Nov
30
This is probably one of my favorite coffee stains images. The original photo was taken in Manhattan in 2005 and I coffee stained it sometimes in 2007. The idea behind it was to figure out a way to age a color image without turning it into a black and white or sepia tone photograph.
In this case the print was not directly stained like I’ve done before, but instead I coffee stained watercolor paper, scanned it and placed it in another layer on top of the original image. Now the original photographs looks like it has seen many years of hardship.
Posted in Experimental
Nov
24
Out of all post photo techniques available I have a great weakness to the fantastic, not to say brilliant, textured layer technique. Texture layers are not always just your common clean texture; sometime they bring dust, dirt, stains and creases to the photo and create a final grungy and dramatic appearance.
And because it is so simple to do I’d say the only real challenge is finding the right texture for a given image. But then again, if you have an idea what your final picture should look like, this is a no-brainer as well.
Here is the original (obviously the Brooklyn Bridge):
And there you go, a whole new image, with just an addition of one texture layer:
Posted in texture layer
Nov
19
One of the advantages of cleaning up my room other than the obvious improvement in organization and neatness is finding things I forgot I even had.
(just shows you how much stuff we keep even though we don’t really need it)
anyway, one of the things I came across was a folder with lots of cool slides I took around 1998-1999.
It was quite nice to go down memory lane and before you know it I had an itch to modify and alter some of these slides just like I’ve altered negatives in the past.
So this is how it’s done:
First I chose a slide that didn’t come out all that great (and I have plenty of these kind!)
I placed the slide on a light box and I used an artist knife to carve directly into the slide, basically going over the existing lines in the image.
That’s it.
Posted in Experimental
Nov
13
When People see this picture they often ask me to describe how I photoshoped it.
They think I used some layer texture process or something.
But actually this picture was not processed in Photoshop or any other photo editor.
It is originally a picture taken in Ashbury-Haight (San Francisco) with a cross-processed Fujichrome Provia-F 100 (RHP-III) Color Slide Film.
It was then professionally printed (by dotphoto.com) on a matte finish paper. It is necessary to have the photo professionally printed as the following steps would not work with an inkjet print.
The print was then directly (lightly)sanded and finally coffee stained.
Quite simple.
Posted in Experimental, Photographic art, cross-processed, inkjet transfer inkjet print printing transfer
Nov
11
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Last
picture
before
the rain
came down
over
San Antonio
Texas
Texas
San Antonio
An identical
city
Reflected
in
The sidewalk
Posted in Experimental
Nov
06
At last I found time to experiment long exposures with my digital camera (Nikon D60).
I took most of my long exposures in average lit streets of Hollywood.
Very quickly I became aware that since I don’t have a tripod I will have to adjust a larger aperture (about F/1.0) and quit breathing for a few seconds.
It worked out quite nicely, in fact, I thought it was pretty easy to do and I didn’t faint even once.
I guess I’ll have to find a new challenge now.
Posted in digital
Nov
02
These are two of the very earliest rolls of color film I shot. It was year 2000 and before it, for about a year, I shot only black & white, mostly using these Ilford rolls that came free with the pack of photographic paper. So basically shooting color film was a whole new territory for me and even kind of exciting. As I did all the darkroom printing myself (and I think its quite obvious I’m the one who printed out these contact sheets) I soon learned that color printing is awfully challenging, not to say frustrating and is clearly noting like black & white printing which is magically pleasant. And though you don’t have the direct contact with the chemicals, color printing which is done in complete darkness can simply drive you crazy before you can figure out
the exact exposure and filters needed to print out one nicely exposed and color corrected photo print.
The top contact sheet here was taken with a Fuji s-200 in downtown Manhattan in spring 2000 and you can see the twin towers in the 4th picture in the 3rd row. Also the 5th and 6th rows are pictures taken from the top of the World Trade Center.
The bottom contact was taken in Los Angeles using Agfa Ultra 50 which is a film that does not exist anymore. If I remember correctly I used this fast film to specifically shoot neon lights and neon signs.
Both rolls were taken with my good old trusted Minolta SRT 101 which I stopped trusting after the camera proved to break down just when I needed it most.
It’s incredible looking at these images now and feel like I’m gazing into my past life when really they were taken only 8 years ago.
Posted in Film photography
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