Who was Anna Atkins?
Anna Atkins was a English botanist and a photographer. Some people often say she was the first to create a photograph. Anna was considered the first person to create and publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Anna was born on 16th March 1799 , she passed away on 9th June 1871. Cyanotypes were one of the first pictures that didn't need a camera. Anne Dixon (like a sister to Anna.) produced at least 3 presentations of albums of cyanotype photograms with Anna. Anna was a scientist and was associated with the British Museum. The chemicals that are in Cyanotypes are Potassium ferricyanide and Ferric ammonium citrate (green) are mixed with water separately.
What are the advantages of Cyanotypes?Cyanotypes are very easy to make , they are also cheap to create. So its cheap and easy to make and enjoyable. Little kids could do it with there parents have fun.
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What are the disadvantages of Cyanotypes?Cyanotypes can only be made when its sunny weather ,which it's hardly ever sunny so you can't always make Cyanotypes. Also you can only make 1 as there unique ,but with pictures you can just print how much you want.
I chose these ones because they are very creative but are simple objects. Most of them are house hold appliances or nature which is interesting. My most favourite is the flowers (tulips.) It's very simple but very effective. There just simple flowers in someones garden. |
WWW-Some objects are shown lots , and you can see what some objects are and some are less visible which is interesting. There is also loads of different shapes and sizes.
EBI-It was windy so some of the objects kept falling over so they are very faint and you can't see them as much. Also it started raining so it wasn't very easy to do. If it was sunny it would of came out a lot better.
EBI-It was windy so some of the objects kept falling over so they are very faint and you can't see them as much. Also it started raining so it wasn't very easy to do. If it was sunny it would of came out a lot better.
1st attempt. This one is fairly interesting and some objects are faint. So this one would of been better if there was some more objects in the middle of the paper.
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2nd attempt. This one is better than my 1st attempt. I moved the objects slightly over so the smudged and made a better effect. There is also more objects in the middle , which made this cyanotype interesting.
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