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[cjbroadbent]

another Bromoil from an old Type 55 film. Just some tulips..

Superlative!

[cjbroadbent]

"On it's side" - a palladium print


One issue with the metal-based processes (pd/pt, cyanotypes, kallitypes etc) is that the image sinks into the paper.
This affects the clarity of the image.
In an effort to alleviate this, I have recently started sizing the paper for these prints with gum or gelatin.
For the above print, I sized the paper with gelatin.

Lens - Voigtlander Portrait Euryscope, Series II, No 7 at f4
Film - Kodak green Xray film developed with Rodinal in Jobo
This is a pure palladium print with a drop of 5% ammonium dichromate for contrast.

This is a wonderful image.
A way round the sizing problem is to cheat and use a cotton digital print paper - there seems to just the right amount of sizing.

[ndg]

Hi CJ! Long time! Hope all is well. Thanks for the kind words. Please recommend a cotton digital print paper.

[hendrik faure]

Hendrik, another nice photogravure.

Nana Dadzie, thank you!
for my part, I delivered the picture shown on page 12 of Still-Life Images, 2015 thread.
But then publisher stated that they never accept b&w pictures. So I inked the plate a la poupée:

a way to avoid Adobe Photoshop CC;
but better than monochrome??? (critics welcome as always)
hendrik

[ndg]

Hendrik, I prefer the monochrome version but that is just me. You did a good job inking it a la poupee though!

[Emil Schildt]

Four young people has been at my place for making a 3-5 min film about me - painting with light - darkroom and Bromoil printing.... My GOD it took a loooong time...
In the end they recorded the entire inking at the image I had made in this film...

As impossible as the scanning was, I still like the result... Eniola was kind and patient enough to pose for this portrait..

Multicolored Bromoil (pol 665 - painted with light)

[Andrew O'Neill]

I can only think of one word. Beautiful! Now how about the video. Do we get to see it?

[Emil Schildt]

I can only think of one word. Beautiful! Now how about the video. Do we get to see it?

yes - they send it to me when finished, and then I'll let you see too - curious to see how it turns out...

[ndg]

Four young people has been at my place for making a 3-5 min film about me - painting with light - darkroom and Bromoil printing.... My GOD it took a loooong time...
In the end they recorded the entire inking at the image I had made in this film...

As impossible as the scanning was, I still like the result... Eniola was kind and patient enough to pose for this portrait..

Multicolored Bromoil (pol 665 - painted with light)

Emil, that is gorgeous.

[koraks]

4x5 TMX contact print, ferric ammonium oxalate cyanotype. Schneider 75/8. TMX is a b*tch to contact print due to its UV blocking base, so printing times are quite long: I think this was 9 minutes at a distance of about an inch with a 50W face tanner unit. Other negatives (both printed and real ones) take about 2-3 minutes at a distance of 8 inches, so the difference is quite a few stops.