Holga Coffee Prints

Today I developed two rolls of 120 mm file. When I developed the two rolls I ending up using the coffee developer.

The coffee acts like a dye and that is where the brown color comes from. but not all of the color comes out brown there is also a dark black that can be pulled out .

these next two images are double exposures. The one on the top was exposed twice and the one on the bottom was exposed three times.

Shots with a Holga.

I got back into shooting film but I just can't see myself shooting 35mm anymore. So years ago I bought a Holga and now I am taking it out for the coffee shot that I am going to work on. These shot below is not apart the coffee shots. but there where taken with the Holga.

Kanza Prairie pt 1

Kanza Prairie pt 2

Pic of the day

Here is an image that I took using a 120 file and a Holga camera. This image was the last shot I took. There is something about a Holga and way you can get an old feel to the shot.

Pic of the day

This image was taken in a forgotten area in Manhattan Ks, this park bench was build in the 1930's as one of the many work Public Work of Art Project take took place in the 1930-1939

"park bunch"

Coffee Developer?!

A couple of days ago I found out that you can use coffee as a developer. So I been thinking about trying this coffee developer. I going to be using Ilford Delta 120 Black n' White film. I have looked at many websites on the developing film with coffee and they all mostly agree that the recipe below is the most successful.
First get a jar of instant coffee crystals at your local supermarket. Next head to the laundry detergent aisle and pick up a box of washing soda. That’s the stuff that will activate the developing agent, the caffeine in the instant coffee. With the wide variety of laundry materials available today, washing soda isn’t the big seller that it once was, but the larger chains will carry it. (Baking soda just won’t do.) That’s all you need. And here’s a recipe for making a half pint of developer, enough to process a roll of 35mm film in a typical developing tank.

Stir the ingredients until uniform, then develop film for 25 minutes, agitating every 30 seconds.

Once I develop the film use normal fixing process but they say you can use saltwater as a replacement to the fixer. But using saltwater takes more time then normal and it the time my be different with brands of film. so until then use the normal fixer. then I am going to scan the images in the computer and then print.

By Kasper Hettinga


by Megan

This formula will develop any silver-halide emulsion, but for best results you’ll need to experiment. This is so you can determine the optimum composition.

When I get the images I going to post the images on the blog.

Pic of the day

Here is the pic of the day for Sep. 16 2010.

Zbrush Flashlight

Over the last two weeks I been working on trying to recreating a flashlight by using Zbrush. Most of the shape was made out of a cylinder that I just extracted. My goal for this little project was to recreate a real life object and make it as realistic was passable.

I am hope if I master this skill then I can place these object into photo were it is hard to figure out what is real and what is fake.

I think this flashlight need a little more work but it is very close to the original flashlight. To me it seems a little to shiny, and the paint job needs to be more dull in color or a little less reflective.

Please leave comments on what you think.

Pic of the day

I thought I would do something a little different tonight. I was a little bored today with I was playing a character alt in the World of Warcraft. so I my alt and placed him on catapult, creating a Bearapult. Hope you enjoy this image.

Bearapult

Pic of the day

I found this old truck near a train bridge outside Manhattan Ks. Looking at this truck I could almost imagine the passage of time and the erosion of the passed. It was also like this truck was a silent sentential looking over the Big Blue River. Standing guard waiting for the pass word to pass

Brad Kachel

Brad Kachel is a Character Designer and Video Designer. He also did background and props for "Destroy all Humans II" He has become one of the many new artist who is using Zbrush to create his master piece for his characters

Draenei from "War of Warcraft"


"Octopus girl"


" Joker "

Death Knight from "War of Warcraft"

Pic of the day

This image was taken a friends wedding that I ended up shooting for her wedding. This pic so far is one of my favorite.

Pic of the day

I sorry that I have not blog in a about month, but I been busy with the start of school. I been thinking about posting one new photo per day. This will go on for the rest of the year

This pic was a photo that I took long time ago, but I never printed until yesterday. This image is a night photograph take taken in a small town in Kansas.