Ned's photos with the keyword: Eastman No. 2

Salted paper print of a calotype . Printed 28 January 2018 7x11 inch image on 9x13 Strathmore 500 drawing paper, plate finish Started exposure facing East away from the sun with a paper diffuser, my daughter and I went to the beach and when we got home the sun was setting. I finished it with 5 minutes under BLB but it didn't print deeply enough to tone well. Toned in gold thiocyanate for over an hour, it did not shift the color much but it did increase contrast and brighten the water a bit. It has a kind of soft light look that reminds me of that morning. I thought I was going to need to re-print it, but I like it just the way it is.

Inverted digi-snap of calotype negative. Mouse over note to view calotype. This calotype had lots of problems, starting with curl that I didn't control when sensitizing, which caused the damaged areas in the sky -- it was my last piece of iodized paper, or I would have started over. Then I thought it was overexposed ( it wasn't ) and I developed it too slowly. After about 50 minutes developing, I realized what was happening and could have fixed it, but put an eyedropper of sulfamic acid into the tray by mistake instead of silver.. and that was the end of developing it! The negative is very red and it is underdeveloped. Anyway, I enjoyed making the photograph and met some nice German visitors while making it. We had a laugh when he held his compact digital camera next to my big view camera. The seagull landed on the rock about 30 seconds into the exposure and posed there the rest of the time :) Even though the photo didn't come out well, it was a lovely day at the coast and I enjoyed the attempt. LV 15 water, 14 sand, 13 rock. 5m30s f/22. As noted above, due to a mix-up with some notes, I thought it was overexposed, and developed it for 50 minutes adding scant eyedroppers of aceto-nitrate of silver several times along the way, wondering why it was coming up so slowly :) I think it still could have been developed correctly if I'd added more silver, but no great loss since it was already damaged and I'm not going to print it. I iodized a new batch of paper today, so will be ready to continue soon!

Gold toned salt print made from a calotype. Printed 7 February 2016 This "fairy ring" of redwood trees is probably on the same ground a prehistoric giant once stood upon. At Riverfront Regional Park near the Russian River in Sonoma County, California.

Met up with a nice fellow from APUG yesterday and tried out a new tripod for my camera at Spring Lake, near Santa Rosa, California. This is a paper negative exposed for salt printing... I made a salt print from it today but it had an odd defect I've never seen before, so I'll try again another day. Meanwhile here's an inverted scan.

Valley oak at Crane Creek regional park in Sonoma County, California. Paper negative. Sometimes I like the negative better than the positive...

Valley Oak at Crane Creek regional park in Sonoma County California. The mid-afternoon light was flat, and I think I will come back and photograph this tree from the other side. Something I never noticed before, but makes sense if you think about it: as I walked around the park, I noticed that for every tree, if I stood where you could see the trunk and branches then I was looking into the sun. Of course the leaves grow and spread out more on the side of the tree that faces the afternoon sun!

I've got a new toy. It's an Eastman No. 2 view camera for 7x11. I really like this format. I've been using a lot of 7x11 paper, and now I've got real film holders for that size! Using a well made holder is such a luxury compared to my homemade contraptions! Today I made this first photograph with it, a paper negative. The negative was a bit overexposed, but I had fun using the camera and I think it's going to be great for making paper negatives and calotypes for salt printing. The camera was made sometime between about 1914 and 1921. Lens is an 11" Wollensak velostigmat that I've been using for some time.