May 1st, 1960
It was May 1, 1960, 15 years since the end of the war.


Photography analog, digital, fine art prints
Photos on collodion: http://www.kolodium.cz
Contact:
+420 702 147 081
info@jankratochvil.com
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Analog & digital photography, fine art prints.
Photographs on collodion: http://www.kolodium.cz
Contact:
+420 702 147 081
info@jankratochvil.com
A gray cat slinks past a wooden house.
There's something a little intimidating trying to describe.
May 1st, 1960
It was May 1, 1960, 15 years since the end of the war.
Analog photo workshop Třebíč
Photographed on Foma film ISO 400, film expired in 2014. Picture taken: January 2025. Colorized version by automatic colorization in Photoshop. Camera: Stenopeika 4×5″ Lens: Fujinon 180 mm/f 5.6 Developer: Ilford ID 11 Stock
Portrait Photography with a Stenopeika 4×5″ Large Format Camera in a Studio in Třebíč In this blog post, I will share my experiences of shooting a portrait with an analog camera – a large format camera. We did the shooting in our studio in Třebíč. The Shooting Process I used a large format […]
Tintype with Grandfather's Shotgun Enjoy my experiments with the wet collodion process! Check out this tintype test portrait from last weekend and stay tuned for more! In this photograph, I am with a shotgun that my father gave to me. Exposure length 8 […]
Welcome to my blog, where we will explore the world of collodion POP photography together. Today, I will share my experiences of creating and processing negatives, which are the basis for this unique photographic process. This Saturday, I spent an intense effort, during which [...]
Testing a medium format camera on collodion
Taking selfies on collodion is not an easy discipline 🤓 Basically, you have to control your 3 hands or two hands and one leg 🦶🏻Now I admire drummers even more how they can synchronize their hands and legs to make everything work as it should. […]
One of the last steps before finishing the entire work on a handmade photograph is varnishing it, which is actually a protection against degradation. This video is a demonstration of varnishing photographs taken with a medium-format analog Hasselblad camera with an adaptation of a cassette to hold the photographic plate. The technique […]