This is a double experiment. I wanted to see what one of my landscapes looked like as a Cyanotype, and to make it even more interesting, I picked a pinhole original. This one was made with a Zero 2000 pinhole camera on 120 Neopan 400 film. Of course, the original was square, but I wanted to use all of the negative film sheet, and so had to crop it to 11″x17″.
Great to see your pinhole work printed as cyanotype – a very impressive landscape print. I really do think pinholes and cyanotype/platinum make a great match. I’m attending an alternative process workshop later this month so hope to post some cyanotypes soon.
Thanks!!! and that is great – I would be interested in finding out what you learn about Cyanotypes!
Beautiful print! I just experimented for the first time with Cyanotype in a workshop few months ago and it’s such a fascinating alternative process of photography. It was a bit difficult at home, mostly because of the lack of sunlight and the inadequate characteristics of artificial lighting systems … I’m going to try it again during springtime. I would love to mix working in the darkroom and developing the Cyanotype while I “punish myself” sunbathing a bit ;-)
Thanks Anette – I value your feed-back. Well, combining sunbathing and printing sure sounds like fun. That’s the unfortunate thing about Cyanotypes, if you don’t live in a very sunny climate, it can be very frustrating. Although I am in a sunny location, right now I am using a UV exposure unit, to which I have easy access. At first, I was leery of it, thinking that it would take too long and that my print color would not be as punchy as I like it. That turned out not to be the case. Unfortunately these things are expensive I was wondering is this kind of lamp would work, it is not too expensive:
http://www.amazon.com/NatureBright-SunTouch-Plus-Light-Therapy/dp/B000W8Y7FY/ref=sr_1_1?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1358365528&sr=1-1&keywords=sun+lamp