Tag: contact printing

Gum Printing and Other Amazing Contact Printing Processes

Now shipping the 2013 revision of Christina Z. Anderson’s book Alternative Processes Condensed with an extensive gum section.

Posted in category: Books, General alternative processes, Gum bichromates | Other tags: Christina Z. Anderson, cyanotypes, Gum bichromates, gum printing, gum printing and other amazing contact printing processes, platinums, printmaker, sweet introduction |

A Non-Silver Manual: Gum bichromate

The chapter called “Gum bichromate” of Sarah Van Keuren’s book “A Non-Silver Manual: Cyanotype, Vandyke Brown, Palladium & Gum Bichromate with instructions for making light-resists including pinhole photography”.

Posted in category: Books, Gum bichromates | Other tags: A Non-Silver Manual, bas relief, gum arabic, Gum bichromates, gum print, pigment, printing industry, printmaker, Sarah Van Keuren |

A Non-Silver Manual: Enlarged negatives

The chapter called “Enlarged negatives” of Sarah Van Keuren’s book “A Non-Silver Manual: Cyanotype, Vandyke Brown, Palladium & Gum Bichromate with instructions for making light-resists including pinhole photography”.

Posted in category: Books, Negatives | Other tags: 35mm negatives, A Non-Silver Manual, camera negatives, enlarged negatives, film, large format cameras, lith film, medium format negatives, negatives, printmakers, Sarah Van Keuren |

Building a UV printer

Carlo Ponzoni finds the sun quite unreliable and builds his own UV printer.

Posted in category: Darkroom photography | Other tags: Carlo Ponzoni, UV light box |

Lumen prints

Marek Matusz gives us a brief overview of an old camera-less process.

Posted in category: Lumen prints | Other tags: lensless photography, lumen prints, Marek Matusz |

How to make a paper negative from a photograph

You have a photographic negative on paper, from, let’s say a pinhole camera. You want to use it to make cyanotype or other alt. procs, so it needs to be made more transparent… how do you do this?

Posted in category: Negatives, Pinholes | Other tags: beeswax, dry paper towel, hot iron, Malin Fabbri, negatives, paper negative, photographic negative, pinhole, thin layer |

Wet Contact Printing for Paper Negatives

If you’re in the darkroom and have just developed a negative image, from say a pinhole camera. You wonder how to turn it into a positive image. This an easy step-by-step to how.