FilmAnalysis · 照片背后的故事

蓝晒:铁盐里的蓝色

从照片出发,读一段摄影史。故事和照片之间只是阅读上的联想,不代表照片的作者、相机或实际用的胶卷。

1842 · 摄影史

1842 年,赫歇尔发明了蓝晒法。纸上涂铁盐溶液,曝光后用清水冲洗,就留下蓝色的影像。

做蓝晒不一定要相机。把叶子或布料直接放在纸上晒,就能得到它的轮廓。蓝晒因此常被用来复制图纸,也用来记录植物。

不妨试试

找一片边缘复杂的叶子,先看外轮廓,再看叶脉。如果只剩下轮廓,哪些特征还能认出来?这是练习看形状,不是在判断某张照片用了什么工艺。

「不妨试试」是编辑设计的练习,不是史实。

资料出处

接着读

一张底片,印出许多张照片

晒在阳光下的盐纸照片

相纸上的蛋清

故事卡与徽章分开收藏。为照片评分仍按原有规则收集徽章。

FilmAnalysis · Stories behind the frame

Blue from iron salts

Read a little photographic history. These connections suggest ways to look; they say nothing about authorship, cameras or the physical film stock.

1842 · History

In 1842 John Herschel invented the cyanotype. Paper coated with iron salts is exposed to light and washed in water, leaving a blue image.

No camera is needed. A leaf or a piece of fabric laid on the paper leaves its outline, which is why cyanotype was used to copy plans and to record plants.

Try this

Take a leaf with a complicated edge. Look at the outline, then the veins. If only the silhouette remained, what could you still recognise? This is practice in reading shape, not a way to identify a process.

"Try this" is an exercise written by the editors, not history.

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