Re: VDB On Papyrus
Doug, Thanks for sharing. You're right about the color; it's kind of...blah. Cyanotype seems to be the way to go, since there's not a whole lot of contrast between the VDB image and the background. I had the same problem with pt/pd, but not quite to that extent...which is why I only posted the silhouette image. :) I also had problems coating, since pt/pd emulsions are that wonderful orange color. I had to work fast, because it got to the point where I was relying entirely on the reflection of the wet coating to see what still needed to be covered. One thing I do really like about the VDB that didn't happen with my pt/pd prints (as far as I can tell from a digital capture) is the coating "irregularities", for lack of a better word. The texture of the papyrus really shows through the VDB, whereas with pt/pd it didn't. This gets a little distracting in the shadows, but I really like it in the midtones. Let me know when you get some more cyanotypes done, because I'd love to see them. Camden Hardy camden[at]hardyphotography[dot]net http://www.hardyphotography.net On Wed, November 1, 2006 4:22 pm, Doug Wade wrote: > This is a followup to the notion that the cyanotype color looked very > nice against papyrus, and what would a vandyke look like? > > Well, here's a test I did. It was on a half sheet of not very nice > papyrus, and furthermore in an apparent attempt to win this award for > crappiest technique everybody seems to be contending for I forgot > about it in the water bath. It sat there for at least an hour or two. > Got very thick, took days to dry, and I think bled a bit although > the sheet was already fairly dark. So to photograph it I put it on > top of a fresh sheet just for color comparison. > > One issue I had is that on my first try (this is the second) it was > fairly difficult to get a good coat because the solution color and the > papyrus color are fairly similar and it's hard to tell if you have > good coverage. It also slurped up the fluid quickly and the first few > strokes had much more density than the rest. This one is the result > of using lots of fluid and double coating. Even so... if you spot > some weird density change in a couple places in the image, that's > what's going on. > > One final disclaimer - there's nudity, you might not want to open this > in front of your boss. > > http://www.san-francisco-nudes.com/blogpics/vdbpap1.jpg > > Just looking at the color (which was the point of this whole exercise) > I think it's nice enough but the cyanotype just has that extra > something. So between that and the coating issues I'm going to focus > on cyanotype when I give this another shot, perhaps in a week or two. > > Doug > >
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