I’ve been experimenting with smallish prints after taking Ray Bidegain and Patrick Kolb’s Platinum Printing workshop this past February. I renewed my acquaintance with painter and photographer Ann Quinn, whose small prints of flowers turned out so lovely in platinum that I dragged out some old negatives I’d acquired at a photo swap meet a few years ago.
After the workshop I moved on to cyanotype and made some small cards with the images
Found negatives, 1900-1930s (?)
Crane’s Cover 90lb, cyanotype recipe from Jan Arnow’s Handbook of Alternative Photographic Processes
Nikon D70 50 mm lens
platinum workshop, february 2007 at photographic | 05-Apr-07 at 10:31 am | Permalink
[…] In February 2007 I took a workshop with Ray Bidegain and Patrick Kolb of the Contact Printers Guild. As I mentioned a few posts ago, I was inspired by Ann Quinn’s small flower prints, and pulled out a stack of found negatives. As a sort of “test strip” I exposed several negatives at once as a starting point: […]