Salt Print

Very nice. Every time I see a well-executed salt print like this one I am inspired to get back to doing these.

Like this a lot. Nice contrast. I've seen some fairly flat salt prints. What's your negative like? Do you expose and develop especially for salt printing?

Hi Sly, I don't have any negs designed for salt as this was the first time I have done it. The negs I printed were all exposed and processed for regular silver gelatin work. I didn't use any thin negs, but these were not particularly dense either, just typical negs with good shadow detail and reasonably beefy highlights. I printed three of my 4x5 negs which all worked well and also a vintage glass negative that also printed well. I will upload that image to the gallery in the next few days.

Lovely print, especially as the neg was not made specifically for salt printing. Usually the negs need a fair bit of developing but I wonder if the intense Austalian sky light increased the contrast - open sky usually adds a little contrast.