So I got to thinkin’. I do this now and then – but today, sunday, in a brief moment of procrastinating on my homework, I’ve been thinking about Polaroids. I’ve been playing around with polaroid pack film for the last few months, doing some tinkering and battery adaptations and all that. I’d heard a few [...]
Checked on the concoction this morning, it’s a pinkish colour – but my darkroom seemed to be about 9 degrees, and a portion of the PaRodinal mixture was frozen. I’ve transferred it to my bedroom. Chemical reactions are, of course, slowed down in the cold. I’ll keep an eye on it, but it seems fine. [...]
Are you looking for the blogs of other photography types? Are you sick of a million blogs with “10 ways to improve your cat photos in photoshop (The easy way!)”, that are selling something, or that are fancy looking but lack any decent content? Well give these a look, you wont regret it. Photodino – [...]
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Donald Qualls’ Parodinal Recipe. Water – 250ml Paracetamol – 30x 500mg tablets Sodium Sulfite – 50g Sodium Hydroxide – 20g EDIT: Yep, Sodium Sulfite isn’t Washing Soda…that would be Sodium Carbonate. That’s what I get for not taking highschool chemistry. So what I made up before was pretty much useless. I’ll get some Sodium Sulfite [...]
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Ok, so the idea of making glass negatives is still active. It’s just I’ve had a lot on my plate recently, but hopefully with summer on the books and other things hopefully clearing up, I’ll have more time to spend on this, at least with wild ponderings. The Glass Plate Camera project has been re-evaluated, [...]