About Analouge photography...

Analouge photography is an AMAZING world to enter... Yes, yes... Photography itself is an amazing world itself... But for a guy like me who's experimenting with the techniques and story telling... Well then the analogue photography is like a play ground... And i'm the little kid who wants play with all the toys... 

Why am i writing about analouge photography? Well i stumbled upon this link today: 
So You Want to Shoot Film - Peta Pixel

It's a great starting tutorial... But i have some corrections to it...

Correction number: 1

When "agitating" your film you can do it like he does... But you don't have to be careful and all that... I'm always brutal, using development of pictures as an exercise... No harm has ever happened to my negatives... 

Correction number: 2

You don't have to be "on time" when changing chemicals... I always take it nice and quietly... 

Correction number: 3

If you use the Kodak HC-110 developer like i do... You can pour the chemicals you've mixed back into the "mixed container"... DO NOT MIX WITH THE CONCENTRATED CHEMICALS... It'll ruin the concentrated chemicals... and they are VERY EXPENSIVE...
But the developer doesn't "die" like he says in the video... It gets weaker... But you can use it... around 10 times... Just remember it needs to be changed around once every 3. week... Because it also weakens over time...

Think that was all the corrections...

Analouge as art...

Yes analogue is mostly for art photography now... And almost all we hear about is 35mm film, medium format, large format, and old negatives... And that's all very nice... But the real interesting techniques is techniques like these...

Liquid emulsion...

I've been rambling about this technique a LOT to my friends... Every time someone just mentions analogue i'm like: "Uh, UH, UH! You know what you should try? Liquid emulsion..." And they're always asking: "What's that?" And then hell breaks loose... I start one of my famous long explanations... Starts something like this: "You don't know what liquid emulsion is? (Sigh)... Okay... Well years, and years ago..." And then it just goes on...

Here's the short version... 

Basically it's a process where you make your own paper by "painting" The light sensitive material onto whatever surface you want to develop on... A table, a cat (cannot recommend that one) ceramics, a book, a wall, hell... I even once heard a story of a guy who took a picture of him driving naked, and used liquid emulsion technique to develop the picture on his car door... 

I did'nt make this, or anything... 

Inspiration... Look at this: http://www.rayknoxphotography.com/gallery_130492.html#photos_id=3407832

Or this:

http://www.emilschildt.com/EMULSIONER.htm

"But Jonas you've made a lot of liquid emulsion before... We want to see your pictures... We want to see if you really know how to do it..." Well dear readers... I only have one liquid emulsion picture (as far as i can remember) that i've posted on the internet... And as of right now i can't access my flickr account (don't know why)... But yeah one (maybe more) on the internet... The rest hanging on the walls of my mothers house... Why? Well i don't like what happens to my pictures when i scan or photograph them... 

Cyanotype...

Cyanotype is the same principal as liquid emulsion... Just easier... You paint the photographic material on a surface of your choosing... But the chemicals are different... Slower... And your picture turns blue... And can be toned with tea, vine, coffee, anything without sugar... But the most amazing thing about this process... 

When you've painted the material on your surface... You make a negative the size of the picture you want... And then you press that negative and whatever you've painted on together with a glass plate... And put it out into the sun for some time... Yes an analogue development technique which requires sunlight... 

And there are so many more techniques... 

I could go on... And on... But as an end thing... Try searching for the "bromoil" technique on google... You develop the picture like a normal liquid emulsion picture... But after you've made a perfect picture... You "bleach" it... And use special oil painting to bring back the picture... But now it's gonna look like a mix between a painting and a photo... (Looks mostly like a photo of course... But it's still an amazing process...) 

Yes i'm soon going back into the darkroom... Have an idea about mixing some analogue with some digital...