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Palladium & Platinum, the ancient photographic printing process.

This is the method of William Willies 1873 the discoverer of the process of using the Platinum metal salts mixed with some oxidizers, coating it on water color paper.. as making your own light sensitive emulsion and a present of a UV light to come up with the most great long tonal scale that gelatin silver wouldn’t ever make. I love it because its so deep and meaningful.. its the joy of photography.

I took this picture in Abu Dhabi and print the negative (8x10) on Palladium coating, controlled by the ratio method, printed on UV light (box which I designed) set for one hour, developed in Potassium Oxalate at 110 F cleared in Citric Acid.

 

 

 

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Uploaded on October 27, 2005
Taken on October 27, 2005