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Shown here is a image from my home made 4"x10" pinhole camera, the print is made by contact printing.

I've been working on learning how to use a wide variety of photographic processes. The norm nowadays is fresh out of the box factory made gelatin silver coated paper exposed under an enlarger using small negatives. The hand crafted processes that I am interested in as of late are generally referred to as Alternate Processes. All of the chemicals are coated onto paper by hand to create a light sensitive emulsion, not by a machine in a factory thus being an alternative process (apparently). A 4x5 inch negative is placed directly in contact with the emulsion of the paper with a sheet of glass on top, creating a sandwich of sorts. Even without much machinery involved this process of contact printing creates very beautiful prints.

This is a contact print from a sheet of Ilford HP5 developed in ilfosol-s and printed on ilford mgIV rc glossy paper. The image made with the previously mentioned pinhole camera using a 12~ minute long exposure.