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Salty prints: I was at a workshop on salted photo printing (calotype) today at the Ottawa School of Art. The method of printing photos was "developed" (ha!) in 1839 by Henry Fox Talbot.
Basically you create photo sensitive paper from regular water-colour grade paper by coating it in gelatin, salt and silver. Then you place your negative on this sensitized paper, stick it under some UV rays and voila! You toss your image in some fixer and then a water bath and it's photo time. I took in one of my old London photos to print. It looks better in person. I dig it. I am feeling inspired to finally find some gaffer's tape and get my Holga into working order after seeing Aaron's prints at the workshop. Comments
Neat! Can you try lots of weird papers to print on? Aaron takes great photos, too! ao / 09.20.04Yeah, as long as the paper is durable enough to withstand a few coats of the solutions. He said you could try it on tightly woven fabrics too.. You want to share a bottle of silver solution? Lana / 09.20.04Post a comment
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