[alt-photo] Re: SALT & COT 320

Bruce steelbar at shaw.ca
Sat Apr 10 17:31:04 GMT 2010


Hi Bob
On 2010-04-09, at 8:36 AM, BOB KISS wrote:

> DEAR CHRIS & LORIS,
> 	Thanks for your replies.  I also got a reply from Christopher James
> who said that the salt process needed a healthy amount of organic material
> (gelatin in this case) to be active or you will get very flat, pale prints.
> He said that COT didn't have enough.  So I will have to salt the paper ahead
> of time and tell them about it at the lecture/demo.
Just use the same method as the cooking shows use to shows long cooking times. Salt the print as normal and than pull out the print you pre-coated. Sort of like time laps video. They get to see the coating process but no waiting time. Walla, it's all magic.
Cheers
Bruce

>  Easy to describe and
> do.  I can bring the already salted paper and do the two silver nitrate
> coatings Christopher recommended, expose, and process.  Should be able to be
> done in 4 hours.  
> 	Thanks!




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