{"id":6452,"date":"2021-03-07T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T12:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=6452"},"modified":"2021-03-07T13:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T12:06:17","slug":"fifty-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/6452","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Six"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For my birthday the family humoured me by playing at making portraits in the garden. I broke out the Intrepid 8×10 – a special occasions camera – and we shot some very old Ilford Multigrade paper as negatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Me at 56 – Taken by Faith. Exposure of six little monkeys.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My daughter, Faith, is getting pretty good at doing the large format dance and did the whole exposure procedure on her own to make this image of me. It was a dull day and exposures were long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also found an old 8×10 glass plate I had coated so I made an exposure of the back of our building – about 10 minutes at f\/16 – then popped it through the same developer and contact printed it. (We live in an Edinburgh tenement flat and share the garden.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Direct scan of 8×10 plate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It is a pretty dull image but I enjoyed the process of working with the large plate. This is a way of working I have considered but not embraced because of the frustration with plate holders. I may look into making my own in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my birthday the family humoured me by playing at making portraits in the garden. I broke out the Intrepid 8×10 – a special occasions camera – and we shot some very old Ilford Multigrade paper as negatives. My daughter, Faith, is getting pretty good at doing the large format…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6468,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452\/revisions\/6468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}