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What's your favourite alt process?
I'm wondering how many alt process printers are hiding their prints under a bushel... So all you alt process printers, it's time to stand up and be counted: what's your favourite alt process and why?
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I’m a closet alternative processor that simply hasn’t done enough. I intend doing more Cyanotype and Bromoil, both of which I’ve found to be very enjoyable, but have yet to do sufficient to even start to become proficient. Vandyke Brown’s beckon as well, as does platinum.
I brought a 10x8 specifically to produce large negatives for alternative contact processes, so much get it out into the countryside and start snapping. |
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Ian,
I have 'dabbled' over the years with a number of alt processes. The one's I found most satisfying were Salt, Kallitype and Pt/Pl. These give tones that appeal to me. I would really like to do more. I read elsewhere with interest about your Pt/Pl process, I have yet to try it but have recently tried the NA2 method which seems a nice process.
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I love platinum and I'm also planning to do some carbon prints soon. Bromoils have always fascinated me, but I've never seen an original.
I have to admit that the article I wrote on APUG is a bit long in the tooth now. I should probably update it and post it here.
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I have never seen, but would like to see a carbon print 'in the flesh'.
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I hide because I constantly think I can do better. Even when I do upload anything to my flickr account it's under the warning that it's merely a Proof and I rarely get around to printing actually final type prints.
I print cyanotype mostly exclusively these days. Occasional B&W a few times a year (at home, own darkroom) and sending off lots of colour film for dev & prints. I've done Van Dyke Brown before but got told those prints would look better in "my" cyanotype so I don't bother with it any more. |
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I have been meaning to try some alternative processes for a long time and I even bought an old 8x10 monorail camera with alternative processes in mind. May be I will attend a workshop if there are any being held in the UK.
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Platinum and Palladium, thanks to Ian's workshop . One of the reasons I bought an 8"x10" camera. They are capable of producing a long tonal range which seem to have a wonderful 'glow'.
I haven't seen a carbon print for years but they can be quite beautiful. Salt prints are beautiful also, especially the work of Ken Keen.
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Thanks for the tip about workshops.
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