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Two- month long alternative photography residency. (Goa-CAP & IFA)

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Organic Overlay

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Posted on April 20, 2012 by Yukti
gum

This gallery contains 11 photos.

The beautiful organic nature and effect of the Gum Bichromate process is wonderful once achieved. Tanima has been spending quality time in the dark room trying to practice and perfect this process. The image below is the result of a … Continue reading →

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Casting and Coating

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Posted on April 19, 2012 by Yukti
light meter

This gallery contains 13 photos.

On a fine sunny day such as this, Poorna gets ready with his setup to shoot more daguerrotype images. The slide was coated and ready to be exposed. Practice makes for perfection…so keep on keeping on! The subject was a … Continue reading →

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Perfecting & Learning the Van Dyke Brown furthermore.

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Posted on April 9, 2012 by Yukti
van dyke brown print

This gallery contains 3 photos.

Tashi was now officially the Van Dyke Brown perfectionist, and he has been on a constant steady and ever improving learning curve. It’s true that with trials come errors and it is also absolutely true that if you try and … Continue reading →

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Freedom Flight

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Posted on April 6, 2012 by Yukti
Pinhole making process

This gallery contains 20 photos.

It has been a month and a little more from the time that ALTlab 2.0 began its course. The resident artists have been practicing and researching more into their individual processes and also exploring other areas involved with alternative photographic … Continue reading →

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Seeking Creation

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Posted on April 5, 2012 by Yukti
Negatives

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Letting yourself go and letting the techniques play the role of extending creativity into different styles is conclusively the reason to master the craft and then explore your ideas more. Superimposing a Van Dyke Brown over a Cyanotype image print … Continue reading →

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Gum Bichromates – Further Experiments

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Posted on April 3, 2012 by tanima das
Ratio 1:1, cold press, 8 min under UV

This gallery contains 7 photos.

Lately I experimented more with ratios of chemical. Still I have not been able to judge which of the ratios is better. I used both cold pressed and hot pressed paper for the experiments. The ratio are 1: 1 and … Continue reading →

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Gum Bichromates – Learning through Trial and Error

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Posted on April 3, 2012 by tanima das
Using 1:2 ratio & exposure 8 min under UV light

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Learning from previous experience, I started my next exposure at 8 min under UV light and a ratio of 1:2, Potassium to gum. The pigment used was Lamp Black, Camel Colors.  Previously I was using only hot press paper. Now i introduced … Continue reading →

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