I am going to have to try this again tomorrow when I have more sun light but I will forgo the developing process. This tutorial shows how easy the process of making a lumen print from a digital negative can be, without the need for a darkroom, making it suitable for begi. The beauty of lumens stems all the way back to the 1830s - before cameras existed. There is an image on the paper but it is extremely dark, as in black. I mixed up a batch of Caffenol and developed it for about ten minutes and then washed it with water and fixed it for 5min. I exposed that one for about 45min and then I found out why you don't develop these prints. The third is where it gets really interesting.
I really wanted to get a darker image than what I go from the first so I let the second expose for a longer period of time but it didn't darken up much over the first. The first to prints I did turned out fairly well if not very light in tone and value. I must say tho, that I had some fun with stuff just laying around the house and the sun as my UV source. A lumen print is a type of photograph created from exposing photographic paper directly to the sun, a method that originates from experiments dating back as early as the 19th Century. I use the standard fixing/washing times for RC or fiber based paper, depending on which I’m using. The print is placed into a fixer bath, which bleaches the print, then washed. I had been reading about Lumen prints, not really my thing but I decided to give it a try. Now that the print has been developed by The Sun, its time to bring it inside and remove the subject from the paper. Due to the Holiday's, I have had some time off and I decided to experiment with some old paper I had lying around with no immediate plans for.
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