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Don’t do it. It’s a dog. Buy Bostic and Sullivan

Nice!

B&S kit includes:

Ferric Oxalate Solution #1 - 25 ml
Palladium Solution #3 - 25 ml
5% Sodium Platinum Solution Na2 - 10 ml
4 plastic droppers
32 oz. Ammonium Citrate Developer
500 g EDTA...

Good place to start, no real reason to do anything different.

Maybe fidelity isn't the point. Different aesthetic. if you were to represent an animistic spiritual connection with nature and communicate it on paper what better way than with platinum palladium....

Correction: Takeshi Shikama

Just for fun - compare and contrast with the work of Takashi Shikama.

Does anyone know the image circle of this lens? Does it cover 8x10? Thanks - Pete

What's a sloshed?

Astoria!

Picasso would have his children pee on his sculptures...

Have you tried Charles Hartman / Portland?

I've been comparing prints recently and my conclusion is both are best, both are valid, both are the artifact / result of a complex process. I print pt / pd from digital negatives. To get a good...

Photography is a funny medium. I just tossed "The Family of Man" on the car seat to return to the library. I think any one of the images in that book have a life of their own, and communicate...

Tyler - you're the culprit! I've been racking my brain, searching the net, trying to figure out the basis of that conversation. I'm getting senile. You bet I want to work this one through! It...

Adjusting the the color balance in RGB works quite nicely, somewhat less impactive the twirling the kitty. The discussion so far is helping me define my question(s). If you have a web site what do...

Like I said: "silly me", I sold my digital equipment to finance the pt / pd.

I need to submit a digital file of a platinum print to a local gallery and silly me thought I just needed to scan the print. Beautiful tones but lousy image. Too much paper texture and loss of...

Am I missing something? I just ordered a bunch. My tests from sample packs printed beautifully. Why the acid treatment?

Thanks - Pete

Cletus, Jim, Vaughn, thanks for the input. It's all helpful to pick through some of the many variables. I'm sure there are other folks out there asking some of the same questions.

I've been...

I love warm tone look too. Ian Leake has a wonderful subtle touch. I have no fear of dark tone neutral.

I have Arentz book. He seems pretty fussy about measurement.

Enjoyed your work Philippe! Thanks

I'd like to try out this method having tried and experienced the short comings of the "ratio" method. Looking for smooth grain in the highlights and trying to avoid dichromate. My Internet searches...

How do you store / file system your Pictorico OHP negatives?

Thanks - Pete

Thanks - back at it tomorrow....

I've been playing with digital negatives and printing kallitypes with Bostic & Sullivan kit. Some dismal failures, but also a couple killer keepers.

The instructions with the kit read "advanced...

This reads a little like Ann Rand vs the karate kid.

But I get it. I am at a certain age that I realize that life is short, but that peace is possible "in the moment". I photographed this...

SV45Ti is a very nice camera. Very versatile. I use a Fuji 450 mounted on a standard board frequently. Tilt the back and front outward and use whatever rise needed to frame the subject and blast...

Thanks for the heads up - Pete

Do you save all your negatives or do you dump the dogs and maybe the maybes?

Helen,

Wow!

I have never given any advice here but...

View at 100% - radius low like Lenny says .2. Unless you like crunchy images

Thanks!

If I were focusing on a flower 2" in diameter with a 180mm macro lens at 2:1 how much bellows extension would I need? How do you arrive at the answer?

Can I redirect the question? I'm looking at a subjective result of a technology that doesn't seem to exist today in large format lenses. What changed?

Bingo, thank you, it was the Symmar convertable. I recently reprinted some images from that lens and it has some similarities to the Artar. Smooth, low contrast, and sharp.

So we have early...

Copal 3 shutter, SK Grimes.

To the best of my knowledge the chronology was Symmar - Symmar S - APO Symmar. The lens I had was a Symmar, small portable lens?

I've been shooting with "modern lenses" for the last 3 or so years ( B&W 4x5 and 5x7). Recently I bought a 14" Red Dot Artar and it just knocks my socks off. Smooth creamy mid and high tone...

I'm old. The only thing getting wider on me is my middle, but lenses; I love all flavors!

My introduction to Robert Adams was a photograph of San Timoteo Canyon looking from a hillside in Redlands toward LA. I think it was taken in the '70's. I played there as a kid and it was...