Your latest dag!

[Jon Lewis]

As brilliantly suggest by Alan, here’s a thread to post your latest and greatest… or maybe just your latest 😉  Here’s mine:

 

 

Iodine to the 2nd red30 minute exposure @ f/2.83 hour developmentI really need to concentrate on my polish…

 

[TheDagLab]

Here is a recent test I did I’d like to share. It was a bromine quad test that shows how the image sensitivity degrades as too much bromine is applied to the plate.

[CasedImage]

Gee I don’t know Eric, the subject looks a little wooden… 🙂
Thanks for posting its a handy sort of thing to have on the forum.

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[jdanforth]

Wow, thanks for sharing that, Eric! That’s really enlightening.

[Andy Stockton]

Sharing your work like this is very helpful.

Jon – were the scratches on the plate visible when you started or did they only become clear after the image formed?

Eric – Did you just control the bromine exposure by sliding the internal cover plate partway shut? (And BTW thanks for clearing up how to get a model to sit still while I fiddle around trying to get this process to work!)

[TheDagLab]

Andy, use a piece of heavy stock paper and cut it into quarters and use that to make the tests. It puts marks on the plate because it’s resting on it but give a more acutate test. Try it out!

[Jon Lewis]

Eric, very interesting image! I wouldn’t have thought the sensitivity would go down so fast with added bromine.

Andy, I scratched the plate when I took it out of the camera after the exposure. It was under a safe light and saw instantly that I had scraped a little of the iodine off. In the end I liked the image enough to keep it despite the scratches. I suppose the more images I make the pickier I’ll become but this is only the third ‘keeper’ I’ve gotten.

[Jon Lewis]

Here’s my latest:

Becquerel daguerreotype, sensitized to the third yellow with red (?), exposed for 25 minutes at f/2.8, and developed for 3 hours. The image was taken at sunset so I was having a hard time figuring out what the exposure would be. A larger version is available here.

[CasedImage]

Here’s a couple of my latest, some tinkering evident in the galvanising I have been trying. One is of my mother in a case I made for her and the other is of my nephews who at approaching 2 years were never going to sit still for the three second exposure.
Jon, as well as liking the image I like the circular passe partout, quiet the original.

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[Jon Lewis]

Alan, unfortunately it’s not a passe partout. It’s just a black mat I cut with a circle cutter I got a while back. I’ll have a passe partout soon though 🙂

Your work is amazing as usual. Your nephews sat amazingly still for a 3 second exposure. My niece would have been long gone by the time I focused! :LOL

[CasedImage]

My latest, more of a test plate but worthy enough to be trying out the new forum and site…

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[jdanforth]

Alan, that image of your mother is stunning! Well done!

[jdanforth]

Alan, that image of your mother is stunning! Well done!

[CasedImage]

So today I had a go at macro daguerreotypy, by fooling around with the lens elements I managed to get quite up close and abbreation laden. Not overly optimistic I used an old plate that had seen better days but was happy to get a result. The subject was a wasps nest that I had liberated from their presence. First exposure was on a white background and was not kind to the imperfections of the plate so second went black. First exposure was barely a second in very strong sunlight and the second was 5 seconds as the sun was skulking behind a cloud.

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[Andy Stockton]

It has a mysterious quality that I very much like.

[CasedImage]

Last one of the day, I have labored long enough on these guys, I shot them one day in bright light but lost the quality of the plate in the darkroom. I have been trying to get back to that level of contrast but haven’t quite made it before my patience ran out. Its interesting that with the lens fall off the trees at the sides have a different hue than the one in the center.

 

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Out and about in the sun again today with a portrait of a writer to show for it.

 

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[botticelli1972]

Alan, are you still working Becquerel or are you exclusively mercury at this point?-Larry

[CasedImage]

Hey Larry, long time no hear, nice to see you back here. I haven’ done a single becq. plate since going mercurial. I don’t rule it out, but would rather continue the learning curve and get the mercurial plates to where I would like them to be.

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[Jon Lewis]

Here’s my latest. Quarter plate, sensitized to the second yellow, 30 second exposure at f/4.7, becquerel developed, fixed, and gilded. This was my first attempt at gilding and I naturally messed up a bit on the bottom right. It’s progress though…

 

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Another macro shot this time on ninth plate format

 

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[Mike Robinson]

HI all,

 

first time trying to post an image ,

 

here’s one I did recently. Half-plate galavanized over clad. exposed 12 seconds, EV 8 – ISO 100, f2.8

 

Iodine – incipient rose

bromine – good noticeable change

2nd Iodine – 3/5 ths of first

Hg 158F – 8 min

gilded 5 min.

 

best

 

Mike

 

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[Andy Stockton]

This is a moving image to me, particularly the effect of the eyes and your placement of the hands. I have read about Mr. Hauser’s work in Africa and elsewhere and that adds additional meaning to the portrait for me. Thanks for putting up the image and thanks especially for including the technical data, it is very helpful.

[drdag]

A couple of tests from my latest series, appologies for the poor repro. and dirty glass.

Interestingly I made and gilded a couple last week and failed to seal for about 5 days and the tarnish has set in already , making them almost useless.

 

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[Jon Lewis]

Wow, I really like that first image. I’m looking forward to seeing more from your new series!

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