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ALTERNATIVE PRINTING PROCESSSSSSSSS

I ordered some Lumi Inkodye the other week. You know, that permanent fabric ink that sets in 8mins in the sunshine! It arrived today and I did a couple of test prints...

They were fairly successful, but not totally. Here's what I learnt:

-They are about 6-8" wide which is a bit too small I think. Fabric isn't great for sharp detail, so the bigger the better. A4 next time!
-The images are fairly complicated. I increased the contrast before printing the negatives but a simpler bolder image would work better.
-PIN DOWN NEGATIVE. With the 2nd one the negative lifted at the bottom corners, so sunlight got in and all detail was lost in the bottom half of the image. DOH.
-I need to be better at washing. After they set in the sun you're supposed to wash them, get all excess ink off. I did that. But with the first one I noticed the white areas carried on developing and getting more blue... the contrast was lost. This is because I didn't get all the ink off when I washed it, and then i put it out in the sun to dry. DOH.

DEVELOPING IN SUN:


PRINT 1:


PRINT 2:


Still look cool in my opinion. Can't wait to try my own designs/photos. Maybe some t-shirts are in order.

That looks fooking awesome dude! very very cool.
Could you do that on paper too? like a water colour paper or something?

Hmm not sure. you have to rinse it and then wash it in soapy water afterwards so I would guess not.

This example on wood is brilliant:


Might try something like that next.

Hmm I like it on the wood.

Will be looking more into this.

Yeah it's fun to try! I could only find one place in the UK that sold it, Lumi are still quite a small US company I think. Hopefully more places will stock it soon and maybe it will get a bit cheaper in the future. It's a little pricey (£30) for the amount of ink you get... however I only used a small drop of ink for each of these prints, and the box says you get enough ink for 60 prints of this size, so not too bad. And I've heard you can dilute it, I might look into that.

I wish I had my own house.. it's a great way to jazz up your furniture:

I am a regular viewer of the art of photography on youtube. The presenter Ted Forbes is a always harping on that every photographer professional or amateur should have at the very least a blog and not just use flickr. So as an impressionable man I of course set one up. I am not sure it is really good reading yet, but I do have a few idea's to perhaps add to information on the internet. At the very least it allows me to not clutter up flickr with info on film and processing etc. So here it is.


http://jordensayer.wordpress.com/

This might be a really silly noob question, but how did you get such large negatives?

They're just black and white images inverted then printed onto assetate. They're not proper negatives.

Ah. I was wondering if you'd been shooting slide or something.

It's a pretty cool thing, to take an image and turn it into something so tactile and tangible like that.

Hurb wrote:http://jordensayer.wordpress.com/

Nice. I will definitely follow this.

I was thinking the other day about starting a blog, but not of my own photos. I had a blog a couple of years ago where I posted a bit of info on a certain subject and then some cool photos from flickr (always credited) to go with it. It was a blend of my interests in photography and also of interesting facts and stuff. In a way it was like an encyclopedia. Little nuggets of information with some pretty pictures lol I might start it again.

DanHeron wrote:

Hurb wrote:http://jordensayer.wordpress.com/

Nice. I will definitely follow this.

I was thinking the other day about starting a blog, but not of my own photos. I had a blog a couple of years ago where I posted a bit of info on a certain subject and then some cool photos from flickr (always credited) to go with it. It was a blend of my interests in photography and also of interesting facts and stuff. In a way it was like an encyclopedia. Little nuggets of information with some pretty pictures lol I might start it again.

Cheers Dan, hope it is of some interest.

Would like to see you do one too.

I decided to start a blog then. Like I said it's not about my photography, but about interesting STUFF and accompanying photographs. Hopefully it will become a bit of a source for inspiration. It's also somewhere for my nerdyness to come out, I like reading about things and random bits of general knowledge.

Anyway, the first post is about some of the earliest known photographs. I'm not going to write loads, or go into technical details about stuff. I've included links for that. It's just quick bits of info which hopefully some people will find interesting like I do.

http://letsvisualize.tumblr.com/

EDIT

Added a 2nd post about my favourite place on earth (not that ive been) - Mount Everest.

Just downloaded a new photography app for my iphone. It's called 'VSCO', from these guys: http://visualsupply.co/

It's just a photo editor, no social network features. But its really good. Goodbye instagram.
It's not got loads of features but there are some nice touches like being able to add grain haha. And the photos do look pretty nice, I just took these round the house:






I like how it doesn't crop them to a square like instagram does.

Check the examples on here, they're mega: http://visualsupply.co/vscocam/

A polaroid project I did for "Roid Week"


#1 by gusman2x, on Flickr


#2 by gusman2x, on Flickr


#3 by gusman2x, on Flickr


#4 by gusman2x, on Flickr


#5 by gusman2x, on Flickr


#6 by gusman2x, on Flickr

Haha love the last 2! Cool stuff.

Interesting read on the blog Dan, I have the vcso thing for lightroom it's pretty cool.

Although I am sans digital camera now so I won't have much use for it.

I also have alien skin which is another film simulation software but has light leaks and other wacky stuff so you can do things like this

Hurb wrote:I am a regular viewer of the art of photography on youtube. The presenter Ted Forbes is a always harping on that every photographer professional or amateur should have at the very least a blog and not just use flickr. So as an impressionable man I of course set one up. I am not sure it is really good reading yet, but I do have a few idea's to perhaps add to information on the internet. At the very least it allows me to not clutter up flickr with info on film and processing etc. So here it is.


http://jordensayer.wordpress.com/

Some brilliant photographs there and on your flickr. I love film as well (ahem, the band i play in is called film actually) and the quality and emotion of your work is astonishing, I love the amount of grain on most shots. Are you using alien skin on them or its just the original images?
Also, have you studied photography or you have just picked up your knowledge by reading on your own?

Keep us the great work.

riotshield wrote:

Hurb wrote:I am a regular viewer of the art of photography on youtube. The presenter Ted Forbes is a always harping on that every photographer professional or amateur should have at the very least a blog and not just use flickr. So as an impressionable man I of course set one up. I am not sure it is really good reading yet, but I do have a few idea's to perhaps add to information on the internet. At the very least it allows me to not clutter up flickr with info on film and processing etc. So here it is.


http://jordensayer.wordpress.com/

Some brilliant photographs there and on your flickr. I love film as well (ahem, the band i play in is called film actually) and the quality and emotion of your work is astonishing, I love the amount of grain on most shots. Are you using alien skin on them or its just the original images?
Also, have you studied photography or you have just picked up your knowledge by reading on your own?

Keep us the great work.

Oh thanks so much! That really is nice to hear.

I do basically nothing to any of my film shots, my workload is I scan them as large tiffs with no adjustments in the epson scanner software. I then bulk load them into lightroom and do some some basic contrast adjustments, crop all the black from around the negative(I don't really like cropping other than that), get rid of any big dust, I go as far as the clarity slider. But I go no further down, so no sharpening or any funny business. I have never used alien skin or anything like that on my film shots.
I used it on digital shots to make them more film like but it is an arse on and is a big reason I can't be bothered with digital too much(the time spent editing to get the look you get from film)
I haven't studied photography no, I just know what I like and read a lot online, magazines and old film photography books I pick up in charity shops. All that really only started in big way this year.

Thanks again I really appreciate that

I love the Lumi thing, it makes me want to buy a printer and start making some t-shirts.

gusman2x wrote:A polaroid project I did for "Roid Week"

This is cool. Kind of reminds me of Mac Adams.