Short 35 second video summary of a kallitype test print development from last night, showing the many different color changes a print undergoes before one can actually fully check the final result. With a trained eye, you can already make a determination […]
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An evening well spent in the photo basement lab: Preparing new ferric oxalate and silver nitrate sensitizer part solutions from scratch, pH testing and logging state of various other fresh processing chems, filtering solutions, doing a bunch of test strips... and a lot of waiting in between […]
Photo of a table with various bottles, beakers, heating plate mixer, papers and other small items. All illuminated only by a small red LED light.
Last good deed of the day: Cleaning/re-organizing the darkroom, mixing/replenishing chemicals and coating papers with emulsion for tomorrow's printing session...
#AltProcess #Darkroom #Kallitype #AnalogPhotography
A ~10x7 inch kallitype print of a mountain landscape (portrait aspect ratio) in a slightly larger white photo processing tray on a wooden floor.
New UV lamp, new developer handling & my largest Kallitype print so far (~10x7 inch) — a shot of the iconic Oeschinensee cirque, surrounded by 3500+ meter mountains...
The new light setup is ~10x slower than my other light box, but allows me to do much […]
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12 days until closing. Artists combine processes to move beyond monochrome.
➥ Galina Manikova. #Cyanotype & #vandyke
➥ Koa A. Tom, #Lumen & cyanotype
➥ Nancy Anne Holowka, #Kallitype, palladium toned & coloured
➥ Teresa Guxens, Wet Cyano & anthotype
👉 www.alternativephotography.com/calendar-eve...
Phone photo of a handmade 6x4" high contrast kallitype print of a rock tower in the Dolomites with epic cumulus clouds in the background.
My 10mm thick ultraclear glass plate (for contact prints) arrived and the weight and increase in sharpness is like day & night.. wow! 🤩
Since this new glass also seems to transmit more UV light (as I had hoped), I'll have to do more test strips for adjusted […]
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@thereisnocat After some back and forth, I've settled on 6-7 mins in 18% sodium acetate (+ ~1% tartaric acid) for the past 6 weeks or so. I usually also add one or two drops of 5% ammonium dichromate to the emulsion to raise contrast. All prints are toned in a very weak 1:100 Se toner, just […]
Phone picture of a 8x10" sheet of paper with a smaller kallitype print of a multi-layered high alpine mountain landscape with a small mountain lake in the foreground and snow capped mountains in the back.
Phone picture of a 8x10" sheet of paper with a smaller kallitype print of a narrow path leading to a high alpine mountain pass in front of a sharp ridge leading up to a large mountain peak. Intense bright light from the other side of the pass is creating a high contrast.
Shot ...and chaser (and it's only Tuesday): Two new 8x6" prints done over the weekend, from one of my fave repeat hikes in the Allgäuer Alps...
Alpsee and view into the Lechtal Alps (November 2021)
Himmeleck mountain pass with Großer Wilder (October 2023)
I […]
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Phone picture of a 8x10" sheet of paper with a slightly smaller kallitype print of a glacier surrounded by majestic snow capped mountains. Surrounding the print is a dark border of hand painted emulsion.
Morteratsch and the majestic Bernina range in full glory 🤩
Yes! That's what I'm talking about... Reprint was successful and much improved! Tweaked negative, new developer mix & weaker toner for more neutral grays. Also built an interim solution/contraption […]
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Phone picture of a 8x10" sheet of paper with a smaller kallitype print of a glacier surrounded by majestic snow capped mountains. Surrounding the print is a thick dark border of hand painted emulsion.
Share not only your successes but also your failures, they say... Latest 8x6" kallitype of my beloved friend Morteratsch. Printed before breakfast this AM...
It might not be immediately obvious in the thumbnail, but this is a good illustration of what […]
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Anne Risum, Subway. Toned and hand-coloured cyanotype for our COLOUR Calendar event.
Artists rethink monochrome processes and share (until 31 March).
See entries:
👉 www.alternativephotography.com/calendar-eve...
#cyanotype #kallitype #altprocess #alterantiveprocesses
iPhone photo of 3 printed pieces of paper on a table., the largest showing a kallitype print of a moody scene of a mountain creak flowing through a wintry forest canyon. Below the main image are two smaller test strips showing gradients and checkerboard patterns (partially cut off)
Made new test prints on some off-cuts, using a slightly stronger developer solution than usual to see impact on max. depth. The main image (Eagle Creek, Oregon) is using 18% sodium acetate (curve corrected negative), the test strips are of 20% and 15% […]
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iPhone photo of a 8x6" kallitype print of a photo of the Langkofel mountain massif with its talus fields and some scattered pine forest in the foreground. The sky is filled with layers of small clouds illuminated by the evening sun. The picture is surrounded by a thick dark brown border of the exposed hand-painted photo emulsion.
Slowly getting into a rhythm to start the day with doing a print each morning, each time still tweaking either negatives, concentrations and/or durations of different processing stages to adjust tones/hues... A new adventure with some back and forth each […]
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Phone picture of a 8x10" piece of paper with a slightly smaller kallitype print of a high alpine mountain landscape. The picture shows the view of deep valley with a long smooth glacial ridge leading up to snow covered peaks. A band of forest is running down the slopes in the foreground, still mostly in the shade, but a small area near the edge which is catching the morning sun.
