Techniques Film I shoot in 2 formats: 70mm and 8x10. 70mm is mostly Ilford HP5 and occasionally Bergger 200. 8x10 is a mix of Bergger 200 and Ilford HP5. 70mm rolls are hand processed on steel reels in Gordon Hutching's PMK formula. 8x10 negatives are tray processed in PMK or drum processed using the Pyrocat formula. Silver Gelatin Prints All Silver Gelatin prints are hand printed and processed to archival standards in my darkroom. Prints are matted on acid free museum rag. My paper of preference is Forte Poly Warm Tone. This is a beautiful, silver rich fiber paper, with warm blacks and clear, clean whites. Prints are usually developed in Defender Portrait Developer, which I mix from base compounds myself. Occasionally, I will use a Glycin-based developer, like Ansel Adam's version of Ansco 130. I print with an Omega D3 condenser enlarger or a Fotar 8 x 10 diffusion enlarger. All 70mm negatives are printed on the Omega. 8 x 10 negatives are printed on the Fotar. Prints are toned in a home brew of Nelson's Gold Toner. I will usually make a decision to tone to a warm black color or a brown/black color depending on the image. Bromoils Bromoil prints are on Agfa Multi Contrast fiber paper or David Lewis's Bromoil paper. Inks and brushes are purchased directly from David Lewis. I find them to be the best available. Photogravure Photogravures originate from 70mm or 8x10 negatives. Film positives are made on Arista APHS and processed in various dilutions of LC-1 to achieve the proper contrast. Autotype G3 is used for the resist. Resist are exposed on a homemade plate burner using 12 UV fluorescent tubes and a vacuum frame. Copper plates are etched in assorted dilutions of Ferric Chloride. Prints are run on a homemade 20" gravure press. I use various printing inks from a variety of manufacturers. Gallery prints are usually printed on Arches 88 screen printing paper, but I experiment with various art papers all the time. Purchase All work is available for purchase directly from the artist. I have tried to represent print tones accurately on the site, but differences in monitors will invariably result in viewing differences. In general, the originals are more beautiful than anything I could recreate on this site. |
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