Topic: new guest gallery

[LT]

Please take some time to look at the excellent holga and pinhole pictures/ alt process prints by Carl Radford in the new filmwasters Guest Gallery -  they are pretty amazing.

[This-is-damion]

amazing indeed, especially like the self portrait and the pool shot.

very cool.

can someone give me the heads up (in laymans terms) of the alt processes used?  look very cool i think.

[CarlRadford]

The platinium/palladium process has been used - using a standard kit from Bostick & Sulliven in the USA. I do not use ferric oxalate solution 2 as a contrast agent on advice from Kerik Kouklis and I will start addingpotasium dichromate to the developer having seperate developers for different contrast ratios. As such, at the moment, I do not adjust the contrast and I have some negs that would benefit from it. Have a look at the website of Kerik Kouklis or Dick Arentz for more info. It is not as difficult - nor expensive - as some would like you to believe but something that you need to spend time to master. Try cyanotyes first - ridiculouly check and great fun - look at Mike Wares site and John Brewer is another - make great T-Shirts for the kids, duvet covers or even curtians etc etc.

All the best, Carl

[lauraburlton]

Have not done platinum/palladium yet but I have done salt prints, van dyke browns and cyanotypes. I like the cyanotypes best- mostly because they are very versatile with toning, non toxic and cheap. You can tone with household items such as borax and tea. Very simple to do. Also just discovered precoated sunprint(cyanotype) paper. It was only $5 for an envelope of 20 sheets although the paper is very thin.

[beck]

His Ollie shot does it for me...I just dig work like that...ghostly, apparition like. Really fine work and another super great guest gallery.

[CarlRadford]

His Ollie shot does it for me...I just dig work like that...ghostly, apparition like. Really fine work and another super great guest gallery.

This is a 5x4 zero image pinhole shot. Set-up as he went to bed and finished when he got up. He was quite excited by the camera taking a picture allllllll night eve in the dark that he got up and put the light on a couple of time to see if it was alright. He can be seen checking a little pot - in it was a milk tooth and he kept checking to see if the tooth fairy had been! Ollie loves the image and I have to make one in his room when we visit at Easter. I am going to turn his room into a camera obscura - that'll really fire his imagination. He is pretty good at collecting leaves and feathers etc to make cyanotypes!

All the best, Carl

[your_waitress]

excellent set! i can't wait to do some pinholes again. thanks for the inspiration carl. chatelherault-bench is my favorite. just stunning!

[Susan B.]

Great stuff Carl!
Thanks for sharing your work with us.

[Tammy]

Agreed.  I'm loving your set here.  I'm also into alt processes and 4x5 at the moment.  (And I love pinholes images  ).

Thank you!

[Zoe]

nice. very ghostly. untypical. unique.

[Rogerrr]

I really like that bridge shot....also like the boats

but the bridge...just love that

[outofcontxt]

I'm really impressed with the entire set, Carl, but 'Ollie' is the one that really blows me away. It's truly wonderful.