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Eight days solargraphy.
It is very windy ( mistral ) in these days.
Pinhole tin can + 5"x7" RC paper + Kodak Xtol (1+4, 18°C ) + Selenium bath
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
Part II of the Long Exposure series on Powerstations.
This is a series inspired by the great work of famous B&W photographer Michael Kenna
If you want to see a great collection of B&W tributes to famous photographers then you should really check the Monochromatic Visions in the likeness of thread . Really a great recommendation for some fantastic tributes by other talented Flickr artists.
Shot taken at the nuclear powerstation in De Doel in the Antwerp area in Belgium.
Technical info:
10 stops ND filter
Polarization Filter - 2 stops
f/25
ISO100
150s (2min30s) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 2.0
PS CS3 - Silver Efex Pro - Orange Filter - Selenium toning
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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.
Film: Ilford FP4+, developed in R09 1:25 for 9:00 minutes.
Camera: Yasica-Mat with Lumaxar 3.5/80mm lens.
Darkroom print on Fomabrom 112, toned in selenium 1+19 for a few minutes, followed bt Foma sepia (bleach 20 sec).
Somehow this print reminds me of the fabulous images of native Americans, made by Mr. Curtis. It must be the toning.
Camera: Shen Hao 5x7
Lens: Fujinon 180mm
Film: Kodak TMY
Developer: Pyrocat-MC
Print: Adox Lupex Silver Chloride
Toner: Selenium
Zeiss Ikon IKOPHOT Rapid, a match needle selenium light meter in a leather case with a ornate chain. This thingy is from the 1950’s, but I found it at a flea market a couple of years ago. The seller had no idea what it was, she told me it belonged in a set with a camera which had been sold separately. So we gathered it had something to do with photography and as I found it to look truly curious I bought it for a couple of dollars. Googling it later revealed this in fact is a light meter.
About my Corner of Curiosities: A few years ago I bought a little box with drawers, thinking I would collect a few special bits and pieces in there. I parked this little set on top of my IKEA chest of six drawers which stands in a corner of my apartment. In time, I added more small shelfs, drawers and boxes and began to put curious items on display in all the little nooks and crannies. Quirky little things I mostly find on flea markets, but also get off the net. This corner of my home serves as inpiration, and every once in I while I walk up the IKEA dresser, put my elbows on top and rest my chin in my hands while I let my eyes wander through all these curious things. Moments such as these give spark my imagination and spurs my motivation to doodle in my journals. The collection is’nt all that special, as it’s not very easy finding fairly cheap, quirky and curious things, small enough to fit in the corner. My collection is constantly changing, if I find a new collectible, something else has to go or be moved around - as the corner now more or less is full.
Anywho, I thought I’d dedicate a photo album to this Corner of Curiosities, here on Flickr - probably for no other purpose than to tickle my own imagination :)
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.
Zeiss Ikon Contaflex IV with Carl Zeiss 50mm Tessar (both circa. 1958). Arista Premium 100 (rebranded Kodak Plus X). Nikon 9000 scanner.
I love this old camera. It's small (like a rangefinder), light, and takes pretty good pictures. On this day, however, the selenium meter struggled. It overexposed almost every shot.
"Il faut souffler sur quelques lueurs pour faire de la bonne lumière". (René Char, Les Matinaux)
Leica M3, HP5@1600, DDX, MCC110 paper, SE4 moersch, Selenium and lots of burning...
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
Selenium Tone is a preset in Lightroom 2. Following the conversion, I used a high pass filter in Saturation blend, 25%.
Ilford multigrade fb classic 1k 24x30cm/ 20x20cm
PQ universal
stop bath water
Alkaline Fixer
Selenium toner 1+24 2min.
Sepia toner 2min.
Scanned print.
Mamiya 645 ProTL w/ M-S 120 mm f4 Macro (1:1).
Rollei RPX 25 in Rodinal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Printed on Fotokemika Varycon RC, developed in Moersch Eco 4812 and split toned in Thiourea-Selenium.
Se is not only important as a toner in analog photography, it also exhibits light-sensitive properties and thus was used in light meters (surprisingly correct even after >50 years).
From left: Zeiss Ikophot, Walz Corona and Weston Master II.
