{"id":2341,"date":"2014-04-15T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2014-04-15T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T16:09:39","slug":"van-dyke-brown-prints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2341","title":{"rendered":"Van Dyke Brown Prints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, I attended a small workshop on Van Dyke printing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/vcphoto.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vermont Center for Photography<\/a>. I spent an enjoyable afternoon learning a new alternative process.<\/p>\n<p>The Van Dyke process is \u00a0very similar in many ways to cyanotype but yields a nice chocolaty brown print instead of the blue of cyanotype. It\u00a0is an iron-based process (like cyanotype) in which the photoreduction of \u00a0iron \u00a0is used to drive the reduction of silver which actually forms the image.<\/p>\n<p>I sent three files to the instructor (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamdixonphotography.net\/williamdixonphotography.net\/HomePage.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Dixon<\/a>) ahead of time and he prepared very nice digital negatives from them.<\/p>\n<p>Scans of the resulting prints are shown below&#8230; pretty good for a first attempt, if I do say so myself!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2341 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Van-Dyke-003-cropped.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Van-Dyke-003-cropped-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2338\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2338'>\n\t\t\t\tVan Dyke Brown Print #1\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Van-Dyke-002-cropped.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Van-Dyke-002-cropped-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2340\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2340'>\n\t\t\t\tVan Dyke Brown Print #2\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Van-Dyke-001-cropped.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Van-Dyke-001-cropped-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2339\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2339'>\n\t\t\t\tVan Dyke Brown Print #3\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I have all of the chemicals needed to try this at home&#8230; now I just need to find some time!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, I attended a small workshop on Van Dyke printing at the Vermont Center for Photography. I spent an enjoyable afternoon learning a new alternative process. The Van Dyke process is \u00a0very similar in many ways to cyanotype but yields a nice chocolaty brown print instead of the blue of cyanotype. It\u00a0is an iron-based process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-processes","category-van-dyke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}