Archive for May, 2008

Zone Plate Photo: Bodie the Dog

May 29th, 2008 by laura | 1 Comment | Filed in Laura Campbell Fine Art

Here we are with a zone plate photo of Bodie, my sweet 6-year-old. In this photo, he’s catching up on his beauty rest. He’s only pretending to be awake. Yesterday he got a bath and today he sat down in blue paint. I upgraded to a new scanner in preparation for making more digital negatives for handcoating. It just arrived today and initial testing shows much better results than my old scanner. I’m waiting on a new batch of chemicals for handcoating cyanotypes. I’m starting with Dr. Mike Ware’s New Cyanotype process, using Dektol to bleach, and tannic acid to tone the print. I’m looking forward to experimenting with this process in the coming days.

newscannerbodie.jpg

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Test Print Day 4: Pinhole-Palladium

May 24th, 2008 by laura | 1 Comment | Filed in Laura Campbell Fine Art

Today’s testing was not as much of a disaster as the testing I did yesterday.  I worked out a few problems I was having with the digital negative and with handcoating.  So here we are with a more acceptable test print.  The original print was scanned and transfered to Pictorico transparency, this time with a yellow color fill.  I used the Crane paper again, with 7-4-12 drops and a single, heavy coat of sensitizing solution.  The exposure in the UV light box was 143 seconds.  The image was developed in ammonium citrate with a few drops of 1 percent gold chloride to cool the hue.

Detail, Joshua Tree (Pinhole on Palladium)

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