post alternative techniques

[Steven Scanner]

So you moved half way into the scan?

You are right. I can see the light of the scanner pass by thrue the lens. Actually, I see it twice, ones for each eye. That's when I move into another pose. Depending on my DPI, the scan is faster or slower. Low DPI, fast scan. High DPI, slow scan.

[Leigh]

I even restarted my computer, and on a different computer and I still see it via the link -- I must be magical!

Hi Vaughn,

I don't know... can't explain it. I just refreshed the page and the first Flatiron image is still missing with that flickr note.

It's possible there's an upstream cache in operation on your ISP. That's certainly not true here, since I'm on Verizon.

Perhaps it's related to the high security implemented on this computer.

- Leigh

[csant]

Platinum print on Kozo paper.

More details and large image over at Flickr.

[csant]

More from my garden…

Platinum print on Kozo paper.

More details and larger image over at Flickr.

[Steven Scanner]

Anthotypes require little more than… flowers.

I'm trying to find more info about anthotype and physautotype. The latter has been pointed out by someone on another forum. I've got an anthotype experiment going on right now, but I think due to the lack of sunlight I have to wait untill summer.
(more info about my anthotype experiment here: http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ad.php?t=86490)

Physautotype is probably my next step. I have to look into that first.
I'm willing to make the compromise in shutter time. For me (for now) it's acceptable to have a day/week/month long shutter time. My homemade camera has got a 80mm diameter lens and focal distance of about 250mm. Plenty of light shining on the ground plate.

I understand that both anthotype and physautotype are not ment to be used as photosensitive plates/sheets directly in a camera. It was used for contact printing. What I'm looking for is a way to take a photograph without the use of exotic chemicals. Suggestions are welcome.

[Peter Mounier]

I even restarted my computer, and on a different computer and I still see it via the link -- I must be magical!

Vaughn

Sometimes I have to hold the "option" key (on a mac) down while refreshing for it to refresh.

Peter

[Vaughn]

More from my garden…Platinum print on Kozo paper.

I like this very much beautiful simplicity. The texyure of the paper seems to part of the image.

Vaughn

Peter -- I'll give it a try

[csant]

I like this very much beautiful simplicity. The texyure of the paper seems to part of the image.

Thank you, Vaughn! The paper is really shine-through thin… When wet, handling it is a nightmare… But once dry, it is of very special beauty…

[Vaughn]

Please excuse my bad typing skills and lack of decent sentence structure!

But do you attach the Kozo to any other substrate to make it easier to handle when wet?

Vaughn

[csant]

But do you attach the Kozo to any other substrate to make it easier to handle when wet?

No, it's just a roughly 9x11" sheet of thin paper, freely floating… I have had a tear or two at the edges, happens usually in the very end, after washing, when trying to lift it out of the water to place it on a drying screen… I should maybe experiment with a sheet of glass slipped under it…