Ned's photos with the keyword: paper positive

Looking out over the dirty rain-splattered hood of my car, windy day at the coast yesterday... there were whales jumping out of the water and splashing out there :) Pinhole paper positive, trying out an idea.... if you re-expose and re-develop these, they like to be a little on the underexposed side, so I tried exposing for the sky. 30 second exposure. After bleaching, re-exposed to light and then re-developed in normal print developer. Pretty good sky for paper.

Redwoods at Riverfront Regional Park in Sonoma County, California pinhole paper positive, 1 hour. Redeveloped in thriourea. There was a bald eagle perched in a tree about a 1 minute walk from here.

The "plant wizard" Luther Burbank had experiment plots at this location which is now in the middle of the city of Santa Rosa. His widow sold the land to Santa Rosa Jr. College in 1930, and it was maintained as a park for about 20 years. It is now the site of the Santa Rosa Jr. College campus. The old oak tree on the left would have been here when Burbank was alive, and there are many beautiful old heritage oaks on the campus. Another "direct paper positive" made with a pinhole camera. Bleach with weak H2O2 and redeveloped in thiourea. 7x11 inches.

Behind a handcrafted yarn store... This was painted flat barn red and is not overexposed after 6 minutes! ( Normal exposure would be around 40 or 45 seconds in full sunlight like this ) I tried this a week ago with a 1 minute exposure and the result was almost blank. Direct pinhole paper positive using mostly safer chemicals, re-developed in thiocarbamide.

In Cotati, California. Here in Northern California we don't have as many palm trees as in the Southern part of the state. Another pinhole paper positive made by bleaching the negative with hydrogen peroxide and then redeveloping with thiourea.

Another "direct positive" this time redeveloped in thiourea ( sepia toner ). Rainy afternoon, 1 hour exposure in a coffee can pinhole camera.

Another "direct positive" this time redeveloped in thiourea ( sepia toner ). Rainy afternoon, 1 hour exposure in a coffee can pinhole camera.

In Cotati, California Pinhole paper positive made by reversal process using safe chemicals. ( Really hard to make these without touching them at all... I was wearing nitrile gloves, and that fingerprint happened before I put it into the bleach... any touch at all leaves a mark. oh well! :)

This is one of my favorite trees... at Crane Creek Regional Park in Sonoma County, California Pinhole paper positive made by reversal process using safe chemicals.

At Ragle Ranch in Sebastopol, California. Pinhole paper positive made by reversal process using safe chemicals.

At Ragle Ranch in Sebastopol, California. Pinhole paper positive made by reversal process using safe chemicals.

Another "direct positive" made from the photo paper that was in my pinhole coffee can camera.

It rained here on Friday and I let this pinhole shot go for 48 minutes to try another direct positive. Blacks came out a bit weak ( I think I pre-flashed the paper double by mistake ) but it looks kinda neat anyway.

Oaks at Crane Creek Regional Park in Sonoma County, California. This is a new direct positive process developed by Ricardo Leite and Joe Van Cleave. You are looking at the same photopaper that was in my coffee can pinhole camera, not an inverted scan or contact print. It uses hydrogen peroxide and citric acid instead of more toxic and dangerous chemicals like potassium dichromate and sulfuric acid. This particular one was made even more safely by using weak 3% hydrogen peroxide like you can buy at any drugstore.

This is a remnant apple tree from orchards that were in our area over 100 years ago. Its trunk is hollow and has 3 big holes in it, but somehow it still hangs on. Many years I've made pies from its apples, but this year it did not manage to grow any. This is a new direct positive process developed by Ricardo Leite and Joe Van Cleave. You are looking at the same photopaper that was in my coffee can pinhole camera, not an inverted scan or contact print. It uses hydrogen peroxide and citric acid instead of more toxic and dangerous chemicals like potassium dichromate and sulfuric acid. This particular one was made even more safely by using weak 3% hydrogen peroxide like you can buy at any drugstore.