Posts Tagged ‘darkroom’
How to do wet plate collodion in the heat?
This vlog is about how to do wet plate process in the heat, at about 30C or 86F. Collodion ferries have done it again and I couldn’t provoke fogging with the heat. Nevertheless I hope this helps to some of you. If it does, perhaps you might decide to support the production of this kind of content by either buying a book of my art or by sending one time donation or by becoming my patreon.
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Darkroom Winch!
In this vlog I’m introducing a darkroom winch. My friend Oto Žan has an MA in engineering and he’s an expert in 3D printing. I’ve described him my wish, to have a darkroom winch that will rock my trays during processing prints. It took few versions of testing and this version of the darkroom winch proved to be the best one. It’s powerful enough to rock a big tray with 10 litres of water inside. More then enough. If it’s too much of the weight the wheel just slips and no harm done to the electric motor. The best part is that you can hack the winch and program it to change its speed and the height of the lift. It has two years of warranty.
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Music: Road Tripzzz – Ofshane
Disclaimer: Jouni Erola / Finland
A New Earth Project / vlog#96
In this episode of the vlog, I’ve spend five days in the middle of the woodlands, on the hill with the name Far Away Hill (Daleč hrib), Kočevski rog in Slovenia.
In the following episodes I’ll talk more about the concept and the aesthetic of the project, but in this vlog, I wanted to be simple, focused on the beauty, no spoken words.
But here are few pointers for better understanding of my art. Inspired by the work of Ana Mendieta, I perform sort of rituals in the nature, using my body and 170 year old process called wet plate collodion photography. Huge inspiration is also the book of Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth.
Thank you for your attention, may the Topshit be with you!
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Collodion test / Which one is the best? / E:78
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In this vlog I’m breaking a myth about contrast in collodion photography. It does not exist. You can make whatever contrast you like with (almost) whatever collodion. Less exposure more development will cause higher contrast and vice versa. In Film photography the same principle is known as pull / push process in the film developing stage.
PS: sorry, I forgot to check my audio levels.
My favourite collodion is Osterman’s standard collodion
4ml of water
3 gr of CdBr2
4 gr of KI
140 ml of alcohol
140 ml ether
220 Collodion 4% USP quality
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Hand coloured wet plate collodion images
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In this vlog I’m showing my ambrotypes commissioned by Alan Hranitelj, an amazing costume designer. The scans of ambrotypes I’ve digitally hand coloured. I hope you like the show.
Camera Mik Kovačič and Anže Grabeljšek.
Editing by Anže Grabeljšek.
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Ultra Large Tintype on eBay!
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HERE is the eBay link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/223583573202
For this tintype I’ve shed some sweat, tears and blood. Mosquitoes are my witness! I have made few beautiful ambrotypes as well, but with this material at this temperature and humidity was just insanely to work with. On the end I’ve cracked all the problems and the result is in front of you. I have shared few insights, I hope it will be of some help to somebody. If you had the same problem, please share your experiences. I know few people who just stopped using that kind of aluminium.
OK, now back to work. I am planning to publish a new vlog tomorrow. Easy one, a photobook reaction vlog.
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Ultra Large Format Tintype as an auction from 0,99$ / vlog 63
In this vlog I’m trying out my new camera Gibellini 16×20″ (40x50cm) and I’m putting the tintype on eBay as an auction, starting from 0,99USD. Follow the link bellow. https://www.ebay.com/itm/223510486851
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Greetings from Llira (the vicinity of Valencia), Spain where I have a masterclass on color carbon printing with Calvin Grier – The Wet Print
Bushcraft Photography / Vlog #60
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In this part of Topshit Photography Vlog, I went to the woodland of Kočevski rog for two days and I did some collodion glass negatives and albumen prints. My main goal was to explore the possibility of staying away from the civilisation and still do my job as a professional photographer. In July 17th – 21st, 2019, I will organise an expedition with rafts down the river Krka and then in the woodland of Kočevski rog. The idea is that we make photography as we go. We don’t need a darkroom to make prints, we can do them in a tent in the middle of nowhere.
Anyway this experience was wonderful and in the future I will do that more often for longer periods of time.
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Film developers Kodak D-76 vs. Rodinal vs. FX-1 vs.Pyrocat HD
After the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, after the Matrix film triology, we finally have the triology on film developers! This vlog features two old developers, Rodinal and Kodak D-76 side by side with a new guns FX-1 and Pyrocat!
Oh, what a fortune that is! Enjoy the vlog and share your opinion on the topic, so others (me included) can learn from it. This research took way too much time and I do not know why I am always surprised on the amount of work that takes to make it through. But I’ve done it. I hope you will like it.
Part one of the saga: (no darkroom): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxqCZ…
Part two (mixing chemistry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKbT…
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Film developers D-76, Rodinal, FX-1 and Pyrocat HD / Vlog 58
In this vlog I’ve mixed film developers Kodak D-76, FX-1, Pyrocat HD and Rodinal. OK, I will mix Rodinal before I will use it.
If you want to skip to exact information, here is the table of contents: D-76 or ID-11 3:30 – 6:00 FX-1 6:10 – 12:30 Pyrocat HD 12:31 – 14:52
I don’t know why I started this series and why I am digging so deeply, but with my vlogs I want to learn too, so I am curious to see how FX-1 and Pyrocat will do in comparison to my usual film developing choice D-76. I am not sure if somebody is interested in that, but if I started it, I will also finish it. Hopefully in my next vlog this will be done.
But of course, I will keep on shooting and I will learn new things.
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