Topic: Cheap cyanotype

[Francois]

I'm happy!
Yesterday, I went to my favorite Dollar store. When looking through the cheap books and old magazine issues they carry, I found a kids magazine that had a "bonus gift". It was a little black paper envelope with the words "Make photos with water". I thought to myself "Hey, it's just a buck." so I bought it and brought it home. To my surprise, it contained 4 little cards that looked like pre-sensitized cyanotypes!

I tried one today (the sun wasn't great). I took one of my images (shot with my Nikon and extension tubes) and printed it onto acetate with my old Laser  printer, put in a 1920's contact frame and exposed it. I was surprised to even get a result

Now, I have only 3 sheets left since I couldn't find another copy of the magazine nowhere

Here's my 1st attempt at a decent print (heavily adjusted with photoshop)

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[Ron]

Ah, sunprint paper!  Love it.  The North Carolina Museum of Art sells it in their giftshop.  I have some now I want to play around with if I can find where I put it in the darkroom...  Hint - use a small amount of bleach in your water and the blues will strengthen quite a bit.

http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/sunprint/index.html

[Francois]

Thanks for the tip. I'm sure mine didn't get enough exposure since it is probably UV sensitive and it was a very cloudy day. The instructions recommended 5 minutes exposure and I gave it almost 10...

[Ed Wenn]

Ah hah. I love this type of thing. Thanks for posting, Francois.

[Francois]

It is quite some fun. I never realized my old printer had such a strong halftone pattern (It is only 300 dpi)...