Red Wine Anthotype

This was my first go at making an Anthotype. I used red wine, as it comes in a bottle and tastes good. The exposure took a week in bright sun each day. I wasn't sure how much detail was possible, but I used a negative of a fortune teller that I took in Koh Kret, Thailand. It was an exercise in patience, to be sure.

Lumen print with a negative

I used a digital negative on acetate to try to make a lumen print. It was printed on long expired Fotospeed, double weight, semi matte lith paper which was very fast. The first print was made in about 5 minutes and actually had much higher contrast than the print that was exposed for three hours as the negative did not fully block the highlights.

The original before fixing has a beautiful metallic sheen to it. It is not visible in the scans, and unfortunately it can not be preserved as any light will fade the image before fixing.

The fixed version has a nice rust color.

3D Printing

No, not what you thought.

I curled the paper into a cylinder and the light wrapped and reflected around it as it was exposed.

I like the idea and can imagine many creative possibilities.

"Bondage"

Here is a second try from this morning. I used a water bottle to allow much tighter wrap.

Before development. I love the 3D look of the string!

"Bondage #2". Coffee toned.

First Lumen on 4x5 film

I used the Speed Graphic and Graflix Optar 135mm f4.7 lens. The image was very faint. After fixing the film was almost clear, but the scanner was able to capture the image quite well.

Positive, inversed in Lightroom

Original scan.

Lumens up to now

Ready for a nice frame in the kitchen

Mushrooms, Peanuts and an Egg in Lumenosity

More fruit and veg lumen prints

I think I am in love!

Oranges

Dragon fruit

Snap Peas

Cucumber

Asian lettuce

In Camera Lumen attempt

I think these will disappear in the fixer. But here they are as they came out of the camera. I think they'll need much longer exposures. These were exposed for 1 hour at f5.6.

As I expected, the fixer all but erased the images. I fixed one and tried blue toning the other before fixing. The blue toner just about erased the image, and what was left, disappeared in the fixer.

Here is the one that went straight to the fixer.

ATTEMPT 2

Inspired by Chris McCaw's "Sunburn", I woke up at 5:30am and pointed my homemade 4x5 with Schneider 47mm XL at the sunrise. I was kind of hoping to get a burn through and made a black matte and foam core back for the camera. I'll try sheet film tomorrow.

I'd love to know what that leaf shape next to the path of the sun is. The reason the sun is dotted is from intermittent cloud cover.

Before fixing

After fixing

SECOND ATTEMPT: This time I used the Speed Graphic with Graflix Optar135mm wide open at f4.7.

Chemigrams - Oh Boy!

Now this is EASY!

Just use any photosensitive paper (expired works perfectly). It can be done in the light. You can see what you will get as the first chemical is applied.

Just dip an object (or brush) into the first chemical, add to the paper and then finish with the normal development process.

Add developer first for a black on white print. Developer, stop bath fixer.

Add fixer for a white on black print. Fixer, developer, stop bath, fixer.

Palm leaf dipped in developer.

Fixer first, front of leaf

Developer first, back of leaf

Blue toned chemigram

Future Endeavors - (Living Document)

On this post, I will list processes I want to try in the future.

I love Chris McCaw's work titled Sunburn. I purchased his beautiful book and have been wanting to try something similar ever since. He puts negatives in large format cameras and takes long exposures of the sun moving across various landscapes. The negatives are not processed, they are created like a Lumen Print with the light affecting the negative directly.

I'd like to avoid burning holes in my film holders, so I am thinking about creating makeshift backs by cutting black matte board.

I plan to use my homemade 4x5 camera with the Schneider 47mm f/5.6 Super Angulon XL. Or maybe the Graflex Speed Graphic with 90mm.

In Camera Cyanotype Negative

In Camera Lumen Print

First attempt

Anthotypes with stuff like local flowers, blackberries, cheap red wine, spinach and local greens

First try with red wine

Toned Lumen Prints

Tried selenium

Lumen Prints on Film (expired 120 roll and 4x5 sheet)

On Fuji Sensia II 400


Use vegetable oil to make paper negatives clear

Chemigrams sounds easy and with endless creative possibilities

First attempt

Cyanotype on glass - using gelatine as a sub

Fish print Chemigrams

Blue toner on Film Lumen print

The blue toner clears the film to almost transparent but with plenty of nice detail left.

I think I will be working with this more in the future.

Original

Blue Toned

On this paper lumen print, the blue toner seems to clear all but the brown tone. Not as desirable, to me.

Original, fixed print

Blue toned

A few more lumen prints

The first one of the tomato blew me away. It looked like a photograph of the tomato. The color was exactly the same. I am starting to wonder how the color is formed. I also did onion, dried shrimp and a couple more flowers.

 Here they are after fixing.

I love them!