Alternative Processes Archives - Photography Project https://photographyproject.uk/category/alternative-processes/ The best photography tips, cool project ideas and inspiration. Help for beginners, a level, high school, college, university students. Sun, 17 Mar 2024 11:48:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Hand coloring and painting photographs https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/hand-coloring-and-painting-photographs/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 12:09:02 +0000 https://photographyproject.uk/?p=1925 Hand-coloring photographs is a fun and organic process that allows you to re-interpret your images again and again. Go out and take new pictures to work with or simply use some from your archive or royalty free images online. The possibilities are endless. I thoroughly encourage anyone to try this method as it allows a […]

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]]> Sepia – What is it? Getting the vintage look, with cuttlefish? https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/what-is-sepia-in-photography/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 09:19:18 +0000 http://photographyproject.uk/?p=1492 Need to know how to create that vintage feel in your photographs? Want to instantly age a photographic print and make it look like it’s from a bygone era? You need Sepia toning. In the old days, it was a labour intensive process involving toxic chemicals. However, advancement in technology has simplified it to a […]

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]]> How to turn your room into a camera – How to create a camera obscura https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/how-to-make-camera-obscura/ https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/how-to-make-camera-obscura/#comments Tue, 22 May 2018 16:39:26 +0000 http://photographyproject.uk/?p=980 How to make a Camera Obscura “The best thing I did during my time at School was turning the entire classroom into a camera” – One of my Yr13 Students The Camera Obscura is fun to make, interactive and is always a hit with students and staff alike. What also makes this activity fantastic for […]

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]]> https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/how-to-make-camera-obscura/feed/ 1 How to make chemigrams https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/how-to-make-chemigrams/ https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/how-to-make-chemigrams/#comments Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:44:51 +0000 http://photographyproject.uk/?p=756 Chemigram ideas and how to make them I have seen this attempted by many, but mastered by a select few. One of these is Pierre Cordier “With the advent of photography in 1839, painting underwent a radical transformation. Nowadays, the digital process is revolutionising photography. The Chemigram, fusion of painting and photography, is most likely the […]

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]]> https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/how-to-make-chemigrams/feed/ 1 How To Make Creative Lumen Prints https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/make-creative-lumen-prints/ Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:06:51 +0000 http://photographyproject.uk/?p=422 Lumen Print Tutorial Lumen prints are an incredibly an incredibly rewarding way to introduce yourself to the world of contacting printing, the biggest plus in their favour is that you don’t really need a darkroom to get them to work. Head out into the garden with some shears, cut off some leaves, branches and flower […]

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]]> Google deep dream distorted portrait https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/google-deep-dream/ Wed, 09 Mar 2016 07:43:16 +0000 http://photographyproject.uk/?p=304 Google Deep Dream is program which finds and enhance patterns in images via algorithmic pareidolia, and creates a dreamlike hallucinogenic appearance in deliberately over-processed images. Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists. Essentially the program ‘thinks’ it sees a pattern in something and then exaggerates it. This is the […]

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]]> Create your own unique photographic glitch art https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/create-glitch-art/ https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/create-glitch-art/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:10:44 +0000 http://photographyproject.uk/?p=180 The growth of digital technology has developed a counter culture of deliberately distorting images using technology to aestheticise digital errors. Collectively referred to as glitch art, digital files are purposefully corrupted or have their code manipulated to create a purposefully distorted image. Much in the same way that Photoshop can aid a photographer to realise […]

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]]> https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/create-glitch-art/feed/ 3 How to make a tintype photograph https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/how-to-make-a-tintype-photograph/ Tue, 02 Feb 2016 17:57:49 +0000 http://photographyproject.uk/?p=81 How to create a wetplate photograph – beginners guide to tintypes. I’ve wanted to have a crack at wet plate photography since I was about 16, there is something that is captured behind the eyes of a tintype portrait that reveals something about a person no other image can. Don’t be put off by the […]

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]]> How to create contact prints, photograms and rayographs https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/create-contact-prints-photograms-rayographs/ Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:44:30 +0000 http://photographyproject.uk/?p=17 How to create a photogram This post explains how to make your own photogram. The technique harks back to the origins of photography, one of the first means of creating an image or recording a copy of a document was to create a photogram – also referred to as Rayographs after Man Ray. It is […]

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]]> How to create watergrams https://photographyproject.uk/alternative-processes/how-to-create-watergrams/ Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:39:51 +0000 http://photographyproject.uk/?p=6 How to create a contact print of water This technique of creating a contact print is relatively unexplored in the photographic world, but all things darkroom and analogue are coming back into fashion and this is a great way to create something unique for an A-Level or GCSE photography project or just for a bit […]

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