Re: what I've learned about cyanotype thru PDN

Thanks for posting this, Charles.
I never double coated because I trusted Don Bryant's test from a couple
years back which said it didn't make enough of a difference.
Your page loaded fine, and quick for me.
Question: what were your exposure times for the four? Or, 2:1 vs 1:1? Did
you do a side by side test of all four at the same exact time? I love the
side by side grid comparison. It's a "quick read".
I am exposing my 2:1 for 6 minutes under UV, single coat. It is a beautiful
deep thalo color, and not at all flat. I can send you a scan offlist (don't
have a website yet up and running)
Chris

> I've always used cyanotype at 1:1 and always double coated. These
> recent comments led me to test single coating and the 2:1 ratio. I have
> concluded that though each of the four posibilities would require its own
> curve (my tests were all done with a curve I made for 1:1 double coating)
> each would probably make excellent prints.
> I'm going to do a new curve for 1:1 single coating and will let you
> know
> of my results.
> You can view the test I did here
> http://home.comcast.net/~cryberg/index.html
>
> WARNING I know even less about HTML than I do about alt photography so
> this page is not yet optomized for speed. If you have a dial-up
> connection
> it probably will be too slow for you, though I would appreciate it if
> someone would tell me how slow it is--not to the second how much of the
> page
> loaded in the first minute or some such comment.
> Charles Portland Or
>
>
Received on Sun Jun 5 21:03:50 2005