Over the years of my experiments, I have made several cyanotypes. I will put one in my notes here later. What I love about captors is the simplicity of painting emulsion onto paper and then sandwiching the mesh or object and then just going out and putting in the sun for a few minutes. It is a lovely process.
Wonderful article - I love your self portrait series. In addition to cyanotype, I've made salt prints, van dyke browns, kallitypes and wet plate collodion. Just wrote a post on a kallitype project I did a few years ago.
Hello Paul. Thank you for reading and thank for your kind words!
I'm passionate about traditional processes, so it's great to see other artists and photographers on here who practice them as well. I'm looking forward to reading your post about your project.
Cyanotypes are fun. I also love Chemigrams. Trying out these "old" techniques gives me a greater appreciation for the works done 100 or more year ago. And I love the hands-on experience compared to the all digital approach. Love your self-portraits!
This is such a great article and always love reading your work.
Herschel’s is a negative not positive note the skin and hair which would have been opposite
Herschel would have possibly used a paper print -similar to Henri Fox Talbot’s calotypes, these were thin and could have been left for a long period to expose.
You can use paper and tracing paper for contact printing, which are more sustainable than acetate
I have no idea what Herschel used. I may need to dig deeper with my research.
I’ve seen some of your gum dichromate work on your site, but I haven’t seen many photographers use that process. I’ve only created a few, but I would like to experiment further.
Over the years of my experiments, I have made several cyanotypes. I will put one in my notes here later. What I love about captors is the simplicity of painting emulsion onto paper and then sandwiching the mesh or object and then just going out and putting in the sun for a few minutes. It is a lovely process.
Wonderful article - I love your self portrait series. In addition to cyanotype, I've made salt prints, van dyke browns, kallitypes and wet plate collodion. Just wrote a post on a kallitype project I did a few years ago.
Hello Paul. Thank you for reading and thank for your kind words!
I'm passionate about traditional processes, so it's great to see other artists and photographers on here who practice them as well. I'm looking forward to reading your post about your project.
Cyanotypes are fun. I also love Chemigrams. Trying out these "old" techniques gives me a greater appreciation for the works done 100 or more year ago. And I love the hands-on experience compared to the all digital approach. Love your self-portraits!
This is such a great article and always love reading your work.
Herschel’s is a negative not positive note the skin and hair which would have been opposite
Herschel would have possibly used a paper print -similar to Henri Fox Talbot’s calotypes, these were thin and could have been left for a long period to expose.
You can use paper and tracing paper for contact printing, which are more sustainable than acetate
Thanks for reading, Emma. And thanks for filling in the gaps in my Herschel knowledge.
I have no idea what Herschel used. I may need to dig deeper with my research.
I’ve seen some of your gum dichromate work on your site, but I haven’t seen many photographers use that process. I’ve only created a few, but I would like to experiment further.
The point is that Hershel would have needed a photograph before photography to do that cyanotype; never saw that image before,
Gum (dichromate) print is more laborious and less practiced. More painting like that cyanotype.
You can see works by early photographers in the times of pictorialism. Steichen for instance. Or the French Demachy.
Rarely contemporary artists
Interesting 🤨 Just intrigued, what kind of positive transparency did Mr Herschel used for that print? Yes, I do cyanotype and gum dichromate prints