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
selenium toned liquid emulsion print , handcolored afterwards with hand squeezed plant juice:)
photo digitally photographed, because of my lack of scan:(
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Leica M6, 50mm, Kodak Tx 400
Printed: BERGGER Variable contrast warm glossy, 24x30cm - Selenium toning, 40 min
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
as promised, the contact print version of the previous upload.
- 5x7" expired film, stand developed in 1:100 Rodinal
- Contact printed on Rollei Vintage 111 FB baryta paper, with maximum red dialed in for maximum added contrast
- Toned in 1+19 Selenium and lightly applied Foma Sepia
Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper
Zeiss Ikon Contaflex IV with Carl Zeiss 50mm Tessar (both circa. 1958). Arista Premium 100 (rebranded Kodak Plus X). Nikon 9000 scanner.
I love this old camera. It's small (like a rangefinder), light, and takes pretty good pictures. On this day, however, the selenium meter struggled. It overexposed almost every shot. But still, not bad for a camera that dates from the late 1950's.
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.
Fes, Morocco
Camera: Hasselblad 500 c/m with 2.8/80mm Carl Zeiss Planar
Film: Ilford FP4+
Development: R09 1:25 for 9:00 minutes
Dark Room Print: Fomabrom 111 in WA developer, toned in 1+19 selenium and very briefly in Foma Sepia (bleach 5 seconds).
Second Test Shot. I am so pleased and AMAZED that there are no light leaks and the camera seems to be working like a dreeeeam :)
I don't have the original leather case for the Leica fixed (re-stitched) yet so until that gets back from the leather repair guy I am not going to risk taking it out and about :/ Hence the dull 'Shot'
Film: Rollei Retro 400s
35mm
Camera: 1954 Leica M3 . Model Number : M3 - 706 982
Lens: Ernst Leitz GmbH Wetzlar
Summicron f=5cm 1:2
F4 1/200
Metering: Original Leicameter M with Selenium Cell. Only out by one stop so I'm SO happy I can use it. Metered at F4 and 1/50 for 200iso so I underexposed by two stops to allow for the 400iso film i was using also.
Development:
Ilford HC 7.5 minutes 1+31 B dilution 20c
Ilford Fixer 4.5 mins
Ilford Wetting Agent 1 minute
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
A lumen print, something different for a change!
This is the first ever lumen print I'm truly satisfied with. I've tried the technique a few times before but the results never convinced me, most of my sorry attempts' resulting prints ended up in the bin.
Last evening, I collected some leaves for a different photo idea I had in mind (and still do...); I thought I might try a lumen print of the smallest leaf first as it's so nice and sunny today.
I chose a sheet of the most desolate/deteriorated, entirely unusable (in both normal and lith developers!), bin-worthy pack of photo paper I have around right now: Chemaphot Oriental RP 111. It's a trial pack of 10 sheets in 18x24cm that I once acquired for 1€ on eBay, I've been wanting to toss it out for ages now – thankfully, I haven't yet!
Before fixing, the paper exhibited pleasant tones of strong purple, pink and orange and good contrast, appropriately revealing the leaf's structure. I knew fixing it would annihilate all and any traces of those tones – and I was proven right. Post fixing, the paper not only showed an objectionable lush pink tone but also the contrast was flattened so far that the leaf structure was barely visible anymore.
Massively disappointed, I wanted to toss this sheet just as I had tossed all my prior lumen prints but decided to try toning it in selenium first in an attempt to reduce the ugly pink color. And it worked even better than I had envisioned! Not only did it end up with a much more pleasant tone that doesn't resemble the original pink at all, the selenium toner also did amazing work in revealing "shadow" detail, therefore restoring the leaf structure and also the slight shade behind it.
The selenium toner really saved this print, it made all the difference to it!
A while ago, I read a fellow darkroom printer's statement that even the most desolate and "bin-worthy" photo paper still has some use and life left in it, you just have to know how to "unlock" it – I can only agree.
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There is next to no info to be found about this photo paper or the company behind it. If anyone knows something about either, please share your wisdom! :)
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Printed on Chemaphot Oriental RP 111 RC paper
Exposure time: 3:15h
Toned in selenium (Moersch MT 1 1+10; ca. 1 min.)
Print scanned on a Heidelberg/Linotype-Hell Saphir Ultra II using Vuescan.