Lumen prints

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Lumen Print Tutorial Lumen prints are an incredibly an incredibly rewarding way to introduce yourself to the world of contacting printing, the biggest plus in their favour is that you don’t really need a darkroom to get them to work. Head out into the garden with some shears, cut off some leaves, branches and flower […]

Lumen Print 1612 Daffodils by John Fobes: copyrighted all rights reserved

Lumen Print 15 Azalia. Print was copied with a digital camera before I fixed and toned this print with gold chloide. Zone VI Brilliant fiber based G3 8x10 paper.

Lumen Print 73 Iris. Print copied with a digital camera before being toned with gold chloride and archivally fixed. Kodak Ektalure 8x10 fiber base paper.

Lumen Print 1659 My Hand. Printed on Oriental Seagull G2 FB paper.

Lumen prints are created by placing the subject directly on the printing paper. This sandwich is then exposed to daylight for two to eight hours. The print is then fixed to prevent further change. These are one of a kind prints.

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During the pandemic, I decided to try Lumen Printing! You can see my print below made combining a digital negative, paired with botanicals from my yard. I printed on Ilford Fibre warmtone paper. The exposure times here in central Florida were 30 minutes of sunlight so the digital negative portion w