Coffee with Christine

Posted on June 21, 2021 Posted in Caffenol, Coffee with friendsTagged Caffenol, Crown Graphic, Harman Direct Positive, Portrait2 Comments

Last year, I offered a coffee portrait session for Broad Street Ministry‘s online fundraising auction. Christine won the auction, and this weekend we managed to schedule the session. I love the results. They have a very 1930s look. Also, some really good longe exposure “mistakes”.

Something about the earring makes me think Man Ray

The first hurdle

Posted on May 6, 2021 Posted in Lith Prints, photo walk, toy camerasTagged Agfa Brovira, Crown Graphic, Diana, Grain, lith print, Philadelphia, photo walkLeave a comment

Prints from shots taken at FDR Park.

I love disaster

Posted on April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 Posted in Lith Prints, UncategorizedTagged Agfa Brovira, Arista Ortho Litho, bergger print film, Crown Graphic, PhiladelphiaLeave a comment

Shamokin Redux

Posted on April 15, 2021 Posted in Lith Prints, Small townTagged Agfa Brovira, Arista Ortho Litho, Central PA, Crown Graphic, lith printLeave a comment

Please bear with me as I work through a year’s backlog of negatives.

Your dreams

Posted on April 1, 2021 Posted in Lith PrintsTagged Agfa Brovira, Arista Ortho Litho, bergger print film, Central PA, Crown Graphic, lith print, paxinos paLeave a comment

Last summer I acquired a bunch, and I mean A BUNCH, of old Agfa Brovira paper. I was hoping to use it for lith processing. Last night I finally got in the darkroom and was not disappointed.

You stop

Posted on March 30, 2021 Posted in cyanotypeTagged Arista Ortho Litho, bergger print film, Central PA, Crown Graphic, cyanotype, Philadelphia, speed graphic, tea-toned2 Comments

This week I’m going into the darkroom for the first time in a year. As much as I am looking forward to printing silver gelatin, I’m glad I spent the time off doing cyanotypes.

We’re sensitive. Blue sensitive.

Posted on March 21, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Crown Graphic, HC-110, PhiladelphiaLeave a comment

Bergger has started selling Print Film, a blue sensitivee sheet film for doing duplication work in the darkroom AND, of course, as an alternate camera film. I bought a pack of 4X5 sheets as soon as I learned about.

I took the Graflex Crown Graphic down to FDR Park this weekend for a test run.

This is my favorite time of year to shoot vegetation

I developed these in a tray for 4 minutes using HC110 dilution A at room temperature, which I conveniently forgot to measure. The data sheet on this says to use any developer with the time of development affecting the amount of contrast. I went for the low-end of the time suggestions.

Sing your hearts away

Posted on January 12, 2021 Posted in cyanotype, StuffTagged Arista Ortho Litho, Crown Graphic, cyanotype, flowers, Post-apocalypse, still life, toningLeave a comment

I needed a break from all this uptight pushing and shoving. So I brewed some tea.

Drift until you brutalize

Posted on September 30, 2020 Posted in cyanotypeTagged Arista Ortho Litho, coffee-toned, Crown Graphic, cyanotype2 Comments

More experimentation with cyanotypes and toning in coffee. These are all old negatives.

Blues in my bread

Posted on September 18, 2020 Posted in cyanotypeTagged Crown Graphic, cyanotype, flowers, still life, toning2 Comments

I haven’t worked much with cyanotypes because I don’t really care for blue prints. But with Covid keeping me out of the darkroom and all the ingredients sitting in my studio, it made sense to try.

A little research made it clear that toning gave me more options than just blue. Here are the results so far. look for more as I work through the process.

The blue

The black: coffee

The gold: tea

Ed Keer

Tag: Crown Graphic