VDB Apple

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  Vaughn

• Apr 23, 2008

Not shabby at all!

Have you played with salted prints yet?

Vaughn

 

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  davido

• Apr 23, 2008

this is good, especially for first time! If you want more of a black/brown platinum is your best bet. Gold is nice too, it goes a purplish brown. it's really amazing how much the particular paper effects the colour of the print, even with toner. I tone all my VDB's; they have better density and are more permanent.

-david

 

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  Akki14

• Apr 23, 2008

Vaughn - Not yet but I was thinking about it as I have some leftover silver nitrate around already from the VDB process.

davido - I'm not sure if we get platinum toner over here (and I'm fairly sure the platinum salts are only available at Bostick & Sullivan - yay! import fees ahoy!) I'll try it out on my other papers too. I have a large stockpile of papers from all my cyanotype testing...

 

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  Andrew Moxom

• Apr 23, 2008

Awesome print Heather. Great work indeed.

 

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  nze

• Apr 23, 2008

just tone it in platinum or palladium and it will turn as a platinum print.

 

• walter23

• Apr 23, 2008

I like the brown look.

 

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  michael9793

• Apr 23, 2008

Why?
This print hold it's own. The brown looks very rich and the print is outstanding

mike

 

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  Akki14

• Apr 23, 2008

I don't really like brown... I don't like warmtone prints or sepia or anything similar. But I wanted to try VDB because I liked the look of Wynn White's pictures on this page (where I got my directions from) http://www.alternativephotography.com/process_vandyke.html the pictures on that page don't look like this one. Those look hardly brown at all. I've tried goldtoning and it's just a slightly darker brown now. I'm not very happy with it.