Not very happy with this at all but the joys of cyanotype means that there are one or two to choose from. I also don't want to do a lot of processing as it's from a 35mm neg and the quality isn't great to start.
@gwhit123
It's two chemicals mixed together, ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide - you coat ordinary paper and dry. Then expose it under a UV light source with a negative. The UV light hardens the exposed areas. You the develop in water and the unhardened areas are washed out. This is how the original blueprints were made. It can be done in sunlight but we don't get enough and it's not the most sensitive so can take a while.
If you were wanting to try an alternative process this is the one I'd recommend to start as the chemicals are cheap, stable and coat loads of paper. Hope that explains it. I'd have made a larger negative with a digital file on inkjet film but wanted to do it with a film neg for film feb :)
@gwhit123 Thanks George but I'm stuck when it comes to digital :( I still concentrate all my energies on this and would love to get into digital but that;s where there's soooo much to learn so I'm in awe of you with your work! I got a shot of my husbands camera and I tried to twist the lens Aghhhh! Handed it back ......
@frida Thanks Frida, it belongs to my old art teacher and she has the most incredible collection of bottles - all dug up from the beach in front of her house. Jealous!
@ingrid2101 well now I definitively want it! I forgot to say that I love the framing of this shot, so much negative in it. Is that the film or is it you?
So so great, Ingrid! It reminds me of solar prints I used to do with the kids when they were little.
I so enjoy all this work you're doing. Very inspired. Great job
@ingrid2101 I like this image. Nice dreamy quality. I imagine a wall of translucent glass in some elegant restaurant with this image and others applied. Thanks for explanation on cyanotype. All I have is a cyanotype setting in Silver Efex. Now I have some idea of what it tries to mimic;-)
Bloomin eck Ingrid. This is wonderful. Now I want to have a go and although I have developed and printed in the past, I have never heard of cyanotype printing. Thank you for introducing me to something new.
@mizhayz Thank you - everything is blue with this, can get a bit much! @jameshislop I am enjoying it! Just not always happy with results! @wendyhgill@cmc1200 Thank you! @roadshow Thank you Gloria - it's basically the same! @la_photographic@automaticslim@sheilag Thank you ! @staffsknott Thank you Patricia if you can do b&w then this is easy! Chemicals available from Silverprint - cheap and easy! You don't even need a darkroom @studiombkcom Thanks Michael - lovely comment :)
@ingrid2101 Hi Ingrid, Thank you. The nearest I got to an image like this was when I made a pinhole camera with an empty can of larger and then developed the film in the usual method. But I can't wait to have a go at your method, I am always up for something different and unusual.
This looks so beautiful Ingrid - love the grain and the cyanotype tones. Love that you left the sides of the film on - it frames the shot beautifully. You have such wonderful knowledge and skills of these film processes - cant wait to see the next one! :) fav
It's two chemicals mixed together, ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide - you coat ordinary paper and dry. Then expose it under a UV light source with a negative. The UV light hardens the exposed areas. You the develop in water and the unhardened areas are washed out. This is how the original blueprints were made. It can be done in sunlight but we don't get enough and it's not the most sensitive so can take a while.
If you were wanting to try an alternative process this is the one I'd recommend to start as the chemicals are cheap, stable and coat loads of paper. Hope that explains it. I'd have made a larger negative with a digital file on inkjet film but wanted to do it with a film neg for film feb :)
@annethomson Than you Anne !
just art, but I used a film camera off and on, it was the days before digital
I so enjoy all this work you're doing. Very inspired. Great job
@jameshislop I am enjoying it! Just not always happy with results!
@wendyhgill @cmc1200 Thank you!
@roadshow Thank you Gloria - it's basically the same!
@la_photographic @automaticslim @sheilag Thank you !
@staffsknott Thank you Patricia if you can do b&w then this is easy! Chemicals available from Silverprint - cheap and easy! You don't even need a darkroom
@studiombkcom Thanks Michael - lovely comment :)