Here I have experimented with the Cyanotype technique. This process included covering a piece of normal paper in a light sensitive solution and then covering the paper with a image that has been printed onto a piece of acetate. Next you have to expose the paper to a light source so the image can transfer. By printing your image onto acetate it allows the light to pass through the lighter areas of the image on to the paper with the solution therefore creating a cyanotype.
After scanning in the final image I then put it into photoshop and inverted the colours so that the image was in it's original state before being turned into a cyanotype. After inverting the image the background has also changed colour to a brown and black and this defeats the objective of being cyanotype as the background is no longer cyan. I will try this technique again but instead of inverting the image after the cyanotype is created I will invert the image before printing onto acetate ands if that gives the same effect as this way.
I then decide to edit the image a bit further by changing levels, saturation etc. so that the shapes and light and darker areas were more visible and brightened the image so that it wasn't as faint as it was in the image above.
After experimenting with this unique style of photography I think I'm definitely going to try and incorporate this technique into another aspect of this unit as it is a really effective way of displaying your images. This links into Truth, Fantasy and Fiction as it has a surreal feel to it.
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