Hey, you may have realized already, the blog software does a pretty bad job when creating the smaller versions of the images. The images for the last two weeks are a good examples for this. If you click on one of the images to get a view of the original image you will notice that [...]
So, this is the third in a series of three posts about making a kallitype print. In the last two parts I showed the setup and the test strip, today I will go for the final print.
So on the left is the coated and dry paper. The marks of the coating area are removed with [...]
OK, in the last post we cleaned beaker and brushes. Now the coated paper should be dry. Now let’s prepare the contact printing frame. Because of possible reflection I put a sheet of black paper under the negative/paper sandwich.
And since everything is a bit improvised I saved the cost of a good contact printing frame [...]
There was an interesting discussion on APUG about kallitypes and how they look like when exposed but not yet developed. So I promised to show an image of an undeveloped kallitype. Since I anyway wanted to print the dung fork again for a friend and since I had my digi gizmo with me in the [...]
I did some testing the other night. I never tried lith redevelopment before. So I wanted to give it a try and also did some regular prints which I toned. I used a negative from last year. Or was it the year before? I did 8 prints on Adox Fineprint Classic in 5×7″. Pretty small, [...]