Palladium Print ~ Tombstone

The second image printed "Looking down Main Street", is another view of Tombstone's main street from across the street, looking back. Both shots were captured during a very brief spell in tourist activity. The trade off for me was either having the streets peopled in the scene, which would be expected of a town, unless it was a ghost town, or, a more historical look at a historical town, sans people. No need to say which way I went with that either/or battle.

Both of these prints were printed on Revere Platinum paper. Having used Arches Platine for numerous images I find the Revere paper equally effective for hand coated printing in precious metals. I am using the standard 10% silver to 20% oxalate coating mixture, and developing in sodium acetate, the 'black' developer. Sodium citrate is the warm brown developer. There are others, if you like the plum color range or sepia look. I'm using EDTA for the clearing bath instead of citric acid, as it is a better agent to clear the ferric iron in the paper.

As a side note; sodium acetate is also a developer for palladium prints, at a slightly higher concentration, as is sodium citrate, theoretically affecting the palladium salts in a similar way as they would with silver, for color. EDTA is the clearing agent for palladium prints, therefore, shifting between Kallitype printing and palladium printing is not a difficult matter, being the negative characteristics for both mediums remains roughly equal.

Palladium toned Kallitype
"Looking down Main Street"
Tombstone, Arizona