Comments for Leave Me Here.. http://leavemehere.wordpress.com Award Winning Photo Travel Blog Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:10:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Physautotype by TheToadMen http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/physautotype/#comment-3226 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:10:33 +0000 http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/?p=3110#comment-3226 Hi,
I recently followed a course in making dry plate glass negatives (see: http://thetoadmen.blogspot.nl/2012/09/making-dry-plate-glass-negatives-with.html). I got 2 great tips:
1) cleaning the glass. Get a normal. cheap bottle of liquid detergent (for washing clothes in the machine). dip you fingers in it and start rubbing the glass on both sides for about 5 minutes. It’s cheap and works perfectly: it removes all stains, fat, etc and it also cleans your fingers in the process, avoiding new finger prints ;-)
2) Coating glass sheets by poring liquid light in the dark is difficult and too expensive to wast. So – to practice poring – get a bottle of the cheapest coffee milk you can get and practice in daylight at first. Try to get an even layer without spilling. Then practice in the darkroom by red light and when that works for you, bring out the liquid light (or in this case: the lavender solution). The coffee milk has the same texture as the liquid light. I don’t know about your solution though, but find an almost equal liquid and practice, before using the real thing.

“Have fun and catch that light beam!”
Bert from Holland
http://thetoadmen.blogspot.nl
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]]> Comment on Karimabad (and the mythical Hunza Water) by jamalo http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/karimabad-and-the-mythical-hunza-water/#comment-3225 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:57:34 +0000 http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/?p=767#comment-3225 wowowowoowow nick name AMIR KUWAIT n o side effecct of Hunza water :P

]]> Comment on Sunny Sundays by Christina http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/sunny-sundays/#comment-3090 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:42:07 +0000 http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/?p=3032#comment-3090 Looking at this shots, It feels like there hasn’t been summer weather for two years. great work.

]]> Comment on 35mm in Hasselblad by RetroGunCounty http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/35mm-in-hasselblad/#comment-3033 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:11:25 +0000 http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/?p=2842#comment-3033 I have a question. How far did you know to wind the film each time? Isn’t the size of each frame different (i.e. not 6×6)?

]]> Comment on Physautotype by Keith Beckman http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/physautotype/#comment-2963 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:11:25 +0000 http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/?p=3110#comment-2963 The reason you weren’t able to get a workable photosensitive resin is that the lavender resin referred to in the original materials would have been the residue left in the retort from steam-distillation of lavender oil from the plant materials. A mixture of resins and tars from the plant will collect in the bottom of the retort, and this mixture is the photosensitive material you need.

If you have a large amount of fresh lavender (from a garden, say), you could steam-distill it in a steel bucket, ensuring that all the material was held up from the bottom by a screen. The resin would then collect below the screen, allowing collection for use. You’d probably want to thin it with alcohol or acetone, filter it, and then re-thicken by evaporation to prepare it for photographic use.

]]> Comment on The cost of backpacking in Japan by Emily http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/the-cost-of-backpacking-in-japan/#comment-2960 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:58:55 +0000 http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/?p=2759#comment-2960 Thank you for this! Very helpful & we love the pics.

]]> Comment on Tintypes by Rose http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/tintypes/#comment-2951 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:56:57 +0000 http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/?p=2809#comment-2951 Hello! I have just discovered Wet Plate Photography and have been searching through different techniques. Yet, I don’t have any idea what camera could take wet plate photography. I heard Polaroid (certain ones) can, but if anything which one were you using? That can help a lot.

-r.

]]> Comment on J.Pan – part 2 by Ina (@fnefh) http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/j-pan-part-2/#comment-2915 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:10:11 +0000 http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/?p=3009#comment-2915 amazing pictures!

]]> Comment on The cost of backpacking in Japan by Deb MED http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/the-cost-of-backpacking-in-japan/#comment-2821 Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:19:08 +0000 http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/?p=2759#comment-2821 Hello!!

I read your blog and found really interesting and helpful!
I was wondering if you could help us, myself and my boyfriend are going to Japan at the beg of April next year, as we havent been there before I would like your suggestion on our itinerary:
Tokyo x 3 nights
Kyoto x 5/6 nights
then another city we could see that is really different and interesting either close to Tokyo or Kyoto?
We will be backpacking so things will be on a budget, I have in mind the total of 12 nights, what do you think?
How much is the JR pass, is it worth buying it as we will travel only between 2 or 3 cities?
Any suggestions will be very much appreciated!!!
Thank you

]]> Comment on The cost of backpacking in Japan by Tenneike http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/the-cost-of-backpacking-in-japan/#comment-2791 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 09:13:55 +0000 http://leavemehere.wordpress.com/?p=2759#comment-2791 I love this post! I keep coming back to it while organising my trip to japan next april. Its so helpful, thanks very much!

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