I thought I'd set this up as a way to show different ways to produce prints and how different presentation can really make an image stand out. Producing a jpeg doesn't need to be the end of the line, and there's more out there than inkjet on gloss. How do you print your pictures and display them? Show off your finest, show what others have done. I want to see photos or scans of prints you've made by any means at all, links to tutorials or the work of others, or anything to show the ways in which prints can be made or images displayed.
I'l start:
Cyanotype
Cyanotype is one of the oldest photographic processes. Using a couple of simple cheap and, easy to handle chemicals you make a light-sensitive solution which you can apply to paper, cotton, or practically any absorbent surface. You don't need a darkroom - just a room with the curtains drawn will do fine. Invert an image in photoshop, print it on a plastic transparency and press it flat against your treated surface. Leave it in the light for a while then rinse under running water and you're left with a deep blue image.
Untitled by the matt1, on Flickr
If blue isn't what you're after, it can be easily toned.
Untitled by the matt1, on Flickr
Full tutorials below for making and toning:
http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/cyanotype/beat-the-blues-making-cyanotypes
http://mpaulphotography.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/cyanotype-toning-the-basics/
I was amazed at just how easy this was to do.
I'm looking forward to seeing what others have done
I'l start:
Cyanotype
Cyanotype is one of the oldest photographic processes. Using a couple of simple cheap and, easy to handle chemicals you make a light-sensitive solution which you can apply to paper, cotton, or practically any absorbent surface. You don't need a darkroom - just a room with the curtains drawn will do fine. Invert an image in photoshop, print it on a plastic transparency and press it flat against your treated surface. Leave it in the light for a while then rinse under running water and you're left with a deep blue image.
Untitled by the matt1, on FlickrIf blue isn't what you're after, it can be easily toned.
Untitled by the matt1, on FlickrFull tutorials below for making and toning:
http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/cyanotype/beat-the-blues-making-cyanotypes
http://mpaulphotography.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/cyanotype-toning-the-basics/
I was amazed at just how easy this was to do.
I'm looking forward to seeing what others have done
