April 2025
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
14h 4m
English
MARK OSTERMAN
“There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.”
—Ruth Bernhard
© 2006, 2013, 2023 Mark Osterman, Scully & Osterman Studio, Rochester, NY
The following instructions, updated from previous publications, are a starting point for learning how to make your own black-and-white photographic emulsion. The emphasis is for making gelatin dry plates on glass, but the same emulsion is also suitable for coating onto flexible films and paper. Mind you, these are the very basics, but if you follow the directions, it's possible to make your own dry-plate glass negatives capable of extraordinary resolution and with wide transition ...
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