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As part of a 120mm film day organised by the Stills Democratic Camera Club, we headed to the west of Edinburgh to explore the Cammo Estate. Armed with…
The home made albumen solution has been sitting in the dark for a month now – surprisingly smell free. I re-read my notes on the recipe to discover…
The albumen process uses a layer of egg white for the sensitised salt solution to adhere to. Paper is formed into a ‘boat’ by folding up a margin…
The salt print was invented in 1835 by Talbot. Paper is soaked in a salt solution, dried and then sensitised with a solution of silver salts. Care is…
Strips of 120mm negatives taken with a Holga were placed directly on paper sensitised with VDB. Exposed to sunlight for about 12 minutes.
Van Dyke Brown is a similar process to the Cyanotype (both trialled by Herschel) but with the added step of fixing. A 3 part solution is mixed and…
Having made a series of leaf cyanotype photograms a thin wash of Van Dyke Brown was painted over the print. A further photogram was made over the first…
A lumen print is a contact print made only using sunlight on black and white photographic paper. The image is “burnt” onto the paper and then fixed –…
More tea toning experiments – Normal cyanotype. Short soak in green tea. Short dip in sodium carbonate solution followed by a longer soak in green tea.