These turned out beautifully. Can you say more about how you toned these prints? And I really like your presentation. The (cherry?) wood frames really compliment the color of the toned cyanotypes nicely. Are these under glass with spacers?
These turned out beautifully. Can you say more about how you toned these prints? And I really like your presentation. The (cherry?) wood frames really compliment the color of the toned cyanotypes nicely. Are these under glass with spacers?
Very beautiful in every way, congrats!Got 6 of my toned cyanotypes framed for a darkroom/alt-process exhibition next weekend, really pleased how they turned out.
Oh and I just realised I forgot to answer your other questions. The frames are oak stained to a colour called 'Rimu' (a New Zealand native tree). The prints have a light wax coating (Dorland's wax medium) and are framed without any glass. I went for no glass for two reasons, first to keep costs down as I think the audience is going to be fairly price-sensitive, second because I don't know what the lighting is going to be like where these will be displayed and I didn't want to risk any annoying reflections or loss of contrast.
If anybody does buy one they can always have them re-framed with some glass, there's a spacer in the frame already so they could just insert a glass sheet in front and leave everything else as it is.
Please come back here with a report on how your 'no glass' experience went. I'm no fan of how any type of glazing puts a barrier between print and viewer.Oh and I just realised I forgot to answer your other questions. The frames are oak stained to a colour called 'Rimu' (a New Zealand native tree). The prints have a light wax coating (Dorland's wax medium) and are framed without any glass. I went for no glass for two reasons, first to keep costs down as I think the audience is going to be fairly price-sensitive, second because I don't know what the lighting is going to be like where these will be displayed and I didn't want to risk any annoying reflections or loss of contrast.
If anybody does buy one they can always have them re-framed with some glass, there's a spacer in the frame already so they could just insert a glass sheet in front and leave everything else as it is.
@Franswa , there is also the practice of adding Pt/Pd to Kallitype sensitiser, discussed in some references, in the ratio 1:10 IIRC. It could be a route to achieve split tones, I've not tried though.
Very, very nice image and print, Franswa. I love the composition and your print is absolutely perfect. Bravo!
Beautiful print @Franswa! Did you develop this print in Sodium Acetate? The neutral tone is quite nice.
Lovely image, I like the (what appears to my eye) neutral tone, did you tone this with gold or palladium?
A solitary cypress....
Very nice!
Beautiful! So this is a combination toning?
Another toned cyanotype. I can never really be sure what I'm going to get with this process, like this time the paper took up quite a brown stain which doesn't always happen, but I'm happy with the results.
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Dmax? Now that is a flex…
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