guy,in,a,hatOn other news, I figured out how to get more detail from my #images for the #cyanotype process I am pursuing. Basically the #CR2 image for the #Canon6d is 14bit so it contains way more than 256 layers of shade. So I have to use #dcraw to convert CR2s to tiff, then open in #gimp and play with the image until it gives me the shade distribution I am looking for... I have to extend the whites so that I can get the most out of the #mikeware formula
Today's #cyanotype experiment was interesting đđ€. First of all let me tell you that #openAI and #ChatGPT are such time wasters and Uber bad coders. I'm worse, but if I can tell these tools suck, I don't have to wonder what professional programmers think of them. Anyway so I had these tools help me write a calibration grid counter a few weeks ago. Then I stopped and started using #mikeware's #newcyanotype formula for practicing....
Apparently #peanutbutter in excess can give you #FattyLiver. I have it for breakfast every day. This guy says it's due to #oxalates. You know what else has oxalates? #cyanotype formula containing #ferricammoniumoxalate like #mikeware's #newcyanotype formula. I'm sure it's not bad if you don't drink it or swim in it for a few hours. But I'm also aware that some #poison reactions are additive. I'm gonna be wearing #gloves from now on while using that stuff. I should have been from the getgo.
Going #cyanotype bonkers over here. Just printing stuff away. Making inverted images on #gimp, then projecting them directly on the paper. I'm using the #NewCyanotype formula from #mikeware https://www.mikeware.co.uk/mikeware/main.html and toning using #cambucha gone bad (#vinager) and #greentea
Yesterday I was exposing a #Cyanotype using the #newCyanotype formula from #MikeWare. I accidentally because I'm impatient decided to go ahead and expose it still lightly wet. And man that took like an hour to get anything on it. Then after development the image was blurry. I'm exposing the same image now with a dry coated paper and it works sooooo much better and faster. At 5 minutes the color is already on it. Just need to wait to solarize. Here you get to see my #projector setup.
I'm trying #mikeware's 1995 new #cyanotype #formula where you mix hot #oxalate with #ferric cyanide and remove the green crystals to form a single #emulsion.
It's a no brainier since it uses almost the same chemistry but dam it's fast. At least on the paper that I had success with the original cyanotype, this formula worked splendidly. Now I'm trying the photo paper where I failed before. It may work better? I added citric #acid in the mix 0.02grams or 1 drop 40%. Again here using a #projector.
