Archives for August 2008
Testing… testing… is this thing on?
I have been holed up in my basement for the last two weeks, coming up for air only occasionally. I’m pretty sure my wife has forgotten what I look like by now. I’ve been hard at work developing my process for palladium printing with digital negatives. It has been hit-or-miss so far: these test charts represent only about half of the total work I’ve done in the darkroom. Some of the charts are getting close, but I’m still not really happy with any of them.
Upcoming at Bond Street Gallery
I just happened upon the announcement of this upcoming show at Bond Street Gallery in Carroll Gardens:
Photo by Gerald Edwards
Young Curators, New Ideas
Organized by Amani Olu
Curated by Alana Celii & Grant Willing, Michael Bühler-Rose, Jon Feinstein, Laurel Ptak, Amy Stein, and Lumi Tan
Weird Science
Plate burner exposing a digital negative on Pt/Pd paper
All of my equipment and chemicals arrived last week, so I’m finally able to get started in the darkroom with platinum and palladium. So far I’m just doing exposure and calibration tests; nothing to report except that things seem to be doing what they’re supposed to be doing and that I’ve got a lot of work to do.