Salt Printing Process: My First Time!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 เม.ย. 2024
- Come along and lets make a salt print. This process is so easy, resulting in beautiful prints with a native tone that I quite like. I'll use one of the Adox CMS 20 4x5 negatives from the previous video for the test print. I'll throw in the link to that video here, in the description. Lets go!
(It was pointed out by a viewer of an exposure time unit error that I made at 07:20. The unit should be in minutes, not seconds!)
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When I get time this is the stuff I want to do. Been out of wet photography for decades. Oh I also need to set up a darkroom before that.
Thats a really nice looking print Andy, thanks for the inspiration....again!!!
I have been playing with salted paper printing as well.
I am using Arches Aquarelle for my paper and xray film in D23 replenished
I have a salt printing kit that I've been putting off trying. You're inspiring me to break it out and give it a go!
Do it!
Salt printing is my favorite alternative process. It was the first alt process I tried. Great video Andy!
awesome, I will try. I did my first cyanotype right now.
Salt printing is easy like cyanotypes. Cyanotypes is another one that I wonder why I didn't try much earlier.
@@analogueandy8x10 that's fun, I will try tea toning.
I'll have to give this a whirl!
You should really gold tone the prints! It’s spendy, but the prints look gorgeous with gold
I agree. I have actually been doing that. They even look nice in Selenium. Thanks!
As usual, very interesting video
@07:20: You mean minutes right ? Not seconds
Have a nice sunday
Yes! Thank you for catching that! Minutes, not seconds... 🤭My mind must have been stuck on the Printmaker's Friend prints that I have also been working on. All exposures with PMF are in seconds. Thank's for letting me know! I'll write the correction in the description.
An interesting and seemingly easy process, once you have the density range established and exposure established. A couple of questions if I may: Can you apply the silver nitrate in subdued artificial light such as a 25W ceiling light and dry it in the same light? Secondly might this process even with Hahnemulle rag paper be no more expensive that buying RC paper and processing conventionally?
Thanks
Yes, you can coat the salted paper with Ag under a 25W bulb. I have always let the sensitised paper dry in the dark, as instructed. I heard that it may fog if you don't. To be honest, I haven't given it much thought about price comparisons between conventional and Alt. printing. I'm struck more by its look and feel. I got into Alt. printing just before pricing of RC (and fibre based) papers got crazy. There are cheaper papers out there. Revere Platinum is a bit cheaper than Hahnemuhle (I've been using it more and more). Then there are even cheaper papers like Stonehenge, that work but first must be acidified, to knock out the alkaline based sizing. Thanks for commenting!
Thanks for the reply @@analogueandy8x10
I use this process alot, i like it the best with ammonium chloride instead of sodium, and then tone in gold, I feel that the selenium is just braking the picture down.
I'll give ammonium chloride a go. Thanks!
Selenium doesn't increase the Dmax like gold chloride, but it does change the colour, which I find pleasing. A very dilute solution (1+100) doesn't appear to be breaking the print down. It's the same dilution I use for Kallitypes.
I'm learning salt too! Since it's a self-masking process, did you happen to try doing a third print for 27 or 30 minutes to burn in the highlights? I'm playing with that aspect since I don't have a densitometer so I just work with the negs I have.
I'm a little weary doing any manipulation of the print during exposure under the UV light. I think I need to better tailor the negatives to the process. But... I might try making dodge/burn masks that I can register with the negative during the exposure. I did this often when I did a lot of gelatin silver printing under the enlarger.
@@analogueandy8x10 I expressed myself badly. I just meant trying another print but just exposing it longer. The self-masking quality of salt lets me go a good bit longer that I might expect to get better detail in the highlights.
@@creepysvids Gotcha! No, I didn't try it for that long. I'll give it a go. Thanks!
Ive heard of salted caramels…but prints!?
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