by Cassie Floan
For a photography class final, I traveled around North Carolina and Kentucky to take pictures of old churches. The images were shot in black & white, and had a bit of a harsh edge to them. To soften them a bit, I used an old process called "bromoil."
A bromoil print is a photographic image created by bleaching and tanning a black-and-white photograph, then soaking the bleached print (or matrix) in water before applying lithographic ink, usually by brush. The tanning and soaking processes cause the matrix to repel ink from the highlights while allowing ink to build-up proportionally in the midtones and shadows, creating a pigment-based version of the original image. In short, it creates a very old-looking photograph with lots of character.
Click on any small image to see a larger version, or just click on the next arrow button to step through the pictures one at a time.
If you have any questions or comments about any of these pictures, please email me.
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