Marcos+Ortega+Cyanotype+Research

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All three of these images were made by Anna Atkins, one of the first people to use photographic images in her books. Born in 1799, she grew up to be a Botanist and Photographer.

Because these are some of the first cyanotypes, it's really cool to see how simple the images were back then. The neatness of the images is surprising, especially considering how when you look close, the images aren't that rough on the curves or anything. The contrast was good because the images don't look faded and the white on the blue is very defined. With that, I think she did a very good job of filling the frame, not really having to much empty space. For the rule of thirds, there's interesting stuff all over the images, so she also did very well on that part. For the media, I could not find information on what she printed on, because her only cyanotypes are from the 1800's, so most of her images didn't survive, but the ones above were meant to be the cover of a book, so they were more than likely made out of something more durable.