I reprints mine yesterday morning to get rid of the processing stain visble in the upper left hand corner. This time I came it perfect with a better tone (sepia). Gong to mount and frame it after work today.
Thomas
I reprints mine yesterday morning to get rid of the processing stain visble in the upper left hand corner. This time I came it perfect with a better tone (sepia). Gong to mount and frame it after work today.
Thomas
You are picky. I like that. I am refining my latest salt-print too and spent seven hours yesterday tweaking the silver, the gold toning and the processing. LOOOOTS of variables with salt. No two are alike, that is for sure.
Shailendra
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Thanks Shailendra.
I printed this as a salt print a couple of months ago but didn't burn in the top-half which, IMM, left it unbalanced. I was explaining that to Jim Andrada at a Starbucks in San Francisco when he was in town and he spilled a little coffee on it which wiped right off. The 2d printing came out perfect.
Thomas
So...help me with this one...
Longer exposures have more contrast?
Yes, short exposures have less contrast, long more and apparently the extremes have reciprocity failure too.
David Cary
www.milfordguide.nz
Whole Plate on Fabriano
David Cary
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Ok, cool. In an attempt to squeeze some more contrast out of my negative/print I'm switching to 12% Silver Nitrate down from 20%. In my first test last night I am seeing that the 12% is significantly 'slower', thus will need a longer exposure. I was wondering if the longer exposure would add contrast, so I am cautiously optomistic.
Thanks mdm!
Longer exposures add contrast. Not huge amounts, but some. This is also true of film.
According to Ellie Young in her book increasing silver from 12 to 15% increases contrast, prints cooler , improves highlight detail and looses shadow detail. 20% is the same again, so you may be out of luck. Less light though could help and so could a tiny amount of potassium dichromate.
David Cary
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