It might sound strange but tea can be used to tone prints and works especially well with cyanotypes imparting a yellowy red tone to the highlights of the images and creating almost split toned effect which can be quite effective. Tea has a naturally high tannin content and it is these tannins that tone the [...]
Read More...An alternative (non-silver) photographic process is loosely defined as any traditional or historic analog (although I don’t like the term analog) printing process that does not use silver gelatin paper that is commonly used in traditional darkroom printing. There are many alternative processes such as platinum, cyanotype, vandyke, gum bichromate, kallitype, ziatype and salt printing [...]
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My name is Mark Voce and I’m a fine art photographer specialising in landscape, architecture and night photography.
I discovered historic and alternative processing methods last year and have been hooked ever since, I am always experimenting with the aim of perfecting my techniques.
This blog shares my findings in with these wonderful diverse printing methods.
