post alternative techniques

[Vaughn]

Nice, P1ot3! Congrats!

How did you avoid a reversed image? I am guessing you did it in the enlargement of the negative rather than doing double transfer.

Vaughn

[p1ot3]

hi Vaughn;

Thanks. You are giving me homework again... I did not reverse negatives nor make double transfer. I'm thinking about this as I'm going to use glass plate negatives. So far, both prints are made as simply transfer from 5x7 negative to (and this is my next success) arches HP paper.

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[Jim Fitzgerald]

Nice, P1ot3! Congrats!

How did you avoid a reversed image? I am guessing you did it in the enlargement of the negative rather than doing double transfer.

Vaughn

The same questions I was going to ask. Also, the clear highlights on the second image. Are you making your own tissue or buying the pre-made?

A bit off topic but still related to alternative printing and especially carbon transfer. I have found that in doing portraits using x-ray film one can soften the image just a bit if you print the negative what would be the wrong way for us carbon printers. I find the effect very pleasing. I have not tried it with regular film to see if I get the same results.

Jim

[GSX4]

Here's a wet plate image made yesterday using a newly made wet plate back for my Chamonix 45-N view camera It was my 3rd ever plate....

[p1ot3]

The same questions I was going to ask. Also, the clear highlights on the second image. Are you making your own tissue or buying the pre-made?
Jim

hi Jim;

i made my own tissue, with sumi ink and watercolort paint (not enough ink at home).

p.

[Vaughn]

hi Jim;

i made my own tissue, with sumi ink and watercolort paint (not enough ink at home).

p.

Not putting emulsion to emulsion does soften the image significantly -- and if done with glass plates, the softening will be even greater since the distance from one emulsion to the other will be greater due to the thickness of the glass. The light source does come into play also (less softening with a point light source than a diffuse light source) as does how tightly the two are held together (vacuum frames giving the greatest possibility of sharpness.)

[p1ot3]

just cyanotypes;
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[p1ot3]

i can not edit my posts, so i have deleted one of attachments from earlier post using control panel and add its carbon version in this new post.
p.

[evan clarke]

Gandolfi- my turn to be jealous. Gravures for me are THE process. Wish I could find a reasonable press and get started. What a fantastic image.

Hey Andrew, it's a 5x12. I haven't started enlarging negatives for carbon yet. But a 10x24 carbon could be pretty cool.

Yes, the press is the issue...EC

[csant]

Finally spring…

Gum bichromate over cyanotype, four layers with one negative:
cyanotype, lemon yellow deep, rose madder genuine, terre verte.

Some more info and bigger image over at Flickr.