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another colorized ...
this is the dream as i had posted it previously
it is in color for this ...

- John

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for too long i lived my photographic life without color.
in the past couple of years i have been seeing more and more color in
the things i like to photograph. im not sure what is going on
but i am enjoying turning black and white images into color ones.

it started a few months ago ( earlier posts in this bloggy thing have the photographs )
and i just finished another one, and will probably have a few more by the end of it all ..

yeah, ...

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today i processed a handful of glass plates ...
and YES! i used developer instead of hardener.
i am not sure but for some reason film / paper developer
works much better than straight alum hardener ...
and half the plates look OK so far ...

i've gotta mix some more hardening fixer, as much as i hate hardener ...
to keep my emulsion from lifting + frilling from my plate...

the gelatin / emulsion is still damp+tacky or i would make ...

i coated a baker's dozen of 4x5 plates yesterday
this morning i verified the timing of my shutter
then i harvested an ancient dry plate bag-mag purchased
long ago but never used.
i used a flang to pry up the septums and slid 3 plates in ...
i made some exposures and looked forward to seeing the results

i emptied the contents of a 1L container i had developer
and poured the contents into a tray.
i put the timer on 3 mins and put ...

been shooting some of these over the weekend.
it took me a while to get the kinks out of the process

but now it's a piece of cake and about as easy as shooting paper negatives ..

here's a 35mm tintype ...
i just stuck the plate inside a 35mm camera

i've also got a couple of clear glass ambrotype one was taken at the coast
the other one i hand colored with you know what ...

kind of fun

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