Cuba in Blue
Hand-coated cyanotypes exposed with digital negatives under UV lighting. The images in this series were taken in Cuba in 2016.
Neon Cuba
Playing around with neon lines with photos from my 2016 trip to Cuba. I could see turning some of these into a postcard set. In the meantime, it's fun to just play around with spicing up some old photos. I dig the color photo of the fountain but prefer the grey toned images best overall. Which do you like best?
Chemigrams & Chemograms
Made my first chemograms and chemigrams today. Both are experimental silver-gelatin based photographic techniques. Chemograms are a combination of a photographic exposure and chemical resists, while chemigrams are made only with chemical resists. I used a combination of butter, cooking spray, and honey to achieve the results seen in the following four images. Adv. Darkroom Photography / Fall 2017 Further Learning Chemigram; Wikipedia Chemogram; Wikipedia Lomography; Cameraless Photography: How to Create Chemigrams Photo Tech Mag; Father of the Chemigram: An Interview with Pierre Cordier f/138; An Introduction to the Chemigram Process Alternative Photography; The Chemigram
Laptopograms
One of the things I enjoy the most about darkroom photography is the experimentation the process seems to promote. We've made photograms, traditional negative prints with both 35mm film, and 120 mm film shot with a Holga, and we recently experimented with toning prints. Now I'm excited to be playing with a technique I discovered from Kristine Thompson while attending the Society for Photographic Education South Central conference in Waco, Texas last month. Kristine creates photograms by placing light-sensitive paper on the screen of her laptop and then developing it to reveal the image. It sounds easy but it's kind [...]
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I was going to wait till tonight to work in the darkroom again but decided to go work last night after getting the notice that the university would be closed today and tomorrow. I lost track of time and spent about five hours in the lab making 27 new photograms. A few were tests to see what kind of results different materials would produce. I discovered that I love the texture Vaseline adds. Baby powder, tea, and water droplets also create interesting effects. Here's one of my favorite images from tonight. It's a 5 x 8" photogram of a wrapper. The [...]
