Hey, you may have realized already, the blog software does a pretty bad job when creating the smaller versions of the images. The images for the last two weeks are a good examples for this. If you click on one of the images to get a view of the original image you will notice that the smaller versions loose a good amount of tonality and also the colors show some difference. That is bad and I do not know how to solve this at the moment. Maybe there is some preset which let users configure how the images are handled. Maybe not, I think this software was never meant to be the base for an image concentrated blog. And at least, it handles text pretty well.
To make the long story short – if you want to see what I really want to show you, please click on the image to get to the larger view of it.
In the field, Zero2000, lith print
In the field, Zero2000, lith print
Tractor, Zero2000, lith print
Now this week I show you how different a lith print can look when developed in fresh or pretty exhausted developer. The above images is developed in old and exhausted developer. Old in terms of time it has been mixed up and old in terms of number of sheets gone through it. It was the last image I could do with this mixture, then I had to mix fresh developer.
On the right you see the same negative developed in fresh developer. The same developer was used for the image on the left. All images are printed on Fomatone MG FB and the camera used was the little Zero2000 I had with me when I was out to take photographs with my heavy and bulky Rollei SL66.
Heliposis, Zero45, lith print
Times are a bit tough, so I had not chance to go out photographing lately. So at the moment all I can do is to show you another try on the heliopsis. This time not a kallitype but a lith print. And a pretty dark one. I still like the kallitype more, but also this version has something I like. It is lith printed in SE5 lith on Fomatone MG FB.
Honeysuckle, Zero45, kallitype
Tough week, only one print I have to show. It is a kallitype print of a honeysuckle. The same honeysuckle you can see bottled (or is it jared) in last weeks post.
Message in a Bottle, Zero45, Kallitype
Message in a Bottle, Zero45, Kallitype
This is the same little flower from last week. But now put into a bottle … into a jar, but bottle made for the better title. This is an example of a whole series that I work on. There is a lot you can find in your backyard … and beyond.
Message in a Bottle, Zero45, kallitype
As you can see, it is kallitype time again. This is such a wonderful process and the scans just do not hold up very well with the real print. And it is something that you do not have to have a darkroom set up for. So I only can encourage people: Try it out, it is fun and the results will surprise you.
For those interested in what I put into the jar, the flower at the top is a heliopsis (in Germany we call it Sonnenauge which maybe can be translated into suns eye) and on the right we have an elder flower. We use those elder flowers to make a syrup which you put a little bit into your mineral water … tasty. And on the left you see a “bottled” honeysuckle.
I hope you like those images because there are more to come.