Latest 8x6" toned kallitype print, fresh from the tray (well, from the drying line)... 🤩
(Kallitype is quite challenging in terms of balancing achieving deep blacks vs detail, so this scene took quite some tweaking to retain the details in the band of dark […]
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Photo of a 6x4" kallitype print of the photo in the OP of this thread.
Decided to make a kallitype print of this and think it suits this timeless nature even better...
#AltProcess #Kallitype #LandscapePhotography #Photography
A man in surgical scrubs reclines as if dead on a chair, being attended to by woman draped only in light sheer fabric wearing a mask. Platinum-palladium toned kallitype.
"Those Who Served"
I thought today I'd repost a kallitype from 2021, inspired by graveyard angels, from a series on the COVID pandemic. Infections aren't the only thing health care workers are on the front lines risking life to keep people safe.
#ArtNude #Photography #Kallitype #FuckIce
Two inspiring entries from our COLOUR Calendar event by:
➥ Daniel Rothenberg
➥ Shannon Beatty
Artists rethink traditionally monochrome processes and share how colour enters their work.
Join until 31 March 2026:
👉 www.alternativephotography.com/calendar-eve...
#cyanotype #kallitype #altprocess
Two 6x4" kallitype prints using slightly different negatives of the same image. The bottom one is slightly too dark and has very little detail in the shadows, the top one has slightly blown out highlights and a more grainy look.
"What is an ocean but a multitude of drops." — David Mitchell
Final tweaks (version 11 by now) of the tone curve for digital negatives for my current combination of emulsion & developer: It's pretty impressive how even minute changes to black & white points […]
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Photo of two kallitype prints (of the same negative). The top one has neutral gray tones, the bottom more warm/brown tones and some irregular staining (rusty tones), likely caused by minerals in the tap water...
Finished print(s) of the above darkroom session yesterday... Also nicely demonstrates the importance of the sensitivity to environmental factors and avoiding contamination of all solutions in the kallitype process. For the bottom one I tried using just tap […]
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Two 4x6 kallitype salt prints of a computational artwork (physics sim). The right one is the untoned test sheet with additional grayscale gradients to check response of different exposure times. The left one is the final toned print with more neutral black-brown tones.
My #AltProcess #Kallitype development/printmaking journey is already showing strong parallels to my software dev experience, i.e. a preference for avoiding monolithic frameworks and building more granular, reliable, understandable & controllable tooling […]
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Photo of almost fully developed kallitype print of an abstract form created by a generative system based on a cloth physics sim.
Update: Very happy how uniform this print turned out... Still waiting for more chems to arrive which should help with getting deeper tones/contrast.
(Ps. See other replies in this thread for more context explanations of the physics sim used to create this form...)
Photo of a inkjet printed 6x4" negative of a cloth-like physics sim
Prepping a digital negative of one of my old generative art projects (from 2008) for #Kallitype printing tomorrow. The form is actually _not_ 3D, but merely the time trace of a 2D physics sim of a single line (over hundreds of frames) and using spatial […]
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Model Ivory Flame poses in a semi-sheer dress, surrounded by sheer fabric in a 10,000L tank of water. She is in a close to fetal position, with her hands clasped near her face. Title from her looking like she is sinking underwater (which in fact, she is), with the fabric forming a large flower.
Ophelia
Model: Ivory Flame
Platinum-palladium toned kallitype
Taken at Tankspace in the UK, via remote session
#ModelPhotography #Photography #AltProcess #Kallitype #IvoryFlame #LawrencesView
Model Ivory Flame poses nude with body in profile and head turned so eyes engage the viewer. Her arm covers her breast, and holds some of her long hair. This is a gold-toned kallitype, so monochrome with a slight red/purple tone to the photo.
Portrait of Ivory Flame
Gold toned kallitype
#ArtNude #Nude #Photography #ModelPhotography #AltProcess #Kallitype #Gold #IvoryFlame #LawrencesView
Model Kayla poses wrapped in fabric on Dante's Peak in Death Valley - the valley floor can be seen below. Kayla's fabric wraps around her body and flies out in the breeze.
Desert Breeze
Model: @kaylamodel-art.bsky.social
Platinum-palladium toned kallitype
Very (very) loosely inspired by Anne Brigman
#Nude #ArtNude #Photography #ModelPhotography #AltProcess #Kallitype #KaylaModel #LawrencesView
Gold-toned kallitype of model Vivian Cove, posing on a bunch of chairs extending through the frame both horizontally and vertically.
@viviancove.bsky.social with chairs
Gold-toned kallitype
Taken at Villa Anita, NV during a Venus de Tierra event.
#ArtNude #Nude #Photography #ModelPhotography #AltProcess #Kallitype #Gold #VivianCove #LawrencesView
Wolfgang Moersch. Bärlauch-Teppich, Schlosspark Brühl (Wild garlic carpet, Brühl Palace Park), 2025. Holga 120N, Trix in efd, Kallitype onto HPR, developer Rochelle salt and Sodium tungstate mixture. #wolfgangmoersch #photography #kallitype #landscapephotography #woodland #wildgarlic #allium
Castle Eilean Donan
Palladium Toned Kallitype
#photography #alternativeprocess #altprocessphotography #palladium #kallitype
Saturday, In the Park.
Gold Toned Kallitype print of a 4×5” pinhole image.
#pinhole #kallitype #photography #filmphotography #alternativeprinting
