Ruskin House Cyanotype (first ever attempts)

Original photo is here:http://www.apug.org/forum/index.php?media/ruskin-house-8-x10-print.52116/

Negative scanned and printed as 10"x8" on Laser OHP transparency. Then contact printed. I would have liked to have made the bigger negative on film but the cost of 10"x8" sheet film is astronomic just for some experiments making cyanotypes. Also I have no experience exposing or processing sheet film.

Edit: This picture seems to have been improved by a second longer wash. I won't really know until it is dry again. I'm still pleased with it though. The process appears almost miraculous. I am going to try bleaching the other print as it is so overexposed it is essentially useless. If the bleach of the other print is successful I may try to tone it.

Too bad the house is not located in San Francisco...

San Francisco wasn't even founded when that house was built! It is early 18th Century. It's a beautiful house that is in need of a lot of money spent on it. It has had an interesting history and many occupiers. It was once the the meeting place of the local Temperance movement then the home of the Italian Vice-Consul, a private preparatory school and now the headquarters of the British Communist Party!! The don't look after it of course and I am in a state of constant war with them over one thing or another.....noise, failure to maintain the building properly, illegally displaying political signs outside election times etc etc etc.

'Not really a blues guy, but I love that you did this, Svenedin. I remember the initial mono shot & loved it then. Keep going!

Thanks HiHo. It was a lot of fun to make this.

I mention San Francisco because of a song from Maxime le Forestier talking about a blue house:

"C'est une maison bleue, adossee a la colline..."

Ah, OK. Very apt. It is on a hill! However, its political affiliations mean it is now a red house.

Aaah! Red house, a blues from Jimmy Hendricks this time... A lot of "guitar heroes" played it since, kind of a "standard".

Can we post hybrid images now?? If so, I have many.

As far as 8x10 film being astronomic in regards to cost, you can use xray films. Dirt cheap.