Re: Heat-toning salt prints?
OOh man oh man, I am at a hotel in Key Largo that charges $10 per day internet use so I am gonna get my money's worth today, dammit! Sandy, I exposed salt for 6 minutes or less UVBL and it was fine, in fact, I felt it was speedier than other processes I tried. I also was impressed at the beauty and detail of the process. I bought a kit from Photographer's Formulary and I can't remember if it had the ammonium chloride salt or not in it, but it was a pretty stupendous process IMHO. The tonal range of salt rivaled pt/pd--in fact, is called Poor Man's Platinum if I remember correctly. As far as staining, that was so paper specific, and one had to be sure to coat only the front or anomalies occurred--so i brush coated the salting solution on the front--no laying on top of the salt bath or anything. Chris ----- Original Message Follows ----- From: Sandy King <sanking@clemson.edu> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: Re: Heat-toning salt prints? Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:12:36 -0400 >There are chapters on salted paper in John Barnier's Coming >into Focus, Christopher James' The Book of Alternative >Photographic Processes and in Richard Farber's Historic >Photographic Processes. > >There is also an article here: >http://www.alternativephotography.com/process_saltprints.html > >I experimented with salted paper some years ago but never >completely solved the staining issue. Also, salted paper >printing requires a very powerful light source and I found >that the sun worked much better than a bank of BL tubes. > >Sandy King > > > >At 9:56 PM -0400 3/11/07, Joseph Smigiel wrote: >>On Mar 11, 2007, at 8:41 PM, richard jones wrote: >>... >>> >>>also, anyone know of any books dedicated to the salt >>printing process? ... >> >>James Reilly, "The Albumen and Salted Paper Book" online >>here: >>http://albumen.stanford.edu/library/monographs/reilly/ > Assistant Professor of Photography Photography Option Coordinator Montana State University College of Arts and Architecture Department of Media and Theatre Arts, Room 220 P.O. Box 173350 Bozeman, MT 59717-3350 Tel (406) 994 6219 CZAphotography.com
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