I did some lith prints of some images you already know as kallitypes, so it is some old friends showing up again. You can see them here in this post. But this post is not about these images, it is more about something I thought about when spending the usual 8 minutes development time per [...]
So here it is, my contribution to WPPD 2010. My daughter and my mother did a sightseeing flight today and the rest of the family waited at the small airport. I used the time to take some images of the gliders there. Here is the one I like most – D-4305.
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 [...]