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__Find 3 examples of cyanotypes that you find especially beautiful and inspiring.__
The photographer of this photo is Bruce Campbell and this is a negative-based photo. To make this photograph, Bruce Campbell used paper to print his photos on. The compositional techniques that were used in this photo are fill the frame, leading lines, and rule of thirds. He used fill the frame because the flower takes up the entire photograph and barely has any space without the flower on it. The artist used leading lines because the edges of the flower petals create lines that lead the viewer’s eye from spot to spot on the photograph. Lastly, this artist used rule of thirds because the center of the flower is more off to the right of the photo. This causes for the flower to go off the right side of the photo and creates a more interesting photo. As for the elements and principl es of design, I believe that this artist used texture because you can see how smooth the flower is and it makes the photo look a lot more peaceful and pretty. Line was used, like said before, to lead the eye. The smooth lines that go from one end of the picture to the other make the view see the entire image as a whole and not just one part. As for shape, this artist has the flower which has petals of all the same shape and it creates a consistency throughout the entire photo that makes the entire thing flow together very well. So this also shows that there is pattern used in this photo. As for the principles of design, I think the main ones used in this picture are rhythm, balance and unity. The rhythm and unity go together in this picture because since there is unity and noting that really stands out, it creates a rhythm throughout the entire photograph. Lastly, there is balance in this picture because there isn’t really one spot on the photo that stands out and this creates a balance in all aspects of the picture.

The photographer who took this photo is Christian Marclay and this is print-based image. He used watercolor paper to print this because it was better for this type of printing. With this photograph, the photographer used the compositional techniques of leading lines and fill the frame. He used leading lines because the stems of the flowers lead the person’s eye from flower to flower, making the photograph even more interesting. Also. he use fill the frame because there isn’t really a spot on the photograph that isn’t filled with a flower, and it also makes the picture more interesting. In this photo I believe that the main elements of design that were emphasized in this were color and form. I think this because everything in this picture is mainly blue except for the white flower in the middle. That flower is white and that emphasizes the flower very much which is one of the principles of design used in this photo. The other element of design that was used is form and I think that was used very much because on a lot of the flowers you can’t see the details of it but only the shapes of the flowers. This leaves the details of the flowers up for interpretation, making the photo more interesting. As for another principle of design used, I think that movement was used. Because there are leading lines, this creates a movement throughout the entire photo that makes the viewer see more of the photo than they would if there were no leading lines.



The photographer who created this photo is Carl Curman and it is a negative-based image. To make this photograph he printed it on regular paper and he focused on making his photographs cool with blue tones. With this photograph, I believe that Carl Curman used the compositional techniques of framing and rule of thirds. He used framing with the trees in order to frame his focal point which is the castle. And he used rule of thirds because his focal point- the castle, is not in the center of the photo but instead it mainly takes up the second and third quadrants of the photograph. As for the elements of design, I feel that the most prominent ones in this cyanotype are texture and color. Texture is very visible in almost every part of this photograph. For example, there are rough textures where the trees are which is the majority of the picture. The castle also contains some rough textures near the roof but the brick sides of the building are smoother. This creates a contrast between the castle and the trees that makes the photograph more interesting. Color is a very large factor in this photo because it is mainly blue tones. This is done because it is a cyanotype and it gives more of a sad feeling, which is what this author’s goal was. As for principles of design, I feel that the main ones in this cyanotype is emphasis and movement. I feel that emphasis was used because, besides the castle there is mostly the same thing covering the photo- trees. So this causes for the castle to be the focal point and the thing that is emphasized. Lastly, I feel that movement was used because the trees below the castle allow for the eye to move from spot to spot, eventually leading up to the focal point. This makes looking at this cyanotype very interesting and visually pleasing.


 * __Now look at your own collection of images on Bridge from the Prairie and Cemetery.__ **

I think that this picture I took in the prairie photo shoot could be a good cyanotype because one of the main criteria for a photo being a cyanotype is that there shouldn’t be a large amount of contrast and I shot this picture with low contrast. The entire picture is mostly brown tones, that aren’t very different from each other. After making this photo into a cyanotype it would make it more contrasty and more interesting. So, because this picture has a low amount of contrast, I believe that it would make a very good cyanotype. Another reason I think this could be a good cyanotype is because if it were made blue it could be looked at as somethin completely different. Instead of being a picture in the woods behind the school, it could be seen as something more fantastical.



I think that this photo would make a good cyanotype for the same reason as the picture above- I didn’t make the photo with very much contrast. Once again, the photo has mostly brown tones to it with some green, making this photo have low contrast. So, after making it into a cyanotype, it would add some contrast and make a good cyanotype that doesn’t have too much contrast. Also, like the picture above, once a photo is made into a cyanotype I look at it as being more fantastical. So, if this picture were made into a cyanotype with the blue tones it would be more interesting and could be looked at in a completely different way.

As for this picture, I thought that it could make a good cyanotype because there isn’t too much contrast but there is some, and as I was looking through examples of cyanotypes, my favorite ones were of flowers. So, I thought that flowers make good cyanotypes. However, because I made this photo with more contrast, it could not look as good as the other photos, but I still think that it has a good amount of contrast where it could still look good as a cyanotype. Also, on this photo as a cyanotype, like the others, once changed into a cyanotype with those blue tones, the concept of the photo can be looked at completely different. It can be left to the viewer’s interpretation to decide what the blue flower means. It could be something like another world or a magical place. So overall, I think that this would be a good cyanotype because it would make the concept much more interesting and beautiful.