“How-To” Technical Pages

The links below will lead to concise “how-to” articles designed to guide your first steps in the practice of various processes. — Clicking on “DIY” in the orange bar above will open the page devoted to camera & equipment construction.

ALT. PROCESSES


• Sizing a watercolour paper - René Smets
• Sizing a watercolour paper with Gesso - René Smets
• Designing a correction curve - Jan Strijbos
• Gamma 2.2 step wedge (from above document)>
• Gamma 2.2 step wedge (alternative version)
• Collodion Photography – Jan Strijbos - NEW!
• Polymer Photogravure – Jan Strijbos - NEW!
• Introduction to Oil and Bromoil printing - Jacques Kevers
• Bromoil with soft inks - René Smets (pdf)
• Oil Printing - René Smets (pdf))
• Oil printing on glass & slate - Armand Benedic(pdf)
• Carbon Transfer with DAS - Daniel Hache (pdf)
• Carbon printing with DAS - René Smets (pdf) - NEW!
• Carbon Printing - René Smets (pdf)
• The Cyanotype - René Smets (pdf)
• Palladium printing - Jean-Claude Mougin (pdf)
• Jean-Claude Mougin's website - Technical Page
• Salted paper: history and practice - Lionel Turban (pdf)
• The View Camera - Jacques Kevers (pdf)
• The iron-silver processes - Jacques Kevers (pdf)
• Gum Printing - René Smets (pdf)
• Mordançage: an introduction - Jacques Kevers (pdf)

FILM PROCESSING


• Divided Development - Jacques Kevers (pdf)