Fingerprint Card #6
cyanotype and brown printing on vintage police fingerprint cards. Original 4×5 negatives created with a vintage Graflex Speed Graphic press camera.
(for those interested, a cyanotype is a print made by hand painting the solution directly onto paper, contact printing the negative by exposing it to sunlight and developing it in water. It is the ‘greenest’ of all photographic processes.)
Serena Dunaway
This is so great! I’m so impressed by your talent! Thanks for letting us in on the technique.:)
Stephen Sheffield
Thank you Serena, very nice of you to say. About the techniques; spread the love is what i say.
mimi yoon
great techniques… i’ll try that… spread the love… : )
looks so great… sepia toned back view awesome by itself…
cyanotype headless image awesome on its won… two together on a vintage card, a killer… : ) huge, like approx 6 ft tall (all the entire height of a wall) on a wall would be amazing to look at….
Stephen Sheffield
Mimi, thank you so much for your kind words!
If you are interested i recommend a great book. Its called Coming Into Focus, by John Barnier. It covers all the major alternative processes, very comprehensive and detailed. Cheers, and show some when you make them!!
marshall calve...
fantastic imagination brilliantly executed wonderful story
Scott d'Almeida
wonderful images.
John Douglas
beautifully done – like looking into a 1920’s crime record book