Project 7:Alternative Processes through Digital Means

Cyanotype: Cameron's Balloons

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For project 7, we studied alternate means of photo processing stimulated through a computer or digital camera. We studied primarily, daguerreotypes and cyanotypes. Daguerreotypes are photos taken and developed on a iodine-sensitized silvered plate and a mercury vapor. We replicated this using photoshop by putting textures we found online on top of our photographs and this gave our photos the appearance of being on a metal plate. Cyanotypes are processed using chemicals that make the photograph a shade of blue. Often, it was used to enlarge engineers work, thus creating the term blueprint.

Daguerreotype: Flowers

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Daguerreotype: Lauren