Cyanotypes  by 30pics4jackiesdiamond

Cyanotypes

An agapanthus, 2 lavender and wheat ears and pansies.

Cyanotype pigment painted onto watercolour paper and allowed to dry.
Flowers put on the paper and held in place with glass or perspex and left in the sun for 2-3 minutes. Exposed print rinsed in acidified water and running tap water and left to dry.

Need to learn and refine techniques and am excitedly awaiting a book from the library and there's always this website I should/could have used!! https://cyanotype.co.uk/
@casablanca here's a bit more of an insight to cyanotypes
July 11th, 2024  
Oh thanks for this. Will have a proper read tomorrow 👍
July 11th, 2024  
Fabulous results. Maybe the weight of glass would be better than Perspex.
July 11th, 2024  
Oh Jackie ! These are absolutely stunning
July 11th, 2024  
I like each of them, but my fav is lower left. i also like the way you combined them into a collage.
July 11th, 2024  
Beautiful!
July 12th, 2024  
Very cool.
July 12th, 2024  
Fascinating!! Wonderful images.
July 12th, 2024  
Impressive. I must check this out one day fav
July 12th, 2024  
Really lovely result
July 12th, 2024  
Well done, they are stunning! You are a real hands on photographer!
July 12th, 2024  
Interesting, taking photography back to basics, I like it.
July 12th, 2024  
Very cool!
July 12th, 2024  
@aikiuser thsnkyiu, lots to learn!
@nigelrogers light writing with flowers!
@ludwigsdiana nahh I get bored easily and have a good friend who helps amuse me

@amyk thank you, not shown the failures
@onewing it's fun, I've put a link here for you
@taffy thank you

@randystreat it was fun, loads more to learn
@marlboromaam but what to do with them??

Collage design on my phone debbie @shutterbug49
@grammyn thank you so much, it was fun
@wakelys the perspex does buckle
@casablanca and then play along??!!
July 12th, 2024  
These are so lovely. They would make a lovely wall item just as you've shown them here..
July 12th, 2024  
Lovely result.
July 12th, 2024  
These are lovely! You're very talented
July 13th, 2024  
Fantastic! I love seeing what you are experimenting with. This turned out well.
July 15th, 2024  
I'm thinking about you as I attempt the same... failure seems to be haunting me. I have a personal requests; could you attempt to do some sort of glass container with a flower? :-)
August 14th, 2024  
@photohoot I tried glass, but it didn't work well, I think I over exposed it. I wonder how the different density of glass and flowers would go?? I'll give it a try when my next lot of prepered paper comes!!!
August 14th, 2024  
@30pics4jackiesdiamond Exciting! I hope it works. :-)
August 14th, 2024  
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