Automotive Photography
18th of October 2011 (Tue), 13:07
One of the things I do miss about working in the darkroom is the hands on approach to creating prints.
Recently I decided to try to get back into to some alternative photography pieces. Starting with the most simple of them all, the Cyanotype. I remember in college the very long and methodical process to create the negatives for some of these alt processes, that part I don't miss. So, I took advantage of the ability to make my own negatives from digital photographs. It really simple.
Take a digital image, turn it into a B&W, adjust contrast, burn, dodge etc. to make a high contrast image.
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u354/RG-Photography/web-1.jpg
Then make your negative. In this case a simple command of "Invert" in Photoshop does the trick. I left some parts of the image positive and other negative.
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u354/RG-Photography/web-2.jpg
Some negatives I made, just weren't high contrast enough so, through trial and error process, I went back and re-worked them in photoshop and reprinted on my printer. I drained my ink cartridge on making some of these. Such is life.
Here is the result.
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u354/RG-Photography/modifiedford-2.jpg
Other digital cyanotypes.
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u354/RG-Photography/34-Cyanotype.jpg
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u354/RG-Photography/cyanotype-3.jpg
painted with watercolor.
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u354/RG-Photography/cyanotype-3-1.jpg
I'd love to see other peoples cyanotype creations.
Recently I decided to try to get back into to some alternative photography pieces. Starting with the most simple of them all, the Cyanotype. I remember in college the very long and methodical process to create the negatives for some of these alt processes, that part I don't miss. So, I took advantage of the ability to make my own negatives from digital photographs. It really simple.
Take a digital image, turn it into a B&W, adjust contrast, burn, dodge etc. to make a high contrast image.
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u354/RG-Photography/web-1.jpg
Then make your negative. In this case a simple command of "Invert" in Photoshop does the trick. I left some parts of the image positive and other negative.
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u354/RG-Photography/web-2.jpg
Some negatives I made, just weren't high contrast enough so, through trial and error process, I went back and re-worked them in photoshop and reprinted on my printer. I drained my ink cartridge on making some of these. Such is life.
Here is the result.
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u354/RG-Photography/modifiedford-2.jpg
Other digital cyanotypes.
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u354/RG-Photography/34-Cyanotype.jpg
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u354/RG-Photography/cyanotype-3.jpg
painted with watercolor.
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u354/RG-Photography/cyanotype-3-1.jpg
I'd love to see other peoples cyanotype creations.