maxblackphotos.
  • Home
  • Bugle Blog
  • Back History
    • 2021 >
      • Conversation Piece-South Shields
      • Glasgow Street
      • Sage - Gateshead
      • Kibble palace, Glasgow
      • Boat Museum
      • By the Clyde.
      • Waters Edge
      • Fairy Knowe
      • Largs
    • 2019 >
      • Landscape
      • Monts d'Arree
      • Brittany Coast
      • Manchester
    • Les Fleurs
    • By the Sea
    • Manchester and the Quays
    • Bonnets
    • Tours de Bretagne
    • Vallee des Saintes 2017
    • Maison du Fromage
    • Metal Men-Portraits from Another Place.
    • Solute
    • Shadowland
    • Tree Line
    • des images fixes
    • Out to Sea.
    • Victoria Baths
    • Scout Moor
    • Manchester
    • Bord de la Mer
    • Stockport Market
    • Locqueric Bay
    • Metropolitan Cathedral Mono
    • Glasgow 2014
    • Jeux
    • Beetle Juice.
    • Manchester Wheel
    • New Mono 2016- >
      • New Black and White
      • River Argent
      • Les Roches du Diable
    • Galleries 2013 >
      • Underground - Movement
      • Scotland 2013
      • End of the Pier?
      • Animalia
      • Fins
    • Breton Jardin
    • Barr Village
    • London 2020
    • Old Tractor Portraits.
    • Road to the Isles
    • Crown of Thorns >
      • Spiders in the Meadow.
    • Chateaux Trevarez
  • 2022
    • Found
    • Creative
    • Multi in camera imaging
    • Seascape

Emulsion Lift

9/29/2017

2 Comments

 
Picture
The Autumn/ Winter season of  creativity is now in full swing, if you missed it the last blog post Leftfield and gallery Maison du fromage     well , they are up and running, my Video/ timelapse slider finally arrived, lithium batteries giving customs a bit of a tizzy fit apparently so played with that all day yesterday and now on to something I've put off for a while...Emulsion Lifting. There are many a fine video tutorial on that Youtube and there is a whole stack of duffers so here is what I've learnt...
I don't cut anything, just peel apart and then ease off the gluey edge surrounding the image area with the back of a brush
I use 2 trays of tepid water, first to get chemicals off the back, (dried white stuff) but using a very soft brush so not to scrape the emulsion and the second, very shallow to ease onto the paper
Finally I use an Ikea egg flipper to hold the image onto the paper when lifting out of the tray

by not cutting around the frame of the Polaroid the lovely Impossible Polaroid edge remains intact. Excuse the photo as it's an iphone in grim light. Ooofff lots to do, this image above was just for experimental reasons to see how the technique works but I quite like it...we'll see where this one goes to...TFI friday everyone   (Lawks it's nearly October)
2 Comments

Leftfield

9/23/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
Nothing to fear but fear itself...okay paraphrasing  FD Roosevelt is probably leaning on the 'Too Heavy' button this early on a misty autumnal weekend but like the attitude of Millwall fans 'No one likes us  we don't care' the Like or Fave or Please , please comment and share has become part of the fabric of Photo sharing on the Interweb. Okay back in the day I've got to say I was sometimes(lots of times) slightly miffed that another crowd pleaser had had been gently rolled into the recycle bin of solitary confinement...but I was younger and eager to get my way of seeing out to an audience that was wider than my cat and some close relatives..but then....
Things have changed for me, maybe age is helping as testosterone levels recede to be replaced by the need for comfier slippers and 'Something decent to watch on the Tellybox'...maybe it's because now, I really don't give a monkeys chuff about what folk think about my imageneering/photography and the only audience that really matters is , well me, me  actually creating something that I can say...'Hmmm Yep....' to So I present to you dear reader , a batch from leftfield, there is no depth, angst or wrenching going on, just a production of some new images that I quite like.....(please press as many fave /like buttons you can find on this page as I'm really really quite shallow and need the reassurance that a fave strike will give me...................)
0 Comments

