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This is what the book looks like. A finished product! Took quite a few weeks and months but I really think it came out better than everyone who heard about it expected. I thought it came out better than I expected. Really was something that taught me a lot about art, photography and craftsmanship in general.
Final stages of construction. Here I am still attempting to do the inside covers and the book is bound yet not attached to the cover.
I am getting closer to realizing the final goal of a book with 11x17 pages. Today I made another test book, this one is quite a bit more involved than the last one! The last book I made had the pages bound with thread then glued to the spine of the cover, this one has the pages bound together and then the whole block of pages was bound to cloth and then the cloth was glued to the cover. Hopefully this allows the pages to turn more freely.. (as well as looking a bit better).
Another in a series of in progress photos. I am working toward a much larger (16x20ish) book of photographs. Made from tiny proof prints I made this little test book to get a feel for the final sequencing and the upcoming difficulty in binding. I learned A LOT by doing this small little test book.
This is what I do when I want a quick diffuser for a pop-up flash. I use a 4ply piece of 100% cotton rag mat board cut to size and put it in the spot the flash itself collapses into when not in use, fits perfectly and stays there snugly.
The Cyanotype process has been around since at least 1842. The invention of the process is credited to Sir John Herschel. The images it creates are based on ferric salts that create the distinctive prussian blue tone.
There are numerous websites and books that outline various recipes or how-to’s on creating Cyanotypes. This how-to is mine!
The Cyanotype I make is made with a two part chemical solution mixed in equal proportions. I purchased a kit from Bostick & Sullivan which included premixed dry chemistry in bottles that I only needed to add distilled water to make into a usable solution. Very easy!
I ordered the A and B cyanotype kit, 3 glass amber bottles with droppers, 3 extra droppers incase I need to replace them and 25 sheets of 11.5x14.5 paper. This is enough emulsion for roughly 250 4x5 contact prints and enough paper for 100 prints.. It cost me about $60 USD, very cheap if you ask me!
The formulation of parts A and B contain the following..
I've been working on learning how to use a wide variety of photographic processes. The norm nowadays is fresh out of the box factory made gelatin silver coated paper exposed under an enlarger using small negatives. The hand crafted processes that I am interested in as of late are generally referred to as Alternate Processes. All of the chemicals are coated onto paper by hand to create a light sensitive emulsion, not by a machine in a factory thus being an alternative process (apparently). A 4x5 inch negative is placed directly in contact with the emulsion of the paper with a sheet of glass on top, creating a sandwich of sorts. Even without much machinery involved this process of contact printing creates very beautiful prints.
The pinhole camera:
Focal Length (for 4x5 sheet film): 98mm
Pinhole Size: 0.22mm
Field of View: ~110degrees horizontal
Pinhole Aperture: f/445
Format, 4x10, 5x10, 4x5. etc..