Second Kallitype ~ Different Printing/Toning

The palladium toned Kallitype print posted yesterday was what I had originally intended on doing. That isn't what I actually did when printing. When you print enough Kallitypes, reading the image before development gets easier to predict correct print times, depending on the image, and the desired outcome. This doesn't mean one can't coat a print paper, then cut it into 2" strips to use as test strips is as always, a good thing, saving precious metals. Having said that, I decided to push the envelope a bit today, printing in more of the visible part of the image before development. The resultant image wasn't exactly what I had wanted, yet not unusable.

The two extra minutes darkened the image perhaps a third stop over what I wanted, which is just about the bleach back effect of thiosulfate on the print image if immersed after clearing, before toning. That bleach back brought the image back to where I had intended, at which point I then toned the print in gold toner, to intensify the shadows and add to the tonal separation. It worked quite well, leaving one difference between the two prints. This print was much warmer than its twin. Printing the image down will do this, being more affected by the citrate developer, which warms the image to begin with. If I had used the sodium acetate developer that shift would have been neutral to cool toned and the blacks would have blocked up the middle tones much more than the citrate solution.

This print is identical to the first palladium toned image, with the exception to the print time;
Print time; 12 minutes
Paper; Revere Platinum
Developed in sodium citrate
Toned in gold toner

Gold toned Kallitype
"Three Cowboys in Town" ~ 8x10 ~ 2/5
Tombstone, Arizona