Alternative Processes Montage

[@TheStockwell]

I was amazed to see this new upload. I thought this channel was dead because of the lack of activity. 🧐

[@jimhildebrand3272]

I would love to do this, just need an easy way to get negatives made without a printer.

[@ShirtlessMenNetwork]

Even a cheap inkjet printer can get you up and going, especially so you won't spend a ton of money on the front end to see if you'll like alt process printing enough to stick with it in the long run. Then, if you do enjoy it, you can start selling your work to build the funds to get a bigger, better printer. And, you can get a 365nm LED flood light from Amazon for relatively cheap, which is great for making prints up to 11x17, whether cyanotypes, kallitypes, or even platino-palladiotypes. Cyanotypes are by far the cheapest and easiest to make, needing nothing more than a sink or a bathtub to develop, and they're really fun to tone. Kallitypes are excellent black-and-white images that are also relatively inexpensive, though much more involved (different baths much like traditional silver halide printing). These two processes are great ways to get up and running in alt process photography. Now, wet-plate collodion is a whole other beast. lol