Sunday, February 28, 2021

Starting a blog to document ferric gelatin experiments

 There was a thread on photrio about in-camera cyanotypes... and this morning Jnantz suggested trying it wet.  That rung a big bell for me.  Previously I have experimented quite a bit with ferric gelatin processes ( I'll expand on that more later ) but the process was always too slow for in-camera work and the gelatin reliefs never as robust as what can be had with dichromates.   Back when photrio was APUG, I had a small blog there detailing my adventures with ferric gelatin -- mostly to make oilprints.   These days if you want a blog at photrio it needs to be on an external site, so I'm making this right now to document any progress that happens with the new approach.

 Last weekend's start was a comedy of errors.  I cut up some scraps of what I thought was Strathmore 400 printmaking paper ( which was r...