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Plant on the lookout
Much nicer picture, so this gets less text and more hashtags. Polaroid 230 automatic, shot on paper.
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My kitchen windows, circa 1862
This one is “properly” exposed in the sense that there’s both highlight and shadow detail, sort of – but the range is so small, it looks too dark and too bright at the same time. Probably better to pick a side and let the highlights blow out, or the shadows go black, respectively. Who wants…
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Plant and friend, as an actual real paper positive.
This was shot directly on paper in a Polaroid 230 and then reversed. The reversal process is actually super simple – developer, citric acid, hydrogen peroxide until it’s completely white, turn the lights on, developer again. I’ll have to order things in the right concentration, this took like an hour for me. But it works,…
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Attempt at the most hipster mirror selfie possible
Attempt at the most hipster mirror selfie possible. Is it somehow all out of focus or is it just motion blur? Who knows! The Polaroid does have a rangefinder but I don’t think the paper I use is at the same plane as the original film would be, so that’s a bit useless. Also it’s…
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Plant.
Digital positive of a paper negative shot with an old Polaroid. Essentially, I just stuffed darkroom photo paper into a Polaroid Land Camera, and …yeah that works really well. Exposure time 3 seconds, at F8.8, but I don’t have a light meter so that’s completely useless information. There’s apparently ways to reverse the print chemically,…
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I was at Mauerpark
I was at Mauerpark and @junolee.mp3 played the Pixies and The Cure and it was very nice.
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Offcuts of the series
Mistakes have been made. The nice thing about cyanotype is that whatever happens, it’s still this really nice blue. Can’t go wrong with blue. Blue mind, blue notes, blue notes.
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More art!
This one turned out much better, though I forgot to time the exposure. Maybe that’s the secret, forgetting things.
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every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough
all the things
by content
- art – cyanotypes, linocut, drypoint and things
- photography, mostly on film
- stuff with myself in it
- short reviews of things
- obsolete things like my trabant, or my typewriter
by film size
by camera model
- 1890s wooden tailboard camera
- generic 1920s 9×12
- 1920 No. 1A Autographic Kodak Special
- 1930s Zeiss Ikon Box-Tengor 54/2
- 1932 Rolleiflex “Old Standard”
- 1930s Plaubel Makina II
- 1930s Welta Weltini and Welti
- 1930s Kochmann Reflex-Korelle
- 1949 Mimosa II
- 1950s Mycro III A
- 1953 Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa
- 1955 Carl Zeiss Jena Werra
- 1962 Ihagee Exa “0”
- 1960s Ihagee Exakta Varex
- 1963 Voigtländer Vito CD
- 1967 Polaroid Automatic 230 Land Camera
- 1976 Ricoh Auto-Half E2
- 1980s Panasonic Newvicon Video Camera
- 1999 Sony Mavica FD88
- Pinhole Camera
- Olympus OM-D
- Smartphone
the latest stuff:
