Don Kamp Lecture

Tues. March 3, at 1pm
UArts, CBS Auditorium.

We saw some of his work upstairs at Gallery 339

WE ARE GOING!!!!!

Great News, we got all the funding we need, so it is official, we are going to Project Basho for a Daguerreotype workshop on Fri. March 13. You will need $30 for materials, an idea about how you want to shoot your plate, and Septa fare, 2 ways. (2 tokens or $2 each way.)

Alt Proces show postponed

Hi all, due to bad weather somewhere up north, the opening of:
Selections: Original Works from The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes
has been postponed until next week.

The Christopher James talk will be rescheduled for Thurs. Feb. 26th at 1pm in CBS auditorium. (UArts)

Alt Process show

Sarah Van Keuren (wrote our manual, my teacher) has curated an interesting Alt Process show which we will go to when we get a nice day for walking.

Selections: Original Works from The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes

But she has invited students to a special session to meet Christopher James, the author of the book. If you can make it, put it on your calendar: Thurs. Feb. 19th at 1pm in CBS auditorium. (UArts)

You can hear him speak, have him critique your work (probably more applicable to advanced students) and have refreshments.

Dreaming of Pinhole Cameras

This isn't exactly the most useful post for our class blog, but I had this crazy dream about Alternative Process and I just had to share.

In the dream, I had made a pinhole camera out of those cardboard folders one gets when one buys paper from Utrecht. (In reality, this pinhole camera would not work very well being as there was no space between the negative and the pinhole, but, it was dream, so...). Anyhow, I had loaded a large piece of lith film into the camera and had it sealed so I could expose it later. My boyfriend came along and, not knowing what the thing was, opened it up and exposed the film. I was furious.

That was it. Thanks for humoring me.

Lith Film

Class boxes are a few shelves under where the pinhole kit is. Ask the monitor for it when you want to use it, no need to check it out. Just remember that everyone needs it.

Alt Process fundraiser

We have decided to try to make some money towards the Daguerreotype Workshop; we are looking for funding from several sources since the cost came in very high.

Our idea was to sell small cyanotypes, bookmarks and cards here at Moore. We need to create an event, make some and figure this whole thing out. (I also need to clear it with student services, so we won't start just yet.)

But look over your small negatives and see if you have things you think would work (or draw something.) We can use spare moments in class to crank out stuff. Also look for spare paper.

Any good ideas? Share them!

Making Digital Negatives...easy!!

I pulled info. from a few different sources, so heres how I did it:

1) open your image in photoshop, change the image size to match the size of your desired print. (ex- 8x10)

2) Next, change your image to a negative. The easiest way is to just hit the apple key and the letter "i" at the same time.

3) Next you must adjust the curves. The curves will be different for every process, and they can be downloaded here

4) scroll down the page and select your process. Control click on the appropriate curves and select "download linked file".

5) back in photoshop, select curves. Once the box pops up click on the small box to the left of the "ok" button. select "load preset." find your downloaded curve and select okay. the curve should set itself.

6) Now you have to set the color. double click on the foreground color in the toolbox. Set the CMYK as: C=0, M=50, Y=50, K=0
the color should now be an orange color.

7) The next step is to go to Edit/Fill, another window will open, in the Mode box choose Color and OK and the image will change to an orange color.

DONE! Now all you have to do is print. I did a lot of research, and found that pictorico premium OHP transparency film works best. You can get it here.

just put it through the printer, with the paper setting for glossy.