Old Looking Photos Using Old Looking Camera:

12 years 8 months ago - 12 years 8 months ago #128007 by MLKstudios
Shooting old style:

www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/au...d&utm_medium=twitter

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The technique he uses is to make a paper negative, and then take another picture of it. Often they have all the chemicals inside the camera. The camera is also the darkroom.

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12 years 8 months ago #128570 by icepics
How interesting. The portraits seem to capture a slice of life in another place. Interesting that along with the developments in digital technology (or maybe in spite of them), techniques from other eras are being used so much. I wonder if it's a reaction to digital, the going back to more hands-on techniques. The more I looked into it the more I've found of workshops and galleries and exhibits of everything from Van Dyke prints and tintypes to sun prints and pinhole photos.

Sharon
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12 years 8 months ago - 12 years 8 months ago #128578 by MLKstudios
In the art world there is a comeback (or maybe a hold-on) to old printing techniques. I plan on attending a workshop in Oct. by Bostick & Sullivan (who sell "alternative" processes).

These techniques really stand out in our digital world.

www.bostick-sullivan.com/

The two technologies can also be combined. In the olden days we used big cameras (I use an 8"x10" Sinar to make 8"x10" prints). Now you can take a digital original and enlarge it onto transparent material to make a large neg that you can use for contact printing (what most older styles require) and make prints larger than 8"x10".

If you live in CO or NM, the sun has lots of UV to print with. In other areas you may need an artificial UV light to produce a print with. And, it's not just art, it's lots of fun too!

Matthew :)

Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
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"Every artist, was once an amateur"

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12 years 8 months ago #128649 by Karl Wertanen
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12 years 8 months ago #128650 by icepics
I'm not sure how recently the alt. processes were revived or if they've always been around, I hadn't run across it til recently and haven't seen it in my area. (Things seem to start on one coast or the other, takes awhile for it to get to us in the middle).

I'd run across Bostick & Sullivan briefly then you mentioned them on another thread so I was looking at their site not long ago. What workshop are you taking? - probably will be interesting. I noticed they have a tintype kit w/a camera - and it happens to be a camera I have, just picked it up in a local antique shop.

I've seen something about digital negs, will have to try that sometime. I started doing some lumen prints, get some great colors w/old papers like Velox and Azo. Scanned in a few that were on paper about 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 " and blew them up to 8x10s, they turned out kind of cool.

Olden days?? LOL - not that old! I grew up in the days of flashcubes and b&w TV.

Sharon
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12 years 8 months ago - 12 years 8 months ago #128653 by MLKstudios
They've been around longer than I have. Their popularity has waxed and waned over the years.

The workshop I plan on attending:

APIS 2011
Alternative Photographic International Symposium

October 6-8, 2011

Santa Fe Community College: The Center for Photographic History and Technology, Bostick & Sullivan are proud to co-sponsor this event.

APIS is a biennial event and this year we are in partnership with the Santa Fe Community College. There is a full program of internationally recognized speakers on various aspects of traditional photographic processes and their place in history.

This will be the 8th APIS held in the United States.

Register at: www.bostick-sullivan.com/cart/cart.php

The speakers include:

France Scully Osterman: Authority on 19th century photography.
Dusan Stulik PhD: Senior Scientist Getty Conservation Institute.
Kate Ware: Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art and was formerly the curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and before that, assistant curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

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B&S sells everything you need to do alternative printing. No enlarging equipment needed, so you don't have to build a darkroom. Just need some good (high UV) light to print with.

And a sign for the neighbors -- WARNING! Caustic Materials Inside. Enter With Caution.

:)

Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"

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