Hello from Califronia
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 11:13 pm
Hi All,
I'm here! Hoping that we'll get an influx from the few active members still over at the f295 forum, which will be closing down.
I guess my photo activity falls into several broad categories:
* I shoot film and make traditional darkroom prints.
* I do a lot of pinhole, all on paper negatives or on instant film. I've never made a pinhole image on film. I scan and make contact prints of these in various ways. In fact I took two pinhole paper negative images today, with my favorite two pinhole cameras which are simple coffee cans.
* I also like to make paper negatives using lensed cameras.
* I'm very interested in making calotypes and salt prints from them. I hope 2016 will be a leap forward in that area. I recently got a nice 7x11 camera that I'm hoping to use for this.
* I do some solargraphy, all with simple tin can pinhole cameras.
The past month or so I've been busy trying to figure out if I can make oil pigment prints using a non-toxic alternative sensitizer instead of bichromate. I've been spending a lot of time on it, still not sure how viable it is, but I'm having fun trying to make it work. They are inked like bromoil prints, and the two I inked today were dismal failures, but there have been some that were "almost" good along the way.
Hello and Happy New Year to the Group!
Ned
I'm here! Hoping that we'll get an influx from the few active members still over at the f295 forum, which will be closing down.
I guess my photo activity falls into several broad categories:
* I shoot film and make traditional darkroom prints.
* I do a lot of pinhole, all on paper negatives or on instant film. I've never made a pinhole image on film. I scan and make contact prints of these in various ways. In fact I took two pinhole paper negative images today, with my favorite two pinhole cameras which are simple coffee cans.
* I also like to make paper negatives using lensed cameras.
* I'm very interested in making calotypes and salt prints from them. I hope 2016 will be a leap forward in that area. I recently got a nice 7x11 camera that I'm hoping to use for this.
* I do some solargraphy, all with simple tin can pinhole cameras.
The past month or so I've been busy trying to figure out if I can make oil pigment prints using a non-toxic alternative sensitizer instead of bichromate. I've been spending a lot of time on it, still not sure how viable it is, but I'm having fun trying to make it work. They are inked like bromoil prints, and the two I inked today were dismal failures, but there have been some that were "almost" good along the way.
Hello and Happy New Year to the Group!
Ned