Creative Applications of Photography March 20th

This week we tried another couple of non camera photographic techniques.  The first one being a Cyanotype or Blueprint.  Paper is painted with a solution, left to dry and then either items or an acetate print are placed on top and the whole thing exposed to UV light for 15-20 minutes.  The paper is then washed in water and then dried.  I did a fairly simple one onto a piece of paper from my watch project.  I placed some negatives, a protractor and a large paperclip onto the paper before exposing to UV:

We then tried a Polaroid Lift.  Because the camera’s are so hard to come by the college has a machine that prints a 35mm negative or an acetate onto a polaroid.  What you can then do is soak the picture in hot water and the image on a thin film comes away from the white card.  There are a couple of things that can then be done with this:

• The thin film can then be arranged on a piece of card. Either as flat as possible or most likely crumpled.
• The black paper that is peeled off the polaroid picture can be pressed onto paper and whatever residue is left is transferred.