David Krooshof

• Restoring a 3D photo viewer

  A century old viewer needed some repairs. I took the liberty to tune it to my own eyes and face.

• A Classic Street Camera

  A large format camera with a built in darkroom to develop the paper in. It was used on the streets to make photos for official documents. There is a character to this method, and a specific social aspect, and therefor there are artistic possibilities.

• A Contact Printer and an Exponential Darkroom Clock

  Getting a pre-war contact printer in modern working condition, and why I built my own exponential darkroom clock.

• Direct Color Positives

  Shoot a sheet of paper as the medium in a camera, then develop that so that it becomes a color photo.

• Making a bass fretless

  I wanted to play fretless bass for so long. This is how I converted a vintage fretted bass, under Pelle's guidance, and why.

• Dark Trails

  You have seen light trails. I want to record trails like these, but of bats. But how do I get dark animals to leave a trail? What if I want to do this at dusk?
  While figuring out how to record bats, the local jackdaws kept flying through the frame, and they became my test pilots.

• A Posing Sensitive Guitar

  Guitar players do all sorts of movements with their guitars, that, unless you are really feedbacking hard in front of a large amp, does next to zero to your guitar sound. I decided I want these movements to actually matter, so I made something that could use these gestures in the sound.

• My First IR Cameras

  About converting a little camera to shoot infrared. With lots of nice pictorialistic images. And one of my best photos is included here too, if you ask me.

• Sunlit Infrared

  About converting a camera to infrared and shooting with it, in sunlight.

• View Camera Photography

  Some musings about the most cameralike looking cameras ever. And images, mostly of people’s faces, shot with wooden cameras onto large sheets of film.

• Recording somebody's security cam

  Analog radiographic surveillance cameras used to simply broadcast all their sound an images unscrambled. One day I recorded myself playing harmonica via a somebody's security camera that was filming the street in front of their garage.

• Tuning

  A lot of what I do to music instruments, has to do with my sense tuning. Here are a few of those projects.