Archive | December, 2010

Demonstrations of cyanotype coating, exposure, and tea toning

Here’s a demo of how to mix a cyanotype mixture, coat paper with it, and expose it. The person that made the video sandwiched a negative over a UV light source.

Here is another source also printing with cyanotype:

To round this all out, here is a person working with cyanotype cloth with tea toning, first bleaching and then toning her print.

Some inspiration – video of the work of French photographer, Robert Doisneau

I found this video of some of the photographs of the great French photographer, Robert Doisneau. There is no commentary, but I liked the music. Nice relaxing inspirational start to the day after Christmas.

Click here for Robert Doisneau resources on Amazon

Jason Brunner’s video on bellows extension compensation

In this video, Jason Brunner explains, in his usual offbeat manner, how he uses his super friggin cool bellows factor compensator thingie to calculate bellows extension compensation. Here are the resources on Jason’s website if you’d like to download the pdf.

As a bacon lover, I had to watch it and pass it on.