A week off the day job has given me time to work on my silver gelatine glass plate negatives. I’ve learnt a big lesson and…
Roger Hyam
I realised I had all the chemistry, apart from gelatin, to make dry plates. So I bought some cooks gelatin from Waitrose and gave it…
The combined image above shows three photographs I made over the course of an afternoon and evening. I had my wet-plate collodion set up running…
Fun this afternoon playing with my adapted Voigtländer Avus and three month old Poe Boy collodion. I’m using quarter plate glass from some old glass…
The mechanical shutters found in many analogue cameras, especially those before the 1980s, are amazing pieces of engineering. Many still work accurately but alas many…
Twenty minutes walk from home the Hermitage of Braid is a wooded valley beside the volcanic plug that is Blackford Hill. Scattered across the whole…
My three month old iodising collodion finally got to me. Today I mounted an expedition to the bottom of the garden to make some collodion…
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln (attributed to at least)…
Are you bored during lockdown? Are you speaking to neighbours more than you did before? Would you like to be part of an art project…
The Argyrotype print process is a “modern” nineteeth century way of making silver prints on paper. It was created by Mike Ware in the early…
Stills Gallery and photography centre in Edinburgh was planning to run a project called Elementary Blueprint where they sent out cyanotype papers for people to…
During the Covid-19 lock down I’m messing with cyanotypes and want to have a go at Argyrotypes. These processes use contact negatives the same size…
With the family at home for the Covid-19 lock down there is no space to set up the darkroom and so little hope of analogue…
Working with the wet plate collodion technique is something of a “lifestyle choice” in that it isn’t an activity you can just choose to do…
I turned 55 on 28th February and we used that as an excuse to invite friends around on Sunday 1st March for an open house.…
The winter months have been tough in terms of colds and flu-like illness that have kept me from walking all the days I’d wanted. Nothing…
I attempted to make it to Braemar today to photograph the pinewoods – possibly in the snow. It was forecast to rain later but the…
Very inspiring. Shintoism/animism is important to me but so lost in our Scottish culture where gods of nature seem to have been shrunk to faery…
This is a really quick post about the new Stearman SP-810 developing tank because someone asked me my opinion. I must be one of the…
My first Salt Print (a la Fox Talbot). As usually I took the “bull at a gate” approach to something new. Google some Watch some…
It’s been a patching three months. Been on a work trip for a week, a retreat and been ill but when I can I’ve still…
I went to a lecture on The Walking Dead (a TV series about zombie apocalypse living) and photography at Stills by David Grinly last week.…
Three little questions everyone can answer How many flights have you taken in the last year? How many days in the last week have you…
Not much to say this month. Very crowded with the festival. Such a relief when the posters come down.
I made a disappointing ambrotype by pointing my half-plate, wet-plate camera out of the window. I was just doing a test shot to see how…
When you’re shopping for a large format lens one of the first things you want to know is what the coverage is. Will it cover…
If, like me, you spend too much time and money on old large format lenses you may be frustrated that the data that used to…
Breaking the 2,000 mile barrier. Lots of energy this month. First week on holiday in the Lake district.
From 1913 to 1935 the German company Voigtländer manufactured a midrange plate camera called the Avus. This was before the standardisation of sheet film holders…
There is no doubt that making wet plate collodion photographs is a faff. I can make an image with my phone in just a few…