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ALTERNATIVE & HISTORIC PROCESSES. A Handbook for Photographers

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My book used to accompany many of my teaching sessions.  Originally designed for degree students, this has been expanded over the years to cover more processes and techniques, as well as advice on cameras, materials and making equipment.


Detailed recipe-style guides on all these processes:

Lumen Prints

Chemigrams

Cyanotype 

Argyrotype

Salt Prints

Albumen Prints

Liquid Emulsion

Anthotypes

Polaroid Image Transfer

Emulsion Lifts 

Bleaching Instant-Film Negatives

Direct Positive Colour Prints

Toning:

Sulphide Toning 

Thiocarbamide (Thiourea) Toning

Selenium Toning

Iron (Blue) Toning

Iron/Sulphide (Green) Toning

Lith Printing 

Hand Colouring

‘Silver Plate’ (Rockland Halo-Chrome) Toning

Carbon Printing   

Photopolymer / Letterpress 

There are also descriptive guides to:

Wet-Plate Collodion

Daguerreotype

(while not as detailed as the other process guides listed above they give an idea of what is involved for the advanced worker who wants to move into these processes)


There is also information on:

Equipment

Sensitising Materials

Exposing The Print 

Digital  Negatives

Paper Negatives

F-Stop Test Strips

Colour Filtration Grids

Cameras and LensesMaking Your Own Equipment

Available as a  124- page A4 physical book or as a download.

  

Some sample pages are shown here...


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