Preparing your photogram image for cyanotype printing
An excerpt from Blueprint to cyanotypes: Exploring a historical alternative photographic process. Making photograms in the cyanotype process.
An excerpt from Blueprint to cyanotypes: Exploring a historical alternative photographic process. Making photograms in the cyanotype process.
Elizabeth Graves experiments with Waldack’s Formulas for Collodion Positives “Formula No. 1. For Dead-Whites” followed by a sodium thiosulfate fixer.
Elizabeth Graves recommends some good organizational habits for wet darkroom, alt-process photographers.
Elizabeth Graves satisfies her curiosity about straying from black to explore wet collodion on deep blue plates.
Elizabeth Graves develops another impermanent, non-damaging way to hold thin metal plates in a conventional large format film holder.
Elizabeth Graves remarks on the perils of digital reproduction of analog media in a un-color-calibrated age.
Elizabeth Graves on the mysteries of pricing art for distant shows, what research to do and guidance needed.
From: San Francisco, USA.
Shows: Cyanotypes, Kallitypes, Photopolymer gravures, Vandyke browns, Vandykes over cyanotype and Wet plate collodions.
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Elizabeth Graves on the alt. proc. label on art – loathing it or loving it?
Thoughts from Elizabeth Graves on why new digital imaging technology is often used to imitate the appearance of old, chemical photography.
Elizabeth Graves reviews the first edition of The Impossible Project’s experimental color film, Color Shade First Flush and finds the aged prints resemble color photographs of earlier eras.
The Impossible Project (the IP) has been releasing their re-engineered integral films for use in Polaroid cameras this year, and before trying out any manipulations or lifts, Elizabeth took two versions of their monochrome film for a test drive in a Polaroid 600 camera to view their unique characteristics.
The unlikely story of how Elizabeth Graves built a large format camera, modified film holders by her own design to hold wet plates, mixed collodion chemistry without blowing up her home, used her garage door as a shutter, and (after several adjustments) got her homemade plates into a group gallery show in New York City.
Elizabeth Graves reviews a book of inspiring alternative process images with a surprising emphasis.
Elizabeth Graves picks up the first copy of Diffusion magazine and just loves it.
Elizabeth Graves examines acetic acid development upon classic formula cyanotypes and disprove the myths about developing in vinegar.
Elizabeth Graves interviews Michael Shindler of RayKo Photo Center after the opening of a new a wet plate collodion darkroom/studio for hire.
Elizabeth Graves examines the effects of ageing on the "blue vandyke" process.
Elizabeth Graves instructs us on how to cut a mat for your prints.
Robert Schaefer interviews Malin Fabbri, recently after the publication of the beginners guide to cyanotypes: Blueprint to Cyanotypes.