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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

FIRST SALT PRINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

First print, reasonably happy with it. Plenty of mistakes, silver nitrate splashes, paper damage from tape, put the paper in backwards (flipped after 6 minutes exposure - oops!).
25 minute exposure
Started out a dark purple, ended a lighter pink.
Sodium Chloride Salt sensitizer, 2%.
Silver Nitrate 15%
Gold Toning
 
Photo. Lay-Auh smiles, THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP, Mae St Thailand, 2015

Note* Negative is an old contrasty digi neg I made 2 years ago using a platinum-palladium curve.

 
In Salt wash bath after exposure, deep purple print
Finished wet print, much lighter and pink
After second coating (Silver Nitrate)
Neg used.
2 different salts sensitizers, Sodium Chloride 2% and Potassium Chloride 1.5%. Both with gelatin added