Showcase for Your HCWP's

[FotoD]

Much obliged, FotoD—I had not really read too much about “high temperature“ salting, but it certainly seems worth trying.

Yes, the high temperature is mostly important for melting the gelatin. It'll stay liquid even if the temperature drops a bit during coating.

The gelatin can give a little extra depth to the print as the silver sits more on top of the paper.

The drawback is that if you salt both sides of the paper with gelatin it tends to fog more easily. Probably because it won't clear as well.

 

[CreationBear]

Very interesting, somewhat akin to “humidity control” in pt/pd I guess—definitely food for thought!

 

[KYsailor]

I was able to make a few new prints. It is funny how much we forget when we aren't exercising the knowledge. Getting back on track though. I still need to calibrate the negatives for each paper but that is so dull and I just have fun printing by best guess, though that results in a lot of waste. I did do a deep dive with the thousand or so prints I've made. Decided to limit the number of papers I use to make life simpler. My selections ended up being Kozo, Hosho, Somerset and Revere Platinum for cyanotype. Fabriano Studio for salt prints. Stonehenge for Gum and Gum overs. Fabriano Unica for Cuprotype. I like Bergger COT but I was buying the 16x20 and cutting it down. There were a lot of seams in the paper that were annoying. They showed up as a ripple and I couldn't get them flat. Otherwise it is a good paper. Maybe I'l try it in smaller sizes.

The first one is on Kozo. The second is on Bergger COT.
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Very nice, I especially like the second - the mathematics of the image: 2 chairs-3 palms-4 windows is fascinating. I will have to try Stonehenge for gum. I have only used HPR and and some pre shrunk CansonBristolXL I had laying around. with so-so results ( primarily due to my color choices). Again very nice