Sunday, February 26, 2017

Follow up Kallitype

I made this Kallitype print the same day I printed "Barrel on Main Street", as the negatives for both images were printed at the same time. The treatment was the same. This image has much more highlight areas and textural middle tones than most other images. The bricks above the two cowboys are white, representing Zone 7, which has been the trickiest tonal range to get right in the printing.

I am learning the subtleties of the faint image showing up during printing, how much is actually printed in. One might say a similar exercise in visual inspection of a negative during development, using paracriptol green, likely misspelled. The latent image can be seen, if you know what you're looking for. Kim Weston knows about that, having developed 850 8x10 negatives his father sent him one summer for developing using visual inspection. Makes digital negative work laughably easy by comparison.

Palladium toned Kalllitype
"Longhorn Restaurant" ~ 8x10 ~ 1/5
Tombstone, Arizona

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