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KYsailor said:
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
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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.
 

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KYsailor said:
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
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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.
 

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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.


 

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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.
 

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Very nice.

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

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Patrick Robert James said:
Very nice.

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

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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!
 
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awty said:
Baking paper.
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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.
 

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