Category Archives: Artist’s Journal

Laser Engraved / Etched Moleskine Notebooks

When you’re engaged in something as arcane as making daguerreotypes it’s important to keep notes. I always have one of my little notebooks with me so that I can jot down the UV reading, EV reading, and other information about … Continue reading

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How to Emboss Velvet for that finishing touch

I have had to learn dozens of skills in the pursuit of making daguerreotyping.  I needed to learn woodworking, leathercraft, CNC machining, electoplating, gold tooling, bookbinding, etc.  One of the most fun little tips that I picked up along the … Continue reading

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I made a shirt… about daguerreotypes.

I am a big fan of Neighborhoodies.  I own a handful of their ready-made shirts including “I Choo-Choo-Choose You”, and “Helvetica”.  I used their design-a-shirt tool to make this specimen on the left.  MAN I love the Internet. Neighborhoodies has … Continue reading

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Iodine – love it or hate it: it’s awesome.

Iodine is critical to photography.  Like the other halogens, Iodine forms a light-reactive salt when exposed to silver called Silver Iodide.  Expose the Silver Iodide to light and PRESTO! it turns black.  Cool, huh?  This reaction is so critical to … Continue reading

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More from Stephen Day

Last year I posted a quick little blurb about the woodworking artist Stephen Day.  Mr. Day recently commented about that post and I thought that the subject was worthy of its own update. I do have sets of fuming boxes … Continue reading

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