There are many reasons why I choose to stick to black and white photography, among them the abstraction of the image, the connection to the history of photography, and the fact that I just like the aesthetic. Another, more prosaic, reason is the fact that I am by now very familiar with the process — […]
Archives for September 2012
temple door
I’m finding these temple festivals increasingly difficult to find the enthusiasm to go to. The interest nowadays is purely photographic, and I don’t even lift the camera to my eye anymore unless the idea is new or, if it is similar to something I have already captured, an improvement on what I already have, or […]
toners
Started looking at toners. It’s complicated. Here we have sepia and copper. The sepia was added first (thiocarbamide), selectively. Sepia, I discovered, will prevent the copper taking. While the sepia only tones the silver in the image, the copper tones the whole paper except, in this case, where the sepia had been applied. I left […]