Cooking Up a Photo

I have been very busy over the last couple of weeks with work and preparations for Christmas, hence the lack of any posts. Saying that, I have managed to spend some time on customising my cyanotype setup. I really didn't enjoy the results I was getting, with very variable contrast and limited tonal range.
I therefore decided to create a customised curve and find a perfect blocking colour for my combination of printer, inks and transparencies. I am now much more satisfied with the results, which will follow shortly.
Here is my curve:

… and my colour (ff0d0d):

… and finally,  this is how my digital negative looks like:

The setup was really straight forward, just a little time consuming. All instructions can be found here:

Digital Negative Setup