First attempt at tricolor #cyanotype
Digital negatives, madder root extract for the magenta, bleached with washing soda.

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Chicago, IL 2025

Back in the tintype lab after a break. First time using an elderly copper lens. All the veiling is from sloppiness and not a strained metaphor. #tintype #alternativephotography

Juxtaposition!

Tintype.
Fun stuff.

Tons of mistakes while I'm learning tintypes and this is incredibly fun. An extra flick of the wrist when you pour the developer or dropping the plate in the silver bath a little slower than before will completely transform the result. Like learning to drive stick on a go-kart. #largeformat

Took it home and put it on a light table. Reversed it in LR mobile. Gonna try to print it. Would really like to find out what year that car is so I can figure out what this was take on and ~when.

Was going through some boxes in my parents' basement and saw that an old frame was, in fact, an oddly-sized contact frame whose black background is instead an ancient LF negative. My dad said he found it in the basement of the IN house that they lived in in the 80s, and just held onto it. (1/2)

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Outhouse went and got blown up.