Hand-coloring photographs is a fun and organic process that allows you to re-interpret your images again and again. Go out and take new pictures to work with or simply use some from your archive or royalty free images online. The…
Need to know how to create that vintage feel in your photographs? Want to instantly age a photographic print and make it look like it’s from a bygone era? You need Sepia toning. In the old days, it was a…
How to make a Camera Obscura “The best thing I did during my time at School was turning the entire classroom into a camera” – One of my Yr13 Students The Camera Obscura is fun to make, interactive and is…
Chemigram ideas and how to make them I have seen this attempted by many, but mastered by a select few. One of these is Pierre Cordier “With the advent of photography in 1839, painting underwent a radical transformation. Nowadays, the…
Lumen Print Tutorial Lumen prints are an incredibly an incredibly rewarding way to introduce yourself to the world of contacting printing, the biggest plus in their favour is that you don’t really need a darkroom to get them to work.…
Google Deep Dream is program which finds and enhance patterns in images via algorithmic pareidolia, and creates a dreamlike hallucinogenic appearance in deliberately over-processed images. Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists. Essentially the…
The growth of digital technology has developed a counter culture of deliberately distorting images using technology to aestheticise digital errors. Collectively referred to as glitch art, digital files are purposefully corrupted or have their code manipulated to create a purposefully…
How to create a wetplate photograph – beginners guide to tintypes. I’ve wanted to have a crack at wet plate photography since I was about 16, there is something that is captured behind the eyes of a tintype portrait that…
How to create a photogram This post explains how to make your own photogram. The technique harks back to the origins of photography, one of the first means of creating an image or recording a copy of a document was…
How to create a contact print of water This technique of creating a contact print is relatively unexplored in the photographic world, but all things darkroom and analogue are coming back into fashion and this is a great way to…