Van Dyke Brown – Koraks tinkers

Brownies get the blues – Combining Van Dyke brown and cyanotype

This sort of emerged as I was playing with, and I’m actually quite happy with what I ended up with – unintentionally. It’s a combination of Van Dyke brown prints and cyanotypes that allows for the image tone to be set at virtually any point on the ocher-cyan axis. It’s also quite easy, reasonably quick, affordable and can be done with a high degree of consistency.

Ogling curves – Comparing salted paper, Van Dyke and DAS carbon

Earlier today I posted a blog with analysis of curves and especially hues of salted paper prints. I mentioned a comparison of curve shapes with some other processes as well, and since that’s fairly easy to do, I thought I could follow up on it right away. In this brief blog, let’s have a look at the H/D curves of salted paper, Van Dyke and DAS carbon.

Beam me down, Scotty: a new ultra-simple UV light source

It’s been a while since I wrote a somewhat acrid blog about the 300W UV floodlight unit I bought from AliExpress. The tone was acrid, because 300W in reality turns out to be about 75W. The conclusion was somewhat counter-intuitive, as I also mentioned that I found the unit so abysmal, I planned to buy some more of them. The reason is simple: while the unit doesn’t live up to its specifications, it still gives a lot of bang for your buck, and most importantly, it’s super easy to implement. Well, you be the judge of that!