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1. The first cyanotype that I choose was created by Peter Robinson, and it's a negative transparacy, and he used regular paper but then painted a coat of sensitiser on top of the paper. The compositional technique that the photographer used was leading lines because the two bars lead into the middle, where the light is sitting. This draws your eyes to the middle of the paper then, and then back out to the edges. Elements of art that the artist used, was texture because you can really see the texture of the ocean in the background, meaning you can see the exact waves, and their crashing points. The artist also used space very well because they centered the light, and truly had a vocal point to their picture.

2. The second cyanotype that I found was a photogram/contact photo, and the artist is Brian van Glahn. He has a portfolio of different fruits printed as cyanotypes, which is very hard to do because of the details within the picture. But this photographer did his cyanotype in a different way than normal, because he took out the background and replaced it with 50% grey, so that the details of the fruit could be shown in the print. He printed it on normal paper, and used fill the frame because the object fills the entire frame, and is the main vocal point of the photo. The elements of art that he uses is color, because of the contrast of colors within the fruit.

3. The last cyanotype was photographed by Amanda Briggs, and is also a photogram/contact photo because the object looks almost like a ghost image. She also used regular paper, with the coat of sensitiser. This artist used leading lines because the lines of the branches lead you off into many different directions, and it makes the image much more interesting. The elements of art she used was texture because you can very well see the texture on the plant, but also color, because of how well the two colors contrast off each other.