I’ve been a large format photographer for a few years and although I’ve been dedicated to analog from the capture side, I’ve stayed firmly 100% digital from that point onwards – So much so that I ended up starting a drum scanning service (and a very good one if I might say so). However I’ve become more interested in the creation of ‘artefact’ after a book making workshop with John Blakemore and also a discussion with the late David Chow about his experiments in multi-coating platinum palladium which reminded me of one of Steichen’s images of a moonlit lake.
I decided to follow up this interest by looking at a few alternative printing processes and this blog will document my experiments and results along the way. Along the way I’ll discuss and link to various resources and hopefully get a few interviews with experts, suppliers and artists who are also using these hand made printing practices.
Just as a quick starter, here’s the source of my first failed print.. What went wrong here? Just a case of Hubris – I thought I could run before I could walk
Good evening. V. Interesting web site. But do you still offer a scanning service?
Hey Tim,
Is it safe to assume you are the same Tim Parkin that has (had? it’s seems like maybe it is defunct) a landscape photography site at timparkin.net?
I just tried to contact you through that but then thought maybe worth looking for something more current…
…I had a couple questions regarding the Tango and Porta and the like but I wanted to ask if you were the same person before troubling you with the details.
By the way, totally separate and random, but really love this page, too, which I would have never found otherwise.
I don’t do much alt printing but I used to shoot a lot of calotypes back when I worked with an alt photo place in NYC years ago. They also did a variety of alt printing. Despite never getting around to learning that side of it myself, it was a really great to see. Really gave me a new appreciation for it. I remember years ago when there was a big Steichen, Stieglitz and Strand exhibit here. Blew my mind.
Anyway, sorry to drone on.
Let me know if you are the same Tim and if you might be ok with my picking your brain a little.
All the best.
David
Looks to me like you forgot to invert to a negative image or the driver invert option was already selected so it was inverted twice and you ended up with a positive digital “Negative”. Sometimes that can look better than intended.!