Loading Sheet Film Loading Sheet Film Double Darks 4x5. This is a very rough and basic video of showing the steps involved in loading 4x5 sheet film into a double dark film holder. Obviously these steps need to be made in total darkness, regardless of whether you are using black and white or colour film.... Continue reading "Loading Sheet Film Double Darks 4×5"
Contos Spring flows when the local limestone caves have received enough underground water. The spring seeps up out of the beach sand at the southern end of Contos Beach. Overhanging limestone cliffs dominate the beach and create a colourful and dramatic back drop especially towards evening. On this particular evening there were several parties spread... Continue reading "Contos spring Contos Beach Margaret River region"
Nearly every coastal town has a back beach, the one that is less popular with the visitors, but well known to the locals. It is usually accessed via a dirt track off the bitumen leading somewhere over the dunes. Unlike the local surfers and fishers, I don't use a 4WD, so I hike along... Continue reading "Back beach south coast Western Australia"
Early morning photography Early morning photography provides the photographer with many opportunities. One such opportunity is this image of Lefroy Brook near Pemberton. It was the pay off for leaving my warm sleeping bag early, hiking along a dark track through karri forest with only my head lamp, until I came to my river location. Scouting... Continue reading "Early morning photography Pemberton Western Australia"
D'Entreacasteaux National Park Tracks Donnelly River south coast Pemberton Australia was made at sunset. When you head south from Manjimup on the South Western Highway you cross the Donnelly River. It's a short bridge barely wider than the highway. Blink and you'd miss it. But downstream the Donnelly River is majestic. It passes quietly through... Continue reading "Tracks Donnelly River south coast Pemberton Australia"
Bull Creek tree ferns is an image I am yet to print. It was made in 1988 on a friend's property at Bull Creek, in the Cradle Mountain Valley, Tasmania. We had spent a wet day hiking through myrtle forest and tree ferns on the slopes above Lake Cethana locating the old survey pegs. In... Continue reading "Bull Creek tree ferns Cradle Mountain Valley"
I recently read Funemployed by Justin Heazlewood, a book written about the realities of earning a living as a fulltime artist in Australia. Heazlewood, an author/ comedian/musician/ writes a painfully entertaining account of his experience making a full time living in the arts. He shares his successes and his lows. In an age of facebook and... Continue reading "Funemployed Justin Heazlewood"
Canning River Photos Silver Gelatin Print Exhibition Heathcote Gallery Perth "Dissociation" is an exhibition of Canning River Photos. It continues to document the contemporary landscape of one of Perth's largest metropolitan regional parks and its relationship to the environment of Perth's major water ways. It is an attempt to resolve the conflict between the visual... Continue reading "Canning River Photos Silver Gelatin Print Exhibition"
I have listed four common photographic print types using silver and chemistry as their basis. These include traditional silver gelatin fibre based prints, Polaroid prints, Type C colour prints and Cibachrome or Ilfochrome prints.
[justified_image_grid ids="4271,4293,4564,4565,4266" use_link_attributes=everywhere link_title_field=caption lightbox=foobox mobile_lightbox=foobox disable_mobile_hover=yes mouse_disable=yes] This is the last in a series of three posts exploring a single, high contrast image, with the goal of making a silver gelatin fibre based print. The first post was Overdeveloped negatives - printing from difficult negatives and the second Contact Proof Prints-standard exposure time. Split... Continue reading "Split grade printing on fibre based paper"
