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New horizons

I created the main page of koraks.nl back in….2005, probably. That’s a long time ago! For a few years, I fairly diligently updated the galleries and from time to time, I wrote something about how I did photography. A lot has changed since then. Panta rhei!

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Recent Posts

  • Getting organizized – A database for carbon transfer tissues
  • Ciao from Sicily – Some postcards
  • Don’t look down – Getting your film x-rayed when flying
  • Rolling – Gearing up DAS carbon printing
  • Ready, set, go – Stuff you need to get started with carbon transfer
  • Knowing what’s right, but getting it wrong – Some silly color problems
  • A ‘contrast ceiling’ of DAS carbon with continuous tone negatives
  • Peaks or plateaus – Light sources for DSLR scanning color negatives
  • Aching, flaking – A persistent problem with carbon DAS highlights
  • Subtleties – Subbing intermediate supports for DAS carbon transfer and a note on pigment prep
  • Balancing act – A brief look at ECN2 vs. C41 colors
  • Puzzling paper problem – A carbon transfer print surface anomaly
  • Creative possibilities in RA4 printing
  • Collimated vs. diffuse light – a cyanotype example
  • Kind of blue – A test with UV LEDs for DAS carbon transfer
  • Creative RA4 – Bleach and redevelop
  • A round roll in a square box – Cutting RA4 color paper sheets from roll
  • Fixing Sekonic L-358 and NP spot meter wrong readings
  • Composition target practice
  • Different kind of print – Making PCB’s at home
  • Pixels, not grains – Why RA4 paper is ‘digital’, and why this matters (not?)
  • Between the lines – The importance of interlayers in RA4 color paper
  • DAS right! – Solving the teething problems of DAS carbon transfer
  • Color carbon made feasible part 2: sensitizer-incorporated tissue
  • Color carbon made feasible, part 1: halftone screens
  • Color carbon and digital inkjet negatives: challenges
  • Potato, potato – Making an old Sigma lens work on every Canon EOS body
  • Some images – Tractor tracks
  • Easy way out – Inkjet on ‘DIY’ papers
  • To stain, or not to stain – Acid and pyro developers

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