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[tgtaylor]

8x10 Print. Original shot on 4x5 velvia. CMYK separation plates made printed with extra layer of blue and black. Printed on Rives BFK

Excellent!

[tgtaylor]

Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco



Shot on Delta 100 printed on Rives BFK as a Van Dyke.

Thomas

[Zaitz]

Some help from the pros is appreciated! I switched to Kallitype. I printed out a step wedge from light to dark 21 steps. Exposed it for 20min. It seems to need that amount of time to get through the dense portions of the negative. But the falloff is incredibly strong. Is this normal? Anything past step 4 is very dark. I've got black and white and nothing in between! Or so it seems to me.



I tried to closely match the actual print with the scan. After step 10 (from the left) it is hard to see any delineation between steps.

Pictorico OHP
10% Silver / 20% Ferric oxalat- Bostick solution
No dichromate
Sodium Thiosulfate fixer
Ammonium Citrate developer
EDTA clearing agent
On Arches Platine.

[Zaitz]

Oh come on guys! The solution was simple! Because I am an idiot I for some reason completely forgot I was supposed to apply the Epson 2200 correction curve . Took me a handful of wasted prints before I remembered. I'm pretty dang good at this alt process stuff.... Before I remembered about the correction curve I realized the negatives weren't dense enough. So I tried fiddling with them myself. Took forever to get mediocre prints. Then found the correction curve again and the print was immediately 10x better.

A few questions though. There are many guides for Kallitypes. Some state to use EDTA before fixing and some after, most after. Wolfgang Moersch recommends citric acid after developing and before fixing. Would my Fomacitro stop bath diluted work? It says it's citric acid. He also doesn't list it as necessary to use EDTA or equivalent after fixing. But I'll use anything that reduces washing times!

[tgtaylor]

Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco 2



I reprinted this on Cranes Platinotype this afternoon adding potassium dichromate to the development. It's noticeably better to my eye. I'm thinking of toning it tomorrow in very dilute (1:100) selenium.

Thomas

[Andrew O'Neill]

Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe, Scotland. Carbon transfer print. Digital negative made from 4x5 HP5. I shot this back in June of 2000. I really want to go back!

[Zaitz]

Palladium toned Kallitype - St Paul Cathedral:


Original is on 4x5 HP5
4x5 scanned and edited in CS5
Negative printed on Pictorico OHP
Kallitype on Arches Platine developed in Ammonium Citrate
Palladium toned

[Scott Schroeder]

4X10 Lith Contact print

[csant]

8x10. Verito. Gum over platinum.

Larger image and more info over at Flickr.

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Hard to follow Claudio's beautiful portrait. Beautiful! Here is a shot from Bridalveil Creek shot on the 27th of December. No snow in the valley but the ice sure was nice. 8x10 carbon transfer print.