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So this is a more advanced form of making a contact sheet and it's technically called
a contact print, but in technical terms it's really doing the same thing. This is an image
called a cyanotype. Sometimes people call them sun prints too and what I did was I had
coated this paper with light sensitive emulsion, you're going to hear that word a lot, and
then I let it dry. Again very important with the drying. You want to make sure paper is
dry, negatives are dry. So what I did is a medium format negative. Check out a parade
here in town. I cut my medium format negative and I laid it on top of this piece of paper.
I really like this process because you don't need a dark room, a print room to do it in.
I took this and I put it outside in the sun for about fifteen minutes. It exposed. I developed
it in water and peroxide and it turned this beautiful blue, but again this process is
tying right back to just making a contact sheet and in a way it's kind of why I love
it. It's just so beautiful in it's simplicity.