The Kallitype Thread

[tgtaylor]

Hercules (1907) - San Francisco.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(1907)

Palladium-tone Kallitype 5x7 Contact print on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag (good paper!).

Thomas

[NedL]

NIce, Thomas!

[tgtaylor]

Thanks Ned. This is the first print that I have retained the brush strokes and am seriously considering continuing. This will require using the 11x14/15 size for 8x10 and will almost double the paper cost from $1.20/sheet to $2.27/sheet and raises a mounting problem. But the dark border of the sensitizer looks appealing and also makes the print appear to be larger than it is.

Thomaas

[NedL]

I've been going the other direction lately.... first I started masking when applying sensitizer so the dark border was neat and no splatters get out into the margins, then lately I've been using rubylith to avoid borders completely. When I started using the rubylith, I thought I would make one mask for each negative size, but I find myself usually cutting a new mask for each print, just a 1/4" or 3/8" difference here or there. Now I cut off the "wings" from the end of the film holder so the image is a perfect rectangle, and make slight cropping adjustments on the edges. I just recently made my first print on 11x15 and it was a lot more difficult than I expected, in all phases of making the print! Before that I had been using sizes up to 9x12, which are easier to handle in the tray, etc. I can see the appeal of the brush marks, or perfectly clean borders, or leaving the film holder shape... all depends on what you want. Looking forward to trying that new paper myself. Have fun!

[karl french]

I'm finding keeping the paper within an inch of each dimension of negative makes a significant difference in terms of print sharpness when using a printing frame. So, I've been trimming the paper to 10x12 for 8x10 negatives lately.

[tgtaylor]

Mariposa County Courthouse (1854).



Built on land deeded to Mariposa County by John Fremont for $1 at at time when the county consisted of several future counties - Merced, Mono, San Benito, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Inyo, Kern and parts of Ventura - the courthouse is the oldest in California and the oldest courthouse west of the Rockies still in use. http://www.sierranevadageotourism.or...4bb5fb79608b57

Palladium-toned Kallitype printed on Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag paper.

Thomas

[Andrew O'Neill]

Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe, Scotland by Andrew O'Neill, on Flickr

Gold toned. Hahnemuhle platinum rag. Very nice paper to work with.

[tgtaylor]

Standard Stamp Mill, Bodie 2016.



Palladium-toned Kallitype taken with a Schneider 360mm Symmar-S lens and printed on Bergger Cot 320. There is a very subtle tone on the print that the scanner can't pick-up without screwing everything up so I scanned it in grey mode. The upper left is a wispy cloud from part of the garbage seen drifting in.

Thomas

[Holdenrichards]

Kallitype on Hahnemuhle platinum rag



NOT a digital negative! This is from a film negative silver print being contact printed onto an x-ray negative
It gives the necessary curve bump to a good normal print...

[Andrew O'Neill]

I could be wrong but I think the original image has to have been captured with a LF camera first....
At any rate, I've also used x-ray to contact print Kallitypes and Carbon Transfers, after enlarging smaller formats on it up to 4x5. The resulting positive is then once again contact printed onto x-ray, usually green latitude, double-sided. Works quite well. How did you do yours?