Autumnal

9/22/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
The Swallows gathered in a huge group on the telephone lines yesterday...and were gone...see you in April. It's that time of year again, damp and misty, birds migrating, the bird feeders in the garden needing to be topped up every day and me wandering about in my Wellies shooting against the sun with wide open apertures......nothing changes.
So shooting with Mr Dependable, the old D700 with a 70-200 keeping the aperture around f5.6 not only trying to capture some decaying web laden nature but if you look closely, moisture droplets fluttering about in the gentle breeze. Into lightroom and a bit of white balance...er...balancing  quick waft in basic, some clarity and lens Correction applied which seemed to make no difference here's some more
0 Comments

Fountain

9/4/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
Went out to Chateaux Trevarez for the exhibition of images by Julien Geradin which are placed throughout the grounds of the Chateaux He has a collection of 6500 autochromes, a technique pioneered by the Lumiere Brothers. Okay you might have to do a bit of google translate on the pages but basically...the birth of colour photography I'll post some images below ......but just a quick heads up on the image above. Because the light was so strong and I was on a walkabout with the F1.8 ,I was able to freeze the motion of water coming out of one of the Chateaux fountains...1/3200, f 1.8 at iso64
So...images taken into Lightroom where I just synchronised a mono conversion, lens correction and a square crop..opened them as a layer stack in Photoshop..top 5 layers selected and dragged into a group, opacity of the group dropped to 30% a very soft mask to bring back some of the bottom layer detail and I used Color Lookup, an adjustment panel, to add some color to the mono conversion..here are the images used in the stack. As ever...less complicated then it looks written down...
So here are a few images from the collection of Julien Geradin and his influence on the birth of Colour Photography
0 Comments

    Archives

    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    February 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    July 2016
    April 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    January 2015
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012

    What's all this then????

    An unyeilding torrent of Photo babbel full of unconfirmed facts and manufactured photo drivel.. take from it what you like, it won't change the world but may leave you feeling nauseous...

    Categories

    All
    Black And White
    Black And White
    Blackpool
    Blog
    Bugle
    Camera Menu
    Cameraphone
    Camera Raw Filter
    Competition
    CS6 Paint
    D750
    David Johnson
    Espana
    ICM
    Image Libraries
    In Camera
    Kernevez
    La France
    Lightroom 4
    Lightroom 5
    Lumia925
    Manchester
    Mash Up
    Maxblack
    Mirror
    Mono
    Multi Exposures
    ND110
    New Direction
    Nikon
    Nokia
    Nokia925
    Nokialumia
    North Wales.
    Painting
    Photographic Studio
    Photography
    Photoshop
    Photoshop CC
    Photowalk
    Piers
    Pontiac
    Portraits
    Portraiture
    Prize Winner
    Scotland
    Scotlnd
    Scottish Scenes
    Scott Kelby
    Selling
    Time Lapse
    Time Stacking
    Video
    Vw
    Wacom
    Wide Angle Panorama
    Working
    Wwpw2013

    RSS Feed

  • Home
  • Bugle Blog
  • Back History
    • 2021 >
      • Conversation Piece-South Shields
      • Glasgow Street
      • Sage - Gateshead
      • Kibble palace, Glasgow
      • Boat Museum
      • By the Clyde.
      • Waters Edge
      • Fairy Knowe
      • Largs
    • 2019 >
      • Landscape
      • Monts d'Arree
      • Brittany Coast
      • Manchester
    • Les Fleurs
    • By the Sea
    • Manchester and the Quays
    • Bonnets
    • Tours de Bretagne
    • Vallee des Saintes 2017
    • Maison du Fromage
    • Metal Men-Portraits from Another Place.
    • Solute
    • Shadowland
    • Tree Line
    • des images fixes
    • Out to Sea.
    • Victoria Baths
    • Scout Moor
    • Manchester
    • Bord de la Mer
    • Stockport Market
    • Locqueric Bay
    • Metropolitan Cathedral Mono
    • Glasgow 2014
    • Jeux
    • Beetle Juice.
    • Manchester Wheel
    • New Mono 2016- >
      • New Black and White
      • River Argent
      • Les Roches du Diable
    • Galleries 2013 >
      • Underground - Movement
      • Scotland 2013
      • End of the Pier?
      • Animalia
      • Fins
    • Breton Jardin
    • Barr Village
    • London 2020
    • Old Tractor Portraits.
    • Road to the Isles
    • Crown of Thorns >
      • Spiders in the Meadow.
    • Chateaux Trevarez
  • 2022
    • Found
    • Creative
    • Multi in camera imaging
    • Seascape