One of my favorite lunch break spots near Moab along the Colorado River. 11x14 efke pl100 palladiium toned kallitype on stonehedge paper.
regards
erik
One of my favorite lunch break spots near Moab along the Colorado River. 11x14 efke pl100 palladiium toned kallitype on stonehedge paper.
regards
erik
Here's my latest and to date greatest print of this negative:
Kallitype Brown Print (Van Dyke), Fabriano Aristico. It looks a little lop-sided because the paper is too large for my scanner bed (epson 3200).
Thomas
Thanks Erik.
Practice does make perfect. In this case I discovered that I get consistent results from one print to the next by swirling the sensitizer before pouring enough to coat one sheet and pouring any remainder back in the bottle. I believe that procedure keeps the heavy metals dispersed in solution rather than sinking to the bottom of the container between pours.
I did not tone the above print and believe that the slight pinkish/red brown coloration is the natural color of the Van Dyke after developing and fixing. During exposure you can watch the tree limbs as well as the oncovered coated edges turn a chocolate brown after a minute or so but that is not the resulting coloration upon development. I have read that toning in selenium changes the red browns to a chocolate brown but in my limited experience toning with selenium before fixing rapidly bleaches the image. Maybe selenium tone after fixing? I do plan on gold toning and/or Palladium in the future.
Finally, I tried several different 140-lb HP papers with this batch and got the better results with FA. Lanaquraelle gave a stronger coloration but weaker Dmax.
Thomas
All three you've posted in the past couple of pages are excellent, Erik. I think this is my favorite, mainly because the texture of the paper comes through in the sky on my computer monitor. Another could well be my favorite in person.
I hadn't been to this thread in a long while, and then hadn't looked through it as careful as it clearly deserves. There is a lot of excellent, beautiful work here.
Thomas, I've had horrible success with selenium toning kallitypes, staining very badly. I've only tried it after fixing and washing but not before fixing like I do with pt/pd toning so I gave up on selenium toning. I like the lanaquarelle too but it was hard to clear with my methods compared to FA or stonehenge or some hahnemuhle papers I've tried. I don't mix the silver nitrate and FO together, they are only mixed together with a syringe for each solution right before coating. Does it make a difference, I don't know? Keep experimenting and sharing the results, it's useful imo.
regards
erik
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