Platinum/Palladium Print ~ Portfolio nearly complete

This image, along with a second image to "Sailboat on Canal" will complete this portfolio of 5x7 platinum/palladium prints. Most of these images are scenics from Oregon. The next portfolio will be focused mostly on images of Arizona, beginning the the newest images shot at Cochise Strong Hold in southwestern Arizona. That portfolio will be made up of 8x10 platinum/palladium prints.

The images from this time frame of shooting with the Burke & James 5x7 view camera make up a period whereupon I preferred the densities shifted upwards towards the shoulder. This increased detail in the image, mostly in the lower tonal ranges where they might normally be lost in deeper shades of gray, or black. I also used a fully compensating developer; a rejiggered formula of the Windish Pyro formula, using sodium hydroxide as the accelerator. This is the saving grace to the images, keeping the upper tonal ranges zone 6-8 separated from the lower ranges. Looking back, I would alter that formula, sliding the image back down the contrast index curve about one stop, which would return the shadow areas and deepen the blacks. Interpretation of an image, through development is everything.

This image negative is pretty much the same as the earlier samples; this print is unlikely to make it into the final portfolio, as it is an uninspiring for me. Not worthy a Pt/Pd print.

The Negative: Kodak Super XX (250/125)
Negative Developer; Pyro/hydroxide 16 minutes (Windish Pyro) reformulated
Paper; Revere Platinum
Print Developer; Ammonium Citrate (Bostick & Sullivan) pre-mix
Coating solution; (5x7) Palladium 12 drops ~ Ferric Oxalate (Part 1) 11 drops,
                               platinum (sodium chloroplatinate) @ 2.5% (solution) 2 drops.

"Willamette River Afternoon #2" ~ 5x7 ~ 2/5
Eugene, Oregon