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This is part of a project for my Adv Photography II. The three projects I proposed for the semester all involved handmaking silk, bamboo, and soy silk paper. The three processes I decided to use were polaroid lifts, vandyke brown, and cyanotype.
This is a cyanotype I did a few days ago and I'm really pleased with how it turned out. I had to make all the chemicals for both the cyanotype and vandyke brown processes and :giggle: I thought for sure I screwed them up but nope they came out just fine! :w00t: I did two vandyke browns yesterday and I'm not very pleased with them as the contrast is not nearly as nice and the images are not dark enough. I think I will need to expose them outside for longer and maybe make my negatives more contrasty.

Made on processed silk fiber. (the others are bamboo)


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Purchased Processed Fiber (Bamboo, Tussah Silk, and SoySilk)
Used a Process called Silk Fusion
Created Digital Negatives with Pictorico Premium OHP Transparency Film
Purchased chemicals for Cyanotypes and Vandyke browns. I mixed each set of chemicals and applied the emulsion to the paper. After the paper was dry I overlayed the digital negatives over the paper and exposed them to UV light from the sun outside. :)
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~DanStefan Jul 21, 2008   Photographer
nice series
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~TreLore May 8, 2008
Beautiful

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~drawnfreak Apr 24, 2008
wow it looks like you got really nice tones out of your cyanotypes! I wish I had the time (&money) for more alt processes.

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~x-Falcon-x Apr 21, 2008  Hobbyist Photographer
Thats freakin amazing i love the wrinkled look

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~fax Apr 20, 2008  Hobbyist General Artist
Very nice! Thats a interesting method for making prints.
Anywho, Keep up the great work!

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$ewm Apr 20, 2008  Hobbyist Photographer
Thankie Fax :hug:

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~firefly-reaper Apr 19, 2008
What do you use as a fixative so it'll stop developing once you're done? Just the normal stuff in the dark room?

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$ewm Apr 19, 2008  Hobbyist Photographer
The vandyke brown requires a special fixer and the cyanotype just requires a nice long wash no fixing needed. :)
At the bottom of my description I put links to all the processes and there is a link to both the vandyke and cyanotype process that describe how it all works. Both processes require UV light to work so they are excellent summer projects. The only downside to these processes is mixing the chemicals and yes they are toxic :paranoid: but its a lot of fun to work on.

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~Gasflame Apr 19, 2008
Wow thats amazing!

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$ewm Apr 19, 2008  Hobbyist Photographer
Thankie :) When I first thought of the idea of making prints on silk paper I wasn't sure how good of a response I would get to the work as it is something totally different than the norm in photography. I'd love to continue making more. ^_^

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