Love alternative processes?

We're all about historical photographic methods in use today. Learn how to print photographs with these techniques, or share your own experiences with others. Welcome.

Workshops

CAP-Daguerreotype: Mercury with Kenneth Nelson (Saturday and Sunday August 25 & 26, 2012)

The goal is to have each participant leave the workshop with mercury-process daguerreotypes that they have made themselves, and the knowledge to safely undertake the process on their own, from an informed standpoint.

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CAP-Daguerreotype: Becquerel with Jason Greenberg Motamedi (Saturday and Sunday August 18 & 19, 2012)

In this workshop we will learn, practice, and discuss different methods of daguerreotypy with the goal that every participant be able to produce several images, and quickly be on their way to making daguerreotypes on their own.

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CAP-Bromoil with Joy Goldkind (Saturday and Sunday, August 11 & 12, 2012)

The Bromoil process is a printing method that was very popular in the early 1900s.

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CAP-Ziatype with Brenton Hamilton (Saturday and Sunday May 5 & 6, 2012)

Ziatype is a printing out process that uses palladium metals.

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CAP-Gum Bichromate Over Platinum with Brenton Hamilton (Saturday and Sunday April 14 & 15, 2012)

This is a introduction to two elegant processes that were often used in combination in the 19th century.

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CAP-3D and Stereoscopic Photography with Bryan Whitney (Saturday and Sunday May 19 & 20, 2012)

3D, or stereoscopic, imaging is one of the earliest “alternative” techniques in photography and was in wide use by the 1850’s.

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CAP-Wet Plate Shooting Night (Thursday May 17, 2012)

This is a 5 hour shooting night for the wet plate community to interact with other wet plate photographers. This shooting night will be for shooting and troubleshooting the wet plate process.

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CAP-Wet Plate Shooting Night (Thursday March 15, 2012)

This is a 5 hour shooting night for the wet plate community to interact with other wet plate photographers. This shooting night will be for shooting and troubleshooting the wet plate process.

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CAP-Collodion Troubleshooting with Ellen Susan (Saturday and Sunday April 28 & 29, 2012)

In this workshop, students will explore each chemical step of the process, and how it interrelates and reacts with every other step.

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CAP-Cyanotype with Robert Schaefer (Saturday April 28, 2012)

This workshop is an investigation into the expressive possibilities of the Cyanotype. This process involves an iron-based chemical formula that creates a light sensitive emulsion.

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CAP-Intro to Wet Plate Collodion with Lisa Elmaleh (Saturday and Sunday April 21 & 22, 2012)

This workshop is an intensive introduction to the silver-based process that was the leading mode of photography in the 1850′s and 1860′s.

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CAP-How to Choose and Use a Lens for Large Format and Alternative Process with Eric Taubman and Geoffrey Berliner, 21 april 2012

This class will discuss how to determine the appropriate focal length and coverage for format and perspective.

Call for entries

Call For Entry: Both Sides of the Lens, Self-portraiture, Deadline: March 2, 2012

A photographer's most reliable subject is his or her self. By turning the camera on oneself the photographer is brought out from behind their lens, presenting themselves to the world as both artist and subject.

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CAP-Intro to Wet Plate Collodion with Eric Taubman (Thursday and Friday May 3 & 4, 2012)

This workshop is an intensive introduction to the silver-based process that was the leading mode of photography in the 1850′s and 1860′s.

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CAP-Multi-Colored Gum Bichromates with Brenton Hamilton (Saturday and Sunday October 13 & 14, 2012)

Introduction to the classic and flexible gum bichromate process.

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CAP-How to Choose and Use a Lens for Large Format and Alternative Process with Eric Taubman and Geoffrey Berliner, 3 nov 2012

This class will discuss how to determine the appropriate focal length and coverage for format and perspective.

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CAP-Beyond the Mousetrap: Building a Calotype-era Camera and Lens with Alan Greene

Taking inspiration from Talbot’s early “mouse-trap” cameras and other calotype-era designs, we will use contemporary materials like foam-core and PVC tubing to build whole-plate format box-cameras equipped with simple lenses.

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CAP-1847: The Art of the French Calotype with Alan Greene (Saturday and Sunday September 29 & 30, 2012)

Here, we will use one of earliest and most influential of the French techniques, a paper-negative method pioneered by the husband-and-wife team of Amélie Saguez and Jacques-Michel Guillot in the mid-1840s, and later known as “the Roman Method.”