My first Albumen print

[bspeed]

well the best one out of the 1st 5 attempts this evening

as scanned.

[bspeed]

I found the brushing on of the Silver Nitrate the hardest part. this one I brushed on 3 coats, drying in between each one.

I did not have enough solution made up, to pour into a tray and float. I think I will have to do that.

But I am concerened about tray floating...
contamination from the paper/albumen, and how long will a larger ($$) amount of the Silver Nitrate keep. It would be nice to get a lot of prints made over a period of many months.....

[goamules]

Looks good, I haven't tried albumen...yet. If it's like my 9% silver nitrate bath for wetplate, it will keep for a very long time, but any water will evaporate out if you don't have a lid on it!

[bspeed]

thanks, I think its about 12%. recipe from Chris James book, Zoe Zimmerman section.

[Toyon]

What a beautiful process albumen is. I admire you for doing it.

[iozone]

WOW, that's so cool..

[David A. Goldfarb]

Looks better here than the one you posted in the APUG gallery--must be the file compression.

If you look in Reilly's book, which you can download for free from albumen.stanford.edu , he explains how to clear the silver nitrate solution with kaolin, which can be a bit tedious, but it means you can mix up a reasonable quantity of solution to fill up a large tray and reuse it.

It's hard to judge from a scan what's a brush mark and what's just the uneven paper surface, but floating will give you a more even result than brushing. The key is to float the paper on the solution in one smooth motion, so there are no wicking effects.

[venchka]

My Hero! I can witness the process and not get my hands wet! Thanks for sharing.

Are you making enlarged digital negatives first? Seems like that process is as difficult or more difficult to do properly than the contact printing.