Project 6 - Alternative Process Through Digital Means

Prework

Wet Plate Collodian: A complicated process where you need a portable darkroom. This process requires that the photographic material be coated, exposed, sensitized and developed. All within the span of about 15 minutes. This is a photo taken by Alex Timmerman and it can be found here.

Cyanotype: A cyanotype is a process that uses blue or cyan paint. This process was used early in the 20th century as an easy way to produce copies of drawings. These were often referred to as blue prints, and they were the best low cost way t make copies of something. The process used potassium ferricyanide and iron (III) citrate. This is an example of a cyanotype, taken by Alessandra Hull, and it can be found here.

Gum Bichromate: Gum bichromate is a printing process that was used in the 19th century that relied on light sensitivity of dichromates. Gum printing is usually a process of many colors being painted onto the photo. Any colors can be used for gum printing, so it is possible to make photos that appear natural through this process. This photo was taken by Jim Larimer, and you can find more here.

Project

This is my first cyanotype and I didn't put in a texture for the background because the grass has a lot of depth and texture and I didn't want to take away from that because it helps the picture appear more visually appealing.

This is another cyanotype I made, but this one I used a different color of blue and put a texture on the background. I really like how this turned out and what parts of the brushes you can see here, it looks like paint has been rolled on and I'm really pleased with how it looks.

This is my last cyanotype that I like, I put a texture and it gave the picture significantly more depth and gave the edges a bit of a more antique look.

This is a wet plate. For this one, I put a very subtle light border so that you can barely see. It works very well with the texture because you almost cannot see the difference and I was trying to blend them really well.

This is a gum bichromate, meaning that I layered different colors over it. I liked how this one turned out because it almost doesn't look completely real and looks cartoonized, and you can only see the outline of the trees. I also like what the certain colors highlighted.

This is my last gum bichromate and I like how this one turned out a lot more than the other ones, the colors are a lot more subtle and it looks like it has a filter with some colors around the edges.

This is what I made using various brushes, I found some paint splotches and I really liked how they looked so I got more and I ended up making this abstract painting with some interesting texture in the background. I think the colors really make this pop.