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Vines Over Church – Cyanotype / Palladium Cyanotype printing over palladium/ platinum This is an effective method of using colour to built depth to enrich shadow areas.  Cyanotype over platinum/ palladium attracted photographic artist from 1900. Renowned users were Edward Steichen & Alfred Stiegliz. Edward Steichen’s Jean Simpson in Profile 1923 cyanotype over Palladium/Platinotype has attracted photographic artist practitioners since William Willis’s[…]

Spirits Mordançage  The Mordançage process works by chemically bleaching the print so that it can be redeveloped, lifting the black areas of the emulsion away from the paper giving the appearance of veils. The lifted emulsion can be removed or manipulated. Originally called bleach-etch, the process was used to turn film negatives into positives as far back as[…]

Past Travellers – Platinotype: Platinum Palladium Platinotype photographs are distinguished by a matte surface and subtle tonal gradations, the image is embedded in the fibre of the paper.  Because of the tonal range and surface quality of platinum prints, many fine art photographers of the late 19th and early 20th century preferred the process over gelatin silver prints. The[…]

Montana Winter Series #3 – Silver Gelatin About Silver Gelatin: Silver gelatin prints were/are known as the standard contemporary monochrome print. Fibre based papers have been the conventional printing materials and are still recommended for maximum quality and permanence. Gelatin silver process was introduced by Richard L Maddox in 1871, Charles H Bennet in 1878 made considerable improvements in[…]

Spirit Bear Fishing for Salmon – Carbon (Opalotype)  About Opalotypes: Opalotypes are printed on sheets of opaque, translucent white glass. Glover and Bold of Liverpool patented the process in 1857, it was also know as Opaltype and milk glass.  Early opalotypes were sometimes hand-tinted with colours to enhance their effect.  The basic opalotype technique used two basic techniques,[…]