UV Bliss

[Jeremy]

I just had to share this because no one I can talk to here cares one whit about a box that produces light which is harmful to your eyes

The box was on for about 30 seconds (the first time ever!) so the bulbs hadn't completely come on yet.

I have a sheet of cyanotype drying and I mixed up some ferric oxalate to print palladiums tomorrow... I'm so excited I'm bouncing off the walls!

[Mateo]

Padrisimo!
Did you make it yourself?

[Jeremy]

Yep, just finished it today.

[Mateo]

It looks like quite a few bulbs, how big can you print now?

[Jeremy]

My 16x20 contact frame slides in nicely, so up to 16x20

There are 12 24" bulbs in the box.

[mark]

Drool, drool, drool, slurp, drool.

I was just looking at the stuff to build one of these myself. Looked tough. Was it?

[Jeremy]

I only needed one band-aid
It wasn't difficult at all, the only problem was cutting the initial sheet of plywood down--it was too big to cut in the garage and it was raining outside for a straight week so it pushed my whole project back. I've printed up one cyanotype step-tablet while working towards some curves for diginegs. Seems to print quite quickly, taking only 4.5 minutes on a all-color black negative. I'm drying some paper to do a red colorized negative and a "pyro" colorized neg right now.

[Jeremy]

Hmm, I wonder if I'm going to have an issue with speed, I can cook a pyro digital neg (CMYK=54,33,100,13) in about 3 minutes. The strips look great, though!

My goal is to have my print up (palladium) in the challenge gallery by tomorrow night.

[kwmullet]

Very cool! Congrats!

I'll have to get you to walk me through the alt-process thing sometime. I'm strictly a silver gel guy.

[Jeremy]

Kevin,
Once I get my curves down I'll have you bring over a couple of images and we'll scan them in and make some palladium prints for you. One condition, though, you have to ignore the mess