Beginning to get my act together on bromoils, although I would still like a bit more finesse. Here is Lincoln Cathedral, one of my favourite cathedrals in England.

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Beginning to get my act together on bromoils, although I would still like a bit more finesse. Here is Lincoln Cathedral, one of my favourite cathedrals in England.
How do I make smooth, flat, thin, even and bubble-free gelatin coatings on water-colour paper? Anwering this is crucial if I’m to make good Bromoil, Oil, Carbon Transfer and hand-made silver gelatin emulsion prints …
Continue readingThis post is one in a series called ‘behind the scenes’. The series describe how I visualise images and then the difficulties of putting these visualisations into effect as pictures.
Last year, just before the first COVID lock-down in England, I went walking in Sussex with my daughter. One of the towns we visited was Rye in East Sussex. I was curious how it might have changed since my last visit some 45 years ago.
Continue readingI have been playing with this particular scene using Bromoil to get an understanding of the different looks that I can create …
Continue readingQuite a while ago I attempted a Bromoil portrait which ended up heavy-handed. I have now managed a more delicate picture …
Continue readingA while back I acquired 15 sheets of Finesse bromoil paper. This post looks at how I handled it for Bromoil.
Continue readingThe underlying spirit of this blog is to share my failures in the hope that other photo-cognescenti can avoid some pitfalls. I have spent quite a few hours trying to learn the Bromoil process and I think I am now making a little progress, although there is still some way to go … Here I share my experiments with bromoil printing using Foma emulsion.
Continue readingAfter my initial foray into Bromoil I decided to switch papers from Slavich Unibrom to Fomabrom Variant 113 to see whether it inked more easily. This post describes how I got on …
Continue readingAt a recent exhibition of Rembrandt’s printmaking techniques I was struck by the similarities between Etching, Bromoil and Paper Negative printing. All show the hand of the artist. All share a certain sensibility.
Continue readingBromoil was made for us neo-pictorialists. The long attention to a single image perhaps stretching to several days; the impressionistic rendering of a scene; the knowledge that what you do is connected to the many pioneers of photography such as Alfonso Louis Poitevan, John Pouncey and G. H. Rawlins to mention only a few; these reasons are sufficient to want to keep this old photographic process alive.
But it’s not easy … Continuing the spirit of this web-site, I share my mistakes.
Continue readingI like to play at both ends of the expressive scale: silver gelatin photography in the straight style at one end and something much more expressive at the other, such as Bromoil.
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