Cyanotype over Palladium

Very nice one. How do you do the registration of the neg ?
G.

Guillaume - I originally thought this was going to be one of the problem issues. Turns out it is pretty easy. The one concern is potential paper shrinkage after the first washing process with palladium. If you pre-shrink your paper first by soaking about an hour in warm water and letting it dry, the washes after that won't shrink much more at all. This was done on bergger 320 paper which did noticeablly shrink up with the pre-soak.

After the Palladium print was done, you coat with Cyanotype which turns to be pretty transparent when dry. By overlaying the negative on top of the Palladium print, you don't have to register the image at all - only the outside edges of the negative. If the negative is not in register, you will see little clear lines on the side(s) of the negative that you need to shift the over towards. Try it with on of your currrent Pt/Pd prints. Even though you will probably see the size differences due to paper shinkage, you can see how simple it is. I just then used a little scotch tape on one edge to hold it in place.

Dan

Thank you Dan

Really nice image & thanks for your tips on registration.

Dan, I see what you mean. Very nice image.

Jim