Re: Cyanotype with high school students

[jneuhauser@wavecable.com]

I taught the darkroom for years and we made great enlarged 
negatives with the APS film from Freestyle, its a litho 
film that can be developed in dektol 1:2-1:7 to get a full 
scale image.  First you get a positive from the 35mm neg 
then contact print the positive to get a negative.  The 
students loved the process.  Way faster than paper negs 
and they always come up with creative ways to use the 
positive and negatives.

Janet
> I tried again today. (I also teach high school 
> photography, only I teach the wet kind) I was able to get 
> OK prints, although the exposure time was extremely long. 
> The transparency version was much quicker and snappier. 
> Since I have 180 beginners, I don't think I'll spring for 
> the transparencies.
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> On the plus side, the generic Sax 140 lb watercolor held 
> a great blue without staining, even with a little acid in 
> the wash.
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> From: henk thijs <henk.thijs@hetnet.nl>
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Sent: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 9:29 am
> Subject: Re: Cyanotype with high school students
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> On 29 jan 2008, at 3:52, RHobbs3@aol.com wrote:
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> Have you tried using paper negs?
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> Did you ???? ? I ?never had a good result with paper 
> negs for cyanotype; for oil-printing and gum it was ok 
> for me, but cyanotypes ....
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