Sunday, January 14, 2024

First Salt Image of the Day!

First effort Salt Print today. Salt prints are a 1830s process invented by Englishman Henry Fox Talbot. The first photographic print. Beauty Stuff!!!!

Calcium Chloride salt sentizer 2%

Silver Nitrate 15%

Citric Acid


30 minute Exposure


3 salt washes for 3 minutes 

Gold Toner 1 minute 30 seconds 

5% hypo 2 minutes (PH 9)

Hypo Clear 4 minutes 

Wash 10 minutes

Photo: The Woo family in their dump home, THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP, Mae Sot, Thailand, 2017

Made with a 5x7 Linhof camera on Tri-x film with a 120mm Nikkor Lens