Sizing substrates and papers – survey results
Photographers working actively with alternative photographic processes have shared their experience on which papers they size and which formula they use.
Search Results for: cyanotypes
The newsletter survey
We asked you what you think about our newsletter. 300 of you replied before we closed the survey. Here is what you thought.
Linda Stemer’s cyanotype business
An interview with Linda Stemer, and how she came to be the owner of Blueprint on Fabric, a cyanotype business.
Digital hybrids: A new twist on an old process
Melissa Jolley tells us how she combines digital artwork with historic photographic processes.
Vandyke over cyanotype: a combination process with special effects
Elizabeth Graves examines the effects of ageing on the "blue vandyke" process.
Cyanotype photograms
An extract from Ruth Brown’s book Cyanotypes on Fabric, A blueprint on how to produce… Blueprints!
Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition I
Anthony Mournian from the Photographers’ Formulary reviews the big book of inspiration.
How to mount and mat a print for framing
Elizabeth Graves instructs us on how to cut a mat for your prints.
Pyro, digital negatives and alternative processes
Alex Tymków outlines a method of combining pyro, digital negs and alt. proc.
Interview with Malin Fabbri
Robert Schaefer interviews Malin Fabbri, recently after the publication of the beginners guide to cyanotypes: Blueprint to Cyanotypes.
The digital camera, the cyanotype and grain
Jim Read calibrates his digital camera to make cyanotype printing even better.
Making paper by hand
Anne Storm van Leeuwen outlines a very simpliflied process of making paper. An introduction the old craft of papermaking.
The Big Cyanotype Exposure Survey – take part
The cyanotype is a great way to get started with alternative process, to help beginners figuring out the right exposure time – since they’re different dependent on your climate or where you are based – we are now doing a Cyanotype survey.
‘Forgotten’ processes
These are some of the ‘forgotten’ processes. By that we mean that no one is working and producing new images in this process – at least we haven’t found anyone. But we would be very happy to be proven wrong!
The New Cyanotype – Cyanotype II process
The cyanotype process, also known as the blue print process was invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842 and is still performed today by many darkroom enthusiasts.
Barbara J. Dombach
From: Pennsylvania, USA.
Shows: Cyanotypes, Dry & wet plates, Infrareds, Lumen, Pl/pd, Polaroid.
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Formula overview for Vandyke, Kallitype and Argyrotype
As they are similar in their make-up, many confuse Kallitypes with Vandykes (also called Vandyke Browns) and even Argyrotypes. Wynn White clarifies things for us in this overview. Recipes for the fixer is also included.
Photopolymer printing on a budget
Jim Read proves yet again that – with a little work and a lot of imagination – photographic materials doesn’t have to cost a fortune.
Coating your paper using brushes
This is a how to, what with, what on and how much to use article and though it’s aimed at Cyanotype printers it can be used, with patience with other processes needing coating.