Re: salt prints - at last!

They look great, Judy! Keep up the good work and I hope to see some 3x4
prints soon, too :-)

jude.taylor@comcast.net wrote:

>Greetings,
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>Although I am in the midst of renovating my web site, I have a couple of pages ready and would like to report that I have now come up with a consistent (more-or-less :-) procedure for salt printing that is working well for my situation. Two of a series of 3 images of a piece of farm equipment are posted.
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>Also posted is my procedure for developing 3.25 x 4.25 sheet-film negs from my vintage Voigtlander Avus...the whole set-up cost less than $6, is working great, and may be of interest to others. No prints from the negs yet...but soon! The Avus is great fun!
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>To see either go to:
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>www.enduringibis.com
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>Select "Photo Art" from the left nav bar, then Salt Prints to see the prints (yellow arrows are the links) or scroll on down and select "Sheet Film" (then the Procedure link) for the $6 set-up!
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>The original negatives for the two salt images posted were made with a vintage Argoflex E twin lens reflex camera (ca. 1947 version of this model). I scanned the 60 cm x 60 cm in-camera negs (with Epson 3170), enlarged in Photoshop and then cropped these two images to a size I wanted to print. Image No.3 is uncropped (I amazed myself by getting the composition I was after, considering the ground-glass focusing screen of the old Argoflex is very very dim, especially around the edges), but, alas, the first digineg was way too contrasty. Back to that one later....Diginegs were prepared using Clay Harmon's procedure (modified a bit - orange ink R190 G64 B0 for image; black border as mask as I wanted crisp edges for these particular prints) and printed with Epson 2200 on Pictorico OHP. My UV light box is fitted with six 13-watt screw-in fluorescent BLBs. Exposure time was 17 minutes. I also tried palladium toning one print and really like the warm tone; however, the final im
> age was a little too light so will try a bit longer exposure next time.
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>My salt printing steps evolved from reading about this process in three references (Webb & Reed, Christopher Janes and Wynn White) along with some trial and error! It is an amalgam of the three plus some technique that works for my set-up. As everyone else says, fixing and clearing are critical.
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>Cheers!
>Judy
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>Judy Rowe Taylor
>Mukilteo, WA
>Art is a voice of the heart, a song of the soul.
>www.enduringibis.com
>jude.taylor@comcast.net or judyrowetaylor@enduringibis.com
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Received on Tue Nov 8 15:23:21 2005