Nearly disastrous experimental Sunday. Tried the caffenol development, please if anyone is going to try do not ask me for advice. Mixing first batch and it started to bubble everywhere - out of the container and all over the kitchen. Second batch was successful, used a larger container but NOTHING, completely blank. After getting some advice on a group it sounds like I need pure Vit. C not the lemon and lime effervescent tubes - oh well you live and learn. Thought then about getting some work done for college. I'd seen images on Flickr about cameraless photography so thought I'd give it a go. Basically the plant is placed on a sheet of photographic paper in sunlight and the moisture from the plant starts a chemical reaction and discolours the paper. It is then fixed in normal fixer.
I'm tagging this for analogue april - i know there's no camera but it must be analogue surely ?
Definitely analogue. Funny about the vit c though, made me chuckle a lot. What a bizarre image which is explained by the production method. Please keep these new tevhniques coming! @bob_the_dog was given a cardboard pinhole for xmas that has been gathering dust. Think we might need to give it a go
@denidouble Thankfully my husband isn't bothered by mess as there's photog stuff everywhere!! @masosy Thank you Kate! I haven't exposed it for long enough but if you ever go on flickr search Lumen and there is some incredible work there :) @vase Yes!! In daylight too, although I nearly forgot when taking paper out of the packet - so simple, I'm going to leave a few outside when I go to work. Just fix it then - I scanned this before fixing as I didn't know if it was going to change colour . Check out Flickr though - some amazing work and folk have toned it after - more supplies needed!! @wendyhgill Thank you Wendy! Glad you like it!
@jacjacs68 Thank you Jackie, so much to try so little time!! @nikolinadimitrova@nikolinadimitrova Thank you Nikolina, I enjoy trying all these things and it fits in nicely with college too!
@rachelwithey Thanks rachel - I think this was about an hour but it's recommended for 3-4 hours some even doing days, definately one I'll do more of as it's so easy! Oh and it seems that different papers go different colours and some people gold tone - so many possibilities. You should search images for Lumen on google and there's some amazing work out there :)
@rachelwithey Oh thank you so much Rachel, they'd love it = I've done photograms with my kids but this one is new to me (today) so will have to try this too. It also takes away some of the 365-orphan guilt as you're spending time creating with them !!
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@masosy Thank you Kate! I haven't exposed it for long enough but if you ever go on flickr search Lumen and there is some incredible work there :)
@vase Yes!! In daylight too, although I nearly forgot when taking paper out of the packet - so simple, I'm going to leave a few outside when I go to work. Just fix it then - I scanned this before fixing as I didn't know if it was going to change colour . Check out Flickr though - some amazing work and folk have toned it after - more supplies needed!!
@wendyhgill Thank you Wendy! Glad you like it!
@nikolinadimitrova @nikolinadimitrova Thank you Nikolina, I enjoy trying all these things and it fits in nicely with college too!