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Rockland Mansion (1810), Fairmount Park, Philadelphia 2025 Seneca 8 (c. 1908), 5x7 paper negative #BelieveInFilm #LargeFormat #PaperNegatives 🎞️📸

Black and white photo of an old mansion in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.

Phew! It’s pictures! Family portraits for the holidays. ❤️❤️ (Paper neg in the wash) #BelieveInFilm #LargeFormat #PaperNegatives

An inverted cell phone photo of a paper negative in the wash. The negative looks like a positive but the sink and background all look weird because they are inverted.

Back on my nonsense. Making everyone sit for old-timey portraits to celebrate being together for thanksgiving! #BelieveInFilm #LargeFormat #PaperNegatives #Tintypes

Two large format cameras, a 5x7 and an 8x10, setup on tripods on a walkway ready to shoot.

I had such a ball shooting large format portraits at the #PhillyTweedRide. Cool nerds dressed up to ride vintage bikes and super psyched to have their photo taken with antique cameras.

#BelieveInFilm #LargeFormat #Philadelphia #PaperNegatives #DryTintypes

A dryntintype photo of a gentleman wearing tweed and posing in front of the Philadelphia art museum.

A black and white photo of a woman posing with a bicycle in front of the museum. A paper negative on 8x10.

A gentleman posing with his bike on 5x7 paper negative. Taken with the restored Seneca 6.

A cell phone photo of me posing with my gear (3 large format cameras). In front of the museum.

Leverington Cemetery at Dusk, Philadelphia 2024 Seneca 6 5x7, paper negative (rated iso 6), f64 ~few seconds, dev’d in caffenol. #BelieveInFilm #LargeFormat #PaperNegatives 📸🎞️

Black and white but slightly sepia toned image of a straight gravel path through a historic cemetery. A large tree is in the distance.

Cell phone photo of the Seneca set up at dusk.

Fall textures (cont’d). Buttercup Cottage, Philadelphia 2024 Restored Seneca 6, 5x7 panchromatic paper negative (ilfospeed rc), ~6 sec @f22 (U.S. 32!) #LargeFormat #PaperNegatives #BelieveInFilm #BelieveInPaper

Black and white photo of the old stone barn at Buttercup Cottage on Cresheim Valley dr.

Cell phone photo of the Seneca 6 set up on a tripod facing the old barn.

Fall textures. Buttercup Cottage, Philadelphia 2024 Restored Seneca 6, 5x7 panchromatic paper negative (ilfospeed rc), ~3 sec @f16 (also U.S. f16!) #LargeFormat #PaperNegatives #BelieveInFilm #BelieveInPaper

Black and white photo of a rusty hatch covered in graffiti in an old stone wall.

Cel phone photo of the Seneca 6 set up on a tripod pointing at the wall for this shot.

Cell phone photo of the ground glass, under the dark cloth, showing the shot framed up in focus.

The High Point Cafe, Allen’s Lane Train Station (1880), Philadelphia 2024

Brownie no. 3a (1911-17), Arista rc paper negative, scanned/inverted (left) contact printed/scanned (right).

#BelieveInFilm #PaperNegatives #ShittyCameraChallenge

Black and white photo of an old train station building with cars parked around it.

The same train station but this is the scanned positive contact print which is a little muddier than the scanned and inverted negative.

Buttercup Cottage Barn, Wissahickon Valley Park, Philadelphia 2024

Bichrome on paper negatives (Arista RC and Ilfospeed Digital RC with a red filter in the holder) with restored Seneca 6 5x7

#BelieveInFilm #TrichromeEverything #BichromeEverything #PaperNegatives 📸🎞

A “color” photo made by combining two black and white paper negatives. One on unfiltered orthochromatic Arista RC paper, recording the green and blue channel, one on panchromatic Ilfospeed Digital RC with a red filter, recording the red channel. The combined image creates a quasi color image with only two color channels. The image shows the corner of the ruins of the barn at Butter Cup cottage near the Wissahickon creek in northwest Philadelphia.

Abstraction and memory.

Scraps of cyanotype coated tissue paper - forgotten parts of other works - laid out in up to 6 layers as 'negatives'.

Sun reveals the constructed image. It reminds me of [ ].

And you?

It's a strange creative process.

Like searching for the memory of something you had forgotten that you remembered.

#cyanotype #blueprint #scraps #AbstractArt #memory #forgotten #remembered #layers #ArtisticProcess #sunprint #PaperNegatives #TissuePaper #PhilosophyOfMemory

An abstract of what seems white marks on a greenish blue background which differs in shades all over the paper
The white marks look like brush marks. There is a main upright form centreright, with offshoots horizontally both left and right

Scraps of white tissue paper with dark painted brush marks. The paper is is multiple layers and there are many scraps

Detail from the first image showing white marks, blue marks and green marks with lots of tonal and textural variation

My dad, 2023.

Digital inversions of paper negatives, Seneca Improved View 8x10 and the Astragon 210 4.5.

First two test shots with the 210 4.5. I was also using very expired Kodak paper that I recently found in storage that I think I bought in the late 90s. It is pretty fogged so these are not the best negatives, but the results seem promising nevertheless.

#BelieveInFilm #PaperNegatives #LargeFormat

A very contrasty paper negative portrait of my dad sitting on his front steps. Looking very serious as he usually does.

Another closeup portrait of my dad, this time even closer. This is a smaller aperture shot, so more is in focus, but it’s also even muddier because I underexposed it by at least a stop and had to try to bring it out when inverting it in light room.

The barn at the former Buttercup Cottage, Philadelphia 2022.

Taken with the Seneca Improved View 8x10, on paper negatives, with Arista Semi-matte VC paper (rated at ISO 6), several second exposures (using my hand) at f36 and f22 respectively, developed in dilute Arista liquid paper developer, quick scan/invert (still wet!) with phone.

#BelieveInFilm #PaperNegatives #LargeFormat