Printing Cyantoypes with Digital Negatives

Date: Saturday, February 25, 2023

Time: 10AM - 4PM

Member:  $153.00

Non - Member:  $170.00

Instructor: Daniel Baird-Miller

Description

Cyanotype, or the Blue Print process, is a great introduction to the not so dark room, or Alternative Process photo lab. Created by John Hershel in 1842, the process involves coating paper with a UV sensitive chemistry and exposing the print to either the sun or an artificial UV source.

Cyanotypes are one of the more forgiving and least expensive processes. If you want to continue working with cyanotypes, the chemistry is one of the least hazardous and does not require a lot of additional tools. We will be printing digital negatives from your own images. You will learn the workflow I have developed and a short demonstration. Workshop attendees will leave with the digital negative workflow, Cyanotype prints, and printed digital negatives

Bio

Dan Baird-Miller is a fine art photographer and educator based in Northwest Connecticut. His work stretches from landscape, to portraiture, to abstraction. Dan works with analog and Instant film, color pinhole photography, wet plate collodion, albumen printing and more. He received his BFA from The Hartford Art School and his MFA from Lesley University. Dan studied under Christopher James, and is included in The Book of Alternative Processes, ed 3. He worked for New55, a startup reengineering large format positive/negative film and currently is a Launchpad Artist at Five Points Arts.

Requirements: Participants are asked to bring 3 - 5 high quality digital images in TIF form sized 8” on the longest side at 300 dpi on a USB. A notebook and pencil for note taking.