Print Solarization: Controlling the Sabatier Effect
by Ed Buffaloe
The latest theory on the Sabatier effect, and how to solarize papers, which developers to use, and how to control the result.
Altering a Negative’s Personality: Reduced Agitation Film Processing
Stand, semi-stand and extreme minimal agitation give a unique and powerful means of affecting mid-tone contrast, and put the personality of the negative more in your control than ever.
Articles on photography
Working methods and theory, written by the people who make the prints. All articles
Mordançage
by Christina Z. Anderson
An arcane bleach-etch process that lifts the dark emulsion from the paper so it can be moved, draped or washed away.
Novel Diapositive Images with Cerium Reversal Bleach
by Harvey W. Yurow
Getting Started in Wet Plate Collodion
by Joseph Smigiel
Making Kallitype Prints
by Sandy King
Cuenca, Spain
A 7 × 17 inch carbon transfer print, made in 2001. Pigment in hardened gelatin, one of the most permanent of all photographic processes.
Read The Carbon Transfer ProcessMore from the articles
Grouped by process family.
Iron and silver-iron
- Cyanotype FormulaeEd Buffaloe
- Kallitype ProcessSandy King
- Vandyke NotesWynn White
- The Chrysotype ReinventedR. E. Puckett
- Salted Paper FormulaeEd Buffaloe
Pigment and dichromate
- Carbon Transfer ProcessSandy King
- Tri-color Gum with CyanotypeSam Wang
- Casein Bichromate ProcessErnest Theisen
- Temperaprint FundamentalsPeter Fredrick
- Bromoil ProcessEd Buffaloe
Silver, developers and toning
- Mixing DevelopersEd Buffaloe
- Rodinal for Film DevelopmentEd Buffaloe
- Development by InspectionEd Buffaloe
- Split-ToningJonathan Bailey
- Blue ToningLiam Lawless
Cameras, lenses and printing
- The 7artisans 25mm f/1.8 LensEd Buffaloe
- Coffee Can Pinhole CameraEd Buffaloe
- Photopolymer PrintingJim Read
Photographic formulae
Developers, toners, sensitizers and fixers, with working notes.
Film development times
Times and dilutions for common film and developer pairings.
The Cyanomicon
Dr. Mike Ware’s history, science and art of cyanotype, free to download in its updated edition (PDF, 5.2 MB).
Poetry
Waiting for the Asteroid
New poems by Ed Buffaloe. $5 plus shipping in the U.S. How to order