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Here are the questions.
What advice can you offer someone like me who is just starting out?
What guidelines do you set for yourself when taking a photo that you intend
to
print using the cyanotype process?
In my experience of printing with the cyanotype process, I found that the
contrast was extreme. How do you achieve the mid-range tones of blue? <
Use a negative that is a bit harder than one for silver gealatine. A
density range of about 1.4 is ideal. Just expose the print until everything
but the white highlights, has reversed or turned a very dark blue. Only
then develop it. This exposure may be half an hour or more.
>What criteria do you use to judge an alternative process final print?
Why should the criteria be any different from those used to judge any other
print in terms of content or success in making appropriate use of the
capabilities of the medium ?
>Have you ever combined processes?
Often. Gum and cynotype is the easiest but remember the all the dichromates
have to be washed away if you are to combine dichromate and silver
processes as dichromate is a silver bleach. Gum platinum is also pretty
easy.
I work with most of the processes from gum through platinum and bromoil to
gravure. but I have not tried Kwik Print.
Terry King