A “color” Bi-Chrome photo made by combining two black and white paper negatives. One on unfiltered orthochromatic paper, recording the green and blue channels, one on panchromatic Ilfospeed digital RC paper with a red filter, recording the red channel). The image shows one corner of the ruins of the old barn at the Buttercup Cottage near the Wissahickon creek in northwest Philadelphia.

Buttercup Cottage Barn, Wissahickon Valley Park, Philadelphia 2024

Bichrome on paper negatives (Arista RC and Ilfospeed Digital RC with a red filter in the holder) with restored Seneca 6 5x7

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A color self portrait of me playing the guitar I made many years ago, and which usually sits near my desk. Color rendition is reasonably good: I am wearing a red hat, a light blue shirt and a dark green hoodie. The guitar is a dark brown (not quite so red).

Self portrait with guitar, Philadelphia 2024

Bi-pack bi-chrome image (#4), Seneca 6 5x7, sandwich of ortho-litho, Rosco red filter material, and Foma 100. Single exposure @ 4iso and F64 with strobes. Dev=DD-X 1:9. 

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Bi-color bichrome image that really captures the scene in very nearly the right colors. Unbelievable how close this comes to getting the colors right. A photo looking across the Paper Mill Run at the old bake house at historic Rittenhouse town; a small stone building with yellow painted windows and trim.

A cell phone photo showing the Seneca 6 set up on the bridge over the creek, in the setup used to take the preceding picture. Posted here to show how closely the bichrome colors match real life!

Bake House (1725), Historic Rittenhouse Town, Philadelphia 2024

Bi-pack bi-chrome image, Seneca 6 5x7, ortho-litho for B/G, Foma 100 through Rosco red filter for R. Single exposure @ 5iso. F64 for 8s. DD-X 1:9. 

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A color photo, but made from only two color channels. The image shows a historic church building at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. The image is strongly tinted toward blues and reds.

Schaeffer-Ashmead Memorial Chapel
 (1905), Mt Airy, Philadelphia 2024

Bi-pack bi-chrome image, Seneca 6 5x7, ortho-litho for B/G, Foma 100 through Rosco red filter for R. Single exposure @ 5iso. F64 for 4s. DD-X 1:9. 

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A color image made from just two channels, an orthochromatic film recording the b/g and a panchromatic film recording the red channel through a red filter. But it’s all loaded into a single holder and exposed at the same time. It’s loaded as a sandwich: ortho,red filter, panchromatic. The result is a weird quasi color image. This first try ended up under exposed and a little under dev’d for the ortho, but it worked! The image is of the art deco front facade of the old Sedgwick movie theater, now home of the quintessence theatre group.

The Sedgwick Theater (1928), Mt Airy, Philadelphia 2024

Bi-pack bi-chrome image, Seneca 6 5x7, ortho-litho for B/G, Foma 100 through Rosco red filter for R. Single exposure @ 12iso. F64 for 8s. DD-X 1:9.

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