Huntworth Creek
Posted: 12 Sep 2016, 00:23
11x11 inch tintype
Bit of a hiatus since starting up study of fine arts at Uni and moving house, other life stuff etc. Good to get the van/darkroom back into swing and make some plates. Made some big changes to the mobile darkroom giving me much more room to work in and makes the whole process much less stressful.
Slight technical problem with the dark slide of the chamonix 11x14 plate holder with 11x11 plate inserts pushes the plate too harshly against the dark slide, resulting in some scraping and emulsion damage you can see, otherwise I am pretty happy with the development and marginally improved technique on these larger plates. Starting to feel much more comfortable using larger plates. More relaxed and methodical. Having a while off to think and meditate on the process has proven beneficial. Thought deeply about where I'm going wrong and practicing criticism and self analysis much more thoroughly these days. But as all things in life, where 2 errors are corrected, another 1 or 2 pop up elsewhere...
Anyway, got the bug again. Hope all are well. Hope to make the next LF gathering this time around as I doubt I'll be heading South again this summer. Hope to see some of you there.
Bit of a hiatus since starting up study of fine arts at Uni and moving house, other life stuff etc. Good to get the van/darkroom back into swing and make some plates. Made some big changes to the mobile darkroom giving me much more room to work in and makes the whole process much less stressful.
Slight technical problem with the dark slide of the chamonix 11x14 plate holder with 11x11 plate inserts pushes the plate too harshly against the dark slide, resulting in some scraping and emulsion damage you can see, otherwise I am pretty happy with the development and marginally improved technique on these larger plates. Starting to feel much more comfortable using larger plates. More relaxed and methodical. Having a while off to think and meditate on the process has proven beneficial. Thought deeply about where I'm going wrong and practicing criticism and self analysis much more thoroughly these days. But as all things in life, where 2 errors are corrected, another 1 or 2 pop up elsewhere...
Anyway, got the bug again. Hope all are well. Hope to make the next LF gathering this time around as I doubt I'll be heading South again this summer. Hope to see some of you there.
