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Did a workshop today where someone taught us how to do Cyanotype. For those who don't know what a cyanotype is, here is a description:

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that gives a cyan-blue print. The process was popular in engineering circles well into the 20th century. The simple and low-cost process enabled them to produce large-scale copies of their work, referred to as blueprints.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanotype

This is an old photograph of my mum - since I am continuing the project I did last year, and used a negative of this photograph on a piece of acetate, and exposed the image onto a piece of paper. In basic, a cyanotype uses UV light to expose a piece of sensitized paper, and when the paper is washed it turns blue.

Film.
Used an 8x10 camera to make 19th century style paper negative. This is the positive from that negative. I had to hold still for 10 seconds! Hence the funny focusing!
The scanner I used is quite rubbish, so there are some odd lines on the image, but they aren't on the print.
The contrast is high because it was using Ilford multigrade paper that is only sensitive to green and blue light (Orthochromatic), so it doesn't pick up skin tones very well. But this is what early 19th century photographs would have been like.

"Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a Stoic while taking a bath, and when they found her, afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possessed and her small body giving off the odour of a mature woman, the paramedics had been so frightened by her tranquility that they had stood mesmerized. But then Mrs. Lisbon lunged in, screaming, and the reality of the room reasserted itself: blood on the bath mat; Mr. Lisbon's razor sunk in the toilet bowl, marbling the water. The paramedics fetched Cecilia out of the warm water because it quickened the bleeding, and put a tourniquet on her arm. Her wet hair hung down her back and already her extremities were blue. She didn't say a word, but when they parted her hands they found the laminated picture of the Virgin Mary she held against her budding chest."

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides.

This is for Sarah Ann Loreth's competition.
This is by one of my many favourite authors, Jeffrey Eugenides. I've been meaning to do this photograph for ages now, and finally got around to doing it.
I know it's morbid, but the book it self is incredibly dark. I admit to never finishing the book, since it's so heavy going, so I never found out why the sisters all committed suicide. But it made me too depressed reading it, so had to give it a break.

(I replaced this after using one of Sarah Ann Loreth's actions. Flickr has made this way oversharp.)

The photographs below, with quotes added in, using the same print out and scan in process to get the worn down effect.

I want to make a legit website, but am finding it difficult since I have no web design knowledge. I tried one place, but they wanted $5 a month (roughly £3), along with £12 for two years for a domain name. I'm fine with paying for the latter, since that's two years worth, but the former is too expensive on a student budget! Can I have some help with this please?

The photographs below, with quotes added in, using the same print out and scan in process to get the worn down effect.

I want to make a legit website, but am finding it difficult since I have no web design knowledge. I tried one place, but they wanted $5 a month (roughly £3), along with £12 for two years for a domain name. I'm fine with paying for the latter, since that's two years worth, but the former is too expensive on a student budget! Can I have some help with this please?