The Ferroblend Process

[Andrew O'Neill]

I made a video showing my workflow...



Link to Photrio Ferroblend thread

 

[Raghu Kuvempunagar]

Great demonstration of the process, Andrew! Adequately detailed and immensely useful. It is certainly something I wish I had available to me when I got started. Thanks.

 

[Theodor Bader]

How lightsensitiv is this ferrolbland?

I wonder how light-sensitive this method is? More so than cyanotype methods (traditional and new)?

Is an in-camera application conceivable?

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

How lightsensitiv is this ferrolbland?

I wonder how light-sensitive this method is? More so than cyanotype methods (traditional and new)?

Is an in-camera application conceivable?

The inventor of the process @Raghu Kuvempunagar would be able to answer this better than me...but even if you could do it, why would you want a ferroblend negative?

 

[Raghu Kuvempunagar]

How lightsensitiv is this ferrolbland?

I wonder how light-sensitive this method is? More so than cyanotype methods (traditional and new)?

In the same ball park as Cyanotype.

Is an in-camera application conceivable?

No, at least as far as I can see. For FerroBlend, Ferricyanide needs to be present in the sensitiser which invariably slows down the exposure. Even Cyanotype isn't really useful for in-camera application unless one keeps Ferricyanide out from the sensitiser (as done in Cyano-Rex type processes).

 

[Theodor Bader]

Thanks for your answers!

The idea of using cyano-blend comes from me and my Facebook page "The Fascination of Black and White Negatives," which so far only shows black and white negatives. I myself only have one in-camera cyanotype print so far.