Tex-s wrote:
Disclaimer : This is an image of a toned cyanotype print of a previously taken image.
The original image is nothing more than a hitching post about 2000 feet up a trail at Guadalupe Mountains National Park. It happens to be at the Pine Top trail junction.
The original was converted to B/W, inverted horizontally, inverted black-to-white, and printed onto a transparent film.
The film was used as a mask on top of a cyanotype-prepped art paper surface and exposed to sunlight, creating the typical bright blue monochrome cyanotype coloration. After finishing in hydrogen peroxide, a good rinse and drying, the blue cyanotype was exposed to very low concentrations of aqueous sodium carbonate, rinsed and soaked in concentrated, but cooled, green tea for about 40 minutes. The resulting interaction changed the blue to this semi-sepia color.
Other soaks can produce somewhat purple colors, near B/W renditions, and a pronounced brown, depending on which source of tannins is employed.
Disclaimer : This is an image of a toned cyanotype... (
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