob Berzelius. Its name derives from the Greek word selene which means "Moon".
One of the element's most well-known uses is in the lightmeters of old cameras. These rely on the fact that Selenium's ability to conduct electricity is related to the amount of light present. The distinctive "honeycomb" pattern of selenium meters can be seen on many old cameras from the 50s and 60s. Unfortunately today many selenium meters no longer work accurately. However, and more importantly, they still look very, very cool. I love old cameras, and so came up with this design for my woodcut, of an old selenium-fitted rangefinder sucking up the light.
For more information on how the print was put together, see this photo: flickr.com/photos/spoonergregory/468303349/
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.