I'm embarking on a pinhole/zone plate/argyrotype project, so I thought I'd start a thread for Alt. Proc. images. I played around with Platinum/Palladium a few years ago, but with money getting tight I decided to go with a cheaper process for now. I was originally going to print in Kallitypes, but decided to try Argyrotypes first because it seemed like a simpler process for me to cut my teeth on.
This is the best of the 4 prints I made last night from a good-but-not-great negative that I used because it did not matter if I managed to destroy the negative by not drying the sensitizer enough, etc. Despite the fact that I didn't like the neg that much, I think the resulting print has a pastoral feel to it that I like.
The neg was shot in a Leonardo 3" 4x5 camera on Acros @ EI 50 (12 second exposure). Developed in Pyrocat-HD 1:1:100 for 36 minutes. Printed on Cranes Cover paper with the Bostick & Sullivan Argyrotype sensitizer, 9 minute exposure with a black light bulb. Toned in KRST 1:100.
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