nykonartist
Hi, I lean toward the experimental/alternative process type of chemical photography. I don't see the point in taking a picture with a film camera that doesn't look any different than one taken with a digital one.
I have a large collection of film cameras: mostly vintage, some I've repaired, quite a few were rescued from a salvage box, some were given to me, some I purchased new a while ago, some I purchased used not so long ago. Some are plastic toys, some are nice SLRs and I have two view cameras for 4x5.
I usually develop my own film. I typically develop b&w in Rodinal 50:1. I've stand developed old film and unknown film including color C41 in Rodinal at 100:1 for an hour at room temp. I've shot and processed IR film. I've developed C41 color with a three part Cinestill kit. I've cross processed old slide film in C41. I've made my own Caffenol developer.
I've shot paper negatives and done lumiprints on paper stock. I've shot Polaroid but that has gotten hard to get for my old cameras. I've tried tin types but have yet to be successful with them. I've printed negatives in a darkroom. I've solarized prints while they were in the developer.
I've shot film in 116, 616, 127, 126, 110, 620, 120, 35 mm, 16 mm, 828, APS, IsoRapid, 4x5, Infrared, Orthochromatic and Positive Paper. I have no preferences. Recently I've started printing on cyan coated paper.
I have some classical art training and paint figurative art and portraits. I prefer to paint loosely and interpretatively in watercolor and I appreciate that it is the unsaid that triggers interest in a work of art.
My avatar is not my self portrait. It is a photo of "The Portrait of Enrico Vallecci" painted by Ottone Rosai taken at the Novecento Museum, Florence, Italy in Sept 2017 with my Minox 35 on Kodak Gold Max 400.
"Our heads are round so that our thoughts can change direction", Francis Picabia.
" Groping in vagueness is no more productive than blind adherence to rules", Rudolf Arnheim "Art and Visual Perception".
" Art is the elimination of the unnecessary" , Pablo Picasso.
"The Great Way is not difficult for those that have no preferences" , Taoist saying.
My Photos My Albums My Likes
My Albums
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Album: Cyanotype
shared by nykonartist on 2024-12-15 · 18 Photos -
Album: Belize
shared by nykonartist on 2024-04-20 · 55 Photos -
Album: Kodak CX620 (1970 vintage) C22 in C41 process
shared by nykonartist on 2024-01-22 · 28 Photos -
Album: Cinestill C41 Home Process
shared by nykonartist on 2024-01-21 · 125 Photos -
Album: The Clark Museum
shared by nykonartist on 2023-12-17 · 20 Photos -
Album: Marthas Vineyard
shared by nykonartist on 2023-10-29 · 25 Photos
My Metas
- Tags:
- 4x5
- Big Horn River
- Cinestil C41
- Cinestill C41
- Stand Developed C41
- belize
- boats
- c41
- cape cod
- cinestill
- drift boat
- expired film
- fly fishing
- home process
- home processed
- kodacolor-x
- large format
- marine
- montana
- wide angle
- Cameras:
- Agfa Rapid C
- Canon Elph APS
- Canon sure shot 60 zoom
- FW Solida
- Ilford Sprite 35
- Kodak Tourist
- Kodak Tourist II 101mm 4.5 Anastar
- Kodak Tourist Ii
- Kodak Vest Pocket Model B (circa 1925) - refurbished
- Konica Auto S2
- Lomography Diana F+ Camera & Flash
- Minox 35 GT
- Nikon EM
- Nikon FM10
- Ocean OX-2 "New Color Optics"
- Olympus 35 RC
- Olympus Stylus
- Olympus Stylus Zoom 140
- Tachihara 4x5
- the sun
- Films:
- Arista EDU Ultra 400
- Arista EDU ultra 100
- Arista Edu 400
- Artista EDU 400
- Fuji Superia 400 (35mm)
- Kodachrome 64 (35mm)
- Kodacolor-X (CX620 for C22 process)
- Kodacolor-X (CX620 for C22 process) expired in Aug1969 C41 cross processed
- Kodak Advantix 200 expired (APS)
- Kodak Gold 200 35mm Expired
- Kodak Gold 200 35mm Expired - maybe reversed for red scale?
- Kodak Gold 200 Expired
- Kodak Gold 400 (35mm)
- Kodak Gold 400 (35mm) - Expired
- Kodak Gold 400 (35mm) expired
- Kodak Gold Max 400 (Expired)
- Kodak Portra 160
- Kodak Portra 400 - 120
- Kodak Tri-X 400
- water color paper coated with cyano print chemicals
- Lenses:
- Anastar 101mm 4.5
- Diana F+ 75mm Lens
- Fixed plastic
- KodAK Anasti
- Meniscus lens
- Minox Color-Minotar 35mm f/2.8
- New Color Optical Lens 1:6, 50mm (aka plastic junk)
- Nikon 50mm f/1.8 Series E
- Nikon 50mm f/1.8 Series E + red filter
- Olympus E. Zuiko 42mm 1:2.8
- Olympus E. Zuiko 42mm 1:2.8 with Kalingor lens adapter
- Olympus Zukio 2.8 42mm with Kaligar Series VI Lens Attachments
- Piece of plain Glass
- Prontor II 2.9 Radionar 2.9 f=7.5 cm Schneider Kreuznach (probably uncoated)
- Samyang 28-70mm F3.5 - 4.5
- Schneider-Kreuznach Angulon 165mm
- Schnieder 95, 165 ; Calumet 210
- konica hexanon 45mm 1.8
- plastic lens
- who knows