{"id":5562,"date":"2022-05-15T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2022-05-15T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T22:41:19","slug":"new-salted-paper-prints-old-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=5562","title":{"rendered":"New Salted-paper Prints \/ Old Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few days ago, I decided that I wanted to get back to salted-paper printing. My specific aim was to make myself a print of the photo titled &#8220;Harvest Still Life&#8221;. I printed this image back at the end of March during a <a href=\"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=5510\">lecture\/demo <\/a>I did for the Tuttle library. However, I did not end up with a final print for myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I was at it, I looked through my archives for a few other photos that might look good as salted-paper prints and prepared some additional negatives for test printing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, I spent most of yesterday afternoon, when the outside temperature was a very unseasonable 85 degrees F, in the pleasant cool of my basement dim room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harvest Still Life is about 6 by 7 1\/2 inches on an 8 by10 inch sheet*. The other two prints are about 4 by 5 inches on 6 1\/2 by 7 inch sheets**. The paper is Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag paper for all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first and last prints were gold\/bicarbonate toned***. This treatment cools down the warm brown of an un-toned print resulting in an almost neutral tone. I left the middle print is un-toned, as I thought the natural warmth of a salted paper print suited the image well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I printed three other negatives as well, but none of these are &#8216;ready for prime time&#8217;. They will all need a bit of tweaking before I print them again&#8230; stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[scrollGallery id=853 &#8211; autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* This has evolved to be my standard-size for alternative process prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>** This is my usual work print size; used when I am working out the details (mostly dodging and burning) of the negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*** This was an experiment. Previously, I have used gold\/borax toner exclusively if I toned prints. However, I have trouble keeping the necessary amount of borax in solution in my cool (OK&#8230; downright cold at times) basement dim room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I decided that I wanted to get back to salted-paper printing. My specific aim was to make myself a print of the photo titled &#8220;Harvest Still Life&#8221;. I printed this image back at the end of March during a lecture\/demo I did for the Tuttle library. However, I did not end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-processes","category-salted-paper-prints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5568,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions\/5568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}