Otmoor