What do eggs and Venice have in common? If you thought that this blog’s title weren’t quirky enough, read further. Mid-1850. Venice has become one of the most popular cities, drawing a steady stream of tourists. Many artists made a living by creating and selling views of the city. Photography by then had become cheaper…
Every morning the majority of people get up to a hot mug of coffee. At 10 o’clock the average white collar will get themselves a power shot, that encompasses their daily 15-minute-break. At 3 pm, after digestive efforts take the most out of their energy, another cup is ready at hand. Pouring a long black…
This week we have for you 2 movie recommendations that you can watch for free on Youtube. Both movies are produced by Kaufman brothers, born in Soviet Białystok (now Poland) into a family of Jewish intellectuals. Man with a movie camera A movie directed by Dziga Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman) is an experimental soviet…
Collotype is a photographic printing process invented in France in 1855 by Alphonse Poitevin. It gives accurate reproduction because no halftone screen is employed to break the images into dots. It looks like this old process is nowadays commercially used only in Japan. There are 2 studios left in Kyoto that use collotype printing to…
We are very happy to share this article about the Top 13 photographs chosen for WPPD – amongst which, one of our image has been featured When we started out our website/blog journey, with @Miresk and @Saturn9Photography, we said to ourselves that we would keep our minds open to several expressions we like to use:…
We are going to edit a photo from the ‘Botanical theatre’ series we took and posted on Instagram. I recently switched from Adobe to Serif company and their Affinity products. I found myself rarely using Photoshop and even Lightroom, so their subscription mode didn’t make sense anymore. This walk-through is created in Affinity photo for…
Today’s a special day for all pinhole photographers out there! We will share with you our takeaways from this day and the best online resources to enjoy it. We hope that you had enjoyed our very first article here and have also checked out our alternative photography images and recent Instagram posts. If not, we…
What: Type100 workshop Who: Chris Holmquist Where: @Polagraph gallery, Prague November started off with a refreshing experience for Saturn9: the OneInstant workshop given by the extraordinarily visionaire Chris Holmquist (https://www.polagraph.cz/shop/workshop-chris-holmquist) The workshop was carried out in a the minimalistic yet cozy setting of Polargraph gallery and shop in lower Žižkov and attended by a handful…
As per this photography article, Henry Talbot had invented the negative technique in 1830s. French artists also favored the paper negative and its poetic. Around 1850 the painter and experimenter Gustave Le Gray introced the waxed paper negative, which meant that the negative paper could be coated and kept up to 2 weeks before exposure…
Another experiment on FED-5 We are not known to the wonders of pinhole photography and we like to take on to new adventures with it. Last time, we acquired a Soviet camera adapted as a pinhole, of which you can read here. This time, we have experimented with a Fuji Superia film of 200 ISO…