My alternative printing process infatuation started a little over a year ago with the first foray into cyanotypes. I loved it, I spent hours in the lab cranking out cyanotypes, but relatively quickly moved on to things like ziatypes and gum bichromates.
There are times I loved the cyanotype blue, but many times where I thought it didn’t fit the image…or something like that. And it was a binary process, in my head, without the infinite variability of other techniques. Or so I thought.
Now we’ve ventured into cyanotype toning, and…my “hey I gotta try XYZ” list just exploded, again.
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Here is a before/after comparison:
Aside from the now more-infinite possibilities the various toning methods provide, it seems, so far at least, as if they aren’t even inherently consistent. So as soon as I can get to it I need to make some more cyanotype prints and get busy dunking them in tannic acid, sodium carbonate, Borax, and lead acetate.
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