º Pomegranates 1 Toned Cyanotype

Pomegranates Toned Cyanotype

 

Original Exposure:

7th October 2024, 3pm

Indoors, north-facing natural light, EV 5.5, and exposing shadows at front of back fruit at -1.5EV, and indicating normal development. Subjects placed on white baking parchment for lack of reflections.

Chamonix 810V, Rodenstock Apo-Sironar S 240mm f/5.6

10x8 Ilford FP4+ ISO 64, 25 seconds at f/8

440mm bellows extension, no movements

 

Film Development:

12th October 2024

Stearman Press SP810 daylight tray

5 min water prewash to remove purple stain from film base

Pyrocat HD 2:2:100, N-development for 9’41” at 20ºC

1min acetic acid stop

6mins DIY TF2 fix

1min Sodium sulphite hypo clear

6mins of washes (9x 500ml tap water agitated 10 times and then discarded)

Ilfotol rinse

 

Base Cyanotype Print:

Hahnemühle Platinum Rag 15x11" paper

Classic cyanotype, 31 drops part A + 31 drops part B + 1 drops Tween20 mix (2 drops Tween per 10 drops distilled water)

Coated paper dried one hour, 20.8ºC, 55% relative humidity

 

Exposed UV 42mins until edges well solarized and details showing through in all areas

Developed in 3/4 tsp citric acid in 1.5l tap water/2x tap water washes (2mins+2x3mins), followed by 1min in 1l distilled water (I added this to prevent any bleaching from the tap water)

 

Full Bleach before toning:

face down in 0.75g Calcium Carbonate powder + 1.5l distilled water, approx 24hrs +

 

Tone with Purple Smoke Bush leaves:

100 leaves, chopped with scissors, steeped in boiling distilled water for 15mins, strained

Tone face down 26mins (agitating for first couple of mins to avoid bubbles), followed by 10min soak in tap water face up

 

 

Digitized with Nikon D800E/85PC-E tilt-shift, stitch of three frames

 

Done