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  • Darkroom Variables – Spikes. Problem and Solution

    Darkroom Variables – Spikes. Problem and Solution

    What are spikes? Spikes are sudden bumps in values, reading a step tablet test print used to calibrate a printing process. Spikes are detectable when they occur between the end of one row and the beginning of the next in a 101 or 256 step tablet. Spikes are wrong discontinuities that shouldn’t happen. Step tablets…


  • Darkroom Variables – Printer settings

    What printer settings should be used for creating digital negatives? Many print makers ask what are the correct printer settings to use to print their digital negative. The real answer is that there is no fixed true answer. It all depends on your process, i.e. the sum of all the variables you have when printing.  Each…


  • Darkroom Variables – Colorized negatives

    Why do we colorize digital negatives? At the beginning of the digital negative era, around the early and mid ‘90s, the inks of the digital printers had poor UV filtering ability compared to what you find today. For printing in some Alternative Photographic processes that have an extended exposure scale like platinum palladium you need…


  • Darkroom Variables with Classic Cyanotype – Waiting time from coating to printing.

    I coated a sheet of paper using a rod and very little emulsion (0,0025 ml/cm2) down to where I drew the pencil lines. I cut the sheet in four strips when dry.  Room temperature was 22 deg C and Relative Humidity 74%.  I waited 20 minutes from coating and printed the first quarter of the…


  • Darkroom Variables with Classic Cyanotype – Alkaline buffered (acid free) papers

    I used only acid free papers for quite a long time, before I started buying Arches Platine, a pure cotton rag with no alkaline reserve that gives me wonderful results with blue and turquoise shades. Acid free papers such as watercolor papers often give very dark blues, even darker than Arches Platine and they are…


  • Darkroom Variables with Classic Cyanotype – Development and Washing

    Washing your cyanotype in the best way is very important in order to have a print that will last beautifully. If you don’t wash enough, some emulsion will remain inside the paper and it will show up in time as a yellow cast in the highlights.  If you wash too much, you risk to wash…


  • Darkroom Variables with Classic Cyanotype – Paper white and Citric Acid

    Normally, when you print in cyanotype (or any other alternative photographic processes) you have to face a step in the negative calibration where you want to reach “paper white” in your test print, and only in the last steps of the step tablet you printed. Paper white is the lightest color you can have on…


  • Negativo Digital para Fotografía Alternativa

    For English click here. Soy feliz de ofrecerte el primer video curso profesional para hacer Negativos Digitales para Fotografía Alternativa. Es en Inglés con subtítulos en Inglés y en Castellano. Para descubrir el curso haz click AQUÍ. La preparación de este video curso ha llevado más de un año y medio. Mi experiencia previa, haciendo…


  • Colección Macro

    Colección Macro

    La colección Macro está pensada para el diseño de interiores de tu hogar. Las bellezas del Océano de mi colección Macro las encuentro a la orilla del mar en Lanzarote, a menudo maltratadas por el mar y su rocas volcánicas. Sin embargo tienen toda la poesía de la naturaleza. Recojo estas pequeñas piezas de pocos…


  • New keyrings, cactus and sea collection

    keyrings with a cyanotype print


  • Family portrait with flowers

    Los retratos de tu familia decorados con flores


  • Family

    Family

    un proyecto participativo para tu familia realizado en cianotipia