ARIM Week 8: More cyanotypes & digital portraits.
Week 8 has gone by so quickly, every day I was working little by little to create more cyanotypes of toys while documenting our family more digitally. Starting off by taking these pictures on monday. After my hiccup with film developing the previous week, I decided to try working more digitally because film chemicals were out of stock just about every where. I’ve had my camera close by through the week, trying to document my family in different ways. Luckily this week i was able to get more chemicals delivered, and plan on preparing the chemicals and shoot my remaining film on hand before we move this summer.
Tuesday Ariana was exceptionally messy. As our living room kept filling with all of her little toys I began getting excited about having a good day to document what she had left me to pick up. Just after I put her down to nap, I filled her pink bucket (from the sandbox that shouldn’t have been inside) with all of the toys, and set up my space to photograph them.
Throughout making this work I’ve been sharing a lot of the process on my instagram stories. Now that I’ve been making this work more consistently I’m begging to work out a good system for creating the images/negatives to be printed.
I begin by photographing the object on a black piece of cardboard near our glass doors to get a soft light source. I then crop and convert the images to black and white, darken the background to be completely black to isolate my object, and then invert the image for my negative to print.
It feels great to have seen this work grow over the last few weeks while continuing to document my time with my family. In the next week I hope to re print many of these, as they are test prints. And organize the prints by the order they were taken. I hope to also take better scans/photographs of them individually so you can really see the print detail I’m able to achieve with this process.
Another Announcement, I’m done scanning Polaroids
Last week on my blog, I shared that I was in the process of scanning my polaroid work A Physical Memory. I did a pretty terrible job keeping track of saving them in an organized way when I made the work. I’m so happy they all live happily on this website now, and will be using the instagram account they were originally on to share new polaroid works/favorites from my archive.
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