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[KYsailor]

Couple more salts - different subject matter than earlier ones but same process:

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Lotus Flower and Pod / Washington DC


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Turbulence & Stillness / Frederick, MD.

:Niranjan.

Niranjan,

Beautiful prints and wonderful images - every time you display some of your salt prints I tell myself I need to learn this process.


Dave

 

[nmp]

Niranjan,

Beautiful prints and wonderful images - every time you display some of your salt prints I tell myself I need to learn this process.


Dave

Thanks, Dave. Much appreciated.

Salt prints are kind of special - it's the first process I wanted to try ever since I came across the alternative process world. It took me a while to reach at this point, with a long detour into the digital world in the mean time. Jump into it. Barrier to entry is low. You already have all the ingredients since you already do kallitpes. There is a lot of institutional knowledge here for help if need be.

:Niranjan.

 

[fgorga]

Niranjan,

Beautiful prints and wonderful images - every time you display some of your salt prints I tell myself I need to learn this process.


Dave

Dave,

I agree with Niranjan (post #152) if you are already doing kallitype the barrier to making salt prints is low.

Additionally, you might consider getting Chris Anderson's book on salted paper printing (https://www.routledge.com/Salted-Pa...mporary-Artists/Anderson/p/book/9781138280229) it has clear instructions for 'plain old' salt prints plus pretty much every variant known. Lots of good info there as well as in all the books in that series.

 

[fgorga]

Couple more salts - different subject matter than earlier ones but same process:

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Lotus Flower and Pod / Washington DC


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Turbulence & Stillness / Frederick, MD.

:Niranjan.

Wonderful... pure and simple!

 

[nmp]

Wonderful... pure and simple!

Thank you, Frank.

:Niranjan.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

Here is small slightly toned cyanotype on Thai Kozo. Very difficult paper to work with but the prints are nice.

 

[Rolleiflexible]

Here is small slightly toned cyanotype on Thai Kozo. Very difficult paper to work with but the prints are nice.

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That is just spectacular. The light, the color, the composition: masterful.

 

[koraks]

Yup, I agree. That's really something.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

That is just spectacular. The light, the color, the composition: masterful.

Jeez Sanders. Thanks. If you like it that much I know what to get you for Christmas. Lol.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

Cyanotype on Crane's Cover. Toned, obviously.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

Here is another cyanotype on Thai Kozo. I've made over 100 prints in the last week because of the exchange. Trying to get things dialed in. I've been working on cyanotypes for the last almost 5 years in pretty consistent spurts. I feel like I am finally getting somewhere.

 

[Rolleiflexible]

I feel like I am finally getting somewhere.

You have a gift for understatement. These are awesome! Looking forward to the Yule season.

 

[KYsailor]

Those are all beautiful cyanotypes, can I ask what you are using to tone them?

 

[awty]

8 x10 F250 pinhole camera 35 minute exposure. Aristra edu 100, compensated for reciprocity. Developed in Pyrocat HD 2+2+100 for 10 mins in drum roller. Dense negative.
Handmade Vandyke Brown sensitiser on Hahnemuhle 300 Platinum Rag. contact print, 45 minutes under UV lamp, 5 bath wash, 4 minutes in gold toner, fixer, hypo, wash, dry.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

Those are all beautiful cyanotypes, can I ask what you are using to tone them?

Tea

 

[Patrick Robert James]

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8 x10 F250 pinhole camera 35 minute exposure. Aristra edu 100, compensated for reciprocity. Developed in Pyrocat HD 2+2+100 for 10 mins in drum roller. Dense negative.
Handmade Vandyke Brown sensitiser on Hahnemuhle 300 Platinum Rag. contact print, 45 minutes under UV lamp, 5 bath wash, 4 minutes in gold toner, fixer, hypo, wash, dry.

Very nice.

I never understood the difference between Vandyke Brown, Salt, and Kallitypes.

 

[awty]

Very nice.

I never understood the difference between Vandyke Brown, Salt, and Kallitypes.

Aesthetically I would add PP when gold toned if done well, although I do like it when people say platinum palladium, especially if you ask them to say it five times quickly.

 

[awty]

VDB on grease proof paper, backed with fake gold leaf, painted with matt PU.
Print doesnt scan too well, but has a nice glow.

 

[MattKing]

awty:
Your two recent uploads look great.
But for me, they display really slowly! So I'm guessing that the files may be really big!

 

[juan]

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VDB on grease proof paper, backed with fake gold leaf, painted with matt PU.
Print doesnt scan too well, but has a nice glow.

What is grease proof paper? I'm not familiar with the term. Maybe a brand name or how it is normally used?

 

[awty]

What is grease proof paper? I'm not familiar with the term. Maybe a brand name or how it is normally used?

Baking paper.

 

[awty]

awty:
Your two recent uploads look great.
But for me, they display really slowly! So I'm guessing that the files may be really big!

Already shrunk them, you need to top up your internet meter.

 

[nmp]

Very nice.

I never understood the difference between Vandyke Brown, Salt, and Kallitypes.

You mean aesthetically or chemically?

Great cyanos by the way....love the curvy shadow.

:Niranjan.

 

[nmp]

Baking paper.

Hi, awty:

Is that like the parchment paper as it is known in the US. At least the one I have is very non-absorbent to water (I think it is silicone coated.) Is yours similar and if so, did you have to do anythig to make the paper take the sensitizer well? Also is it translucent enough for the gold foil to come through or did you have to apply some wax or similar to make it more so?

:Niranjan.

 

[MattKing]

Already shrunk them, you need to top up your internet meter.

Fascinating.
They were loading incredibly slow yesterday - much slower than other images.
Today they load normally.
Maybe the internet elves slowed them down so they could look at them .