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.

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