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[bhillier]

Looking for inspiration to teach alt processes to College students

 

[cliveh]

Looking for inspiration to teach alt processes to College students

The easiest and safest alternative process for studends is cyanotype. For health and safety reasons their are quite a few that you should avoid.

 

[Alex Benjamin]

Welcome to Photrio, @bhillier ! There's lots of people who do alt process here, so you'll no doubt find the inspiration you're looking for.

 

[bhillier]

The easiest and safest alternative process for studends is cyanotype. For health and safety reasons their are quite a few that you should avoid.

Yes, we teach Cyanotypes. But looking to add Lith printing and Palladium. Also, B&W film development and silver printing. Maybe Polaroid transfer too. Zebra dry plates look like fun.

 

[koraks]

Welcome aboard @bhillier ! I find that simply browsing / following the threads on this forum offers a lot of inspiration. For instance, check out @Raghu Kuvempunagar's recently introduced Ferroblend process: https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/the-ferroblend-process.215995 It would be very suitable as an extension to your existing cyanotype classes.
I think there's lots of interesting stuff happening in the territory of direct pigment prints using binders like PVA and also plant-based proteins. Might be worthwhile looking into. Or maybe something like Zerochrome SbQ or Calvin Grier's Printmaker's Friend, which is ready to go out of the bottle.

 

[MattKing]

Have you seen Photrio moderator @Andrew O'Neill 's YouTube channel?
Found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/andy8x10

 

[mshchem]

Welcome to Photrio

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

@bhillier I taught Alt. as well as good old gelatin silver to high school students, and quite enjoyed it... although high schoolers can present certain challenges. College should be easier, as they chose to be there. For Alt. I taught Cyanotypes, and Gum. Yes, we used dichromates, but all precautions were taken. I taught them to handle/use it safely, always under my supervision. I also taught Vandykes. We used a hybrid workflow, either shooting on 35mm, and with DSLR's, and made digital inkjet negatives (I made the digital negs, while they watched...Too much of a learning curve, and not enough time in a semester!)For gelatin silver work, we had a well stocked darkroom, with 10 LPL enlargers. That was a full on unit, taking up about half of the semester. If you can get your hands on a beater LF camera (I got a couple of them donated to us), you could get yourself a box of XRAY film, and contact print them on gelatin silver, or an Alt. process. XRAY is cheap. I've got heaps of videos on my youtube channel, if you want to see different processes...Sorry, no Lith or Palladium

 

[Sirius Glass]

Welcome to Photrio!

 

[MTGseattle]

It's been almost 30 years since I was in the old college darkroom, I'm trying to remember how my professor decided what would work for the whole class, and what would work as small group stuff.
I think Lith could cause a bottle neck in a group darkroom.
My professor did Carbon printing as an extra-curricular "workshop" it was after regular school hours and planned a few months out.
I wish you success with an arts program, it seems like a lot of schools are unwilling to kick any money into that sort of thing.

 

[Raghu Kuvempunagar]

Welcome aboard @bhillier ! I find that simply browsing / following the threads on this forum offers a lot of inspiration. For instance, check out @Raghu Kuvempunagar's recently introduced Ferroblend process: https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/the-ferroblend-process.215995 It would be very suitable as an extension to your existing cyanotype classes.

Thank you for the shout out.

@bhillier: A partial list of processes that you can read and get inspired in this forum:

Experiences with 365nm UV flashlight for Cyanotype.

Out of curiosity I recently bought a cheap (10 Euro) UV flashlight, it claimed to be 365nm and 30Watt. Not that it matters, I wanted to see if it would have any effect on Cyanotype emulsion or other UV processes. In any case as soon as it arrived I prepared some paper with Cyanotype emulsion for...

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Brownies get the blues – Combining Van Dyke brown and cyanotype – Koraks tinkers

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A New Cuprotype?

Background: I thought it would be a good idea to open a new thread continuing the work started in an another thread started by @Jan de Jong on possibility of a VDB-like process using residual silver content in a depleted fixer...

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Rodolfo Namias' Sepiaprint

I usually put this sort of thing over at f295, but with that site going away soon, I thought I'd put a copy here too, where it can safely wait in case someone in the future is interested in this process. I'm not aware of anyone making these today, although the formula is on the brown print...

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14x17 Gum Over Cyanotype

Dragged my 14x17 over to Riverview grounds, to photograph some ultra-large format pinholes images on XRAY film, of the Centre Lawn Bld, and a bush that I affectionately call, Cousin It. It took me almost three weeks to complete this video, due to factors beyond my control... Anyway, at the end...

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Cuprous chloride (CuCl) prints made with a UV enlarger

Hi all, long time "lurker" here, I guess it's finally time to post something... It's gonna be a long post. What prompted me was the other thread about Svinotypes, but, though related in principle, I think my stuff fits better here. Over the last couple weeks I wound up finding a way to...

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Demonstration of Hippolyte Bayard's Direct Positive Process

I’ve been exploring Hippolyte Bayard’s direct positive process and made this short video demonstrating some initial tests on unsized paper (Rives creme). I thought some folks here might find it interesting. Hope you enjoy.

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Mortensen's Paper Negative Process

Introduction I've enjoyed this process ever since I first read about it on Dick Sullivan's Carbon Works blog. The Carbon Works blog is no longer online, but I had a saved copy, so I contacted Dick and asked if I could reproduce it here so that...

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Svinotype: A Photographic Process Using Easily Available Reagents

Found this interesting article that describes a copper-based photographic process called Svinotype: https://seos.fr/blog/doc/acs.jchemed.0c00467.pdf The process is based on "the reaction between copper sulfate and ascorbic acid with the addition of a small quantity of alkali." Here is a video...

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On the Toning of Cyanotypes

I recently started up making cyanotypes again after a hiatus of about twelve years. Although I enjoy the Prussian blue of the native cyanotype, I also enjoy the variety of tones made available by further treating a cyanotype to alter its tone. However, one of the things I was dissatisfied with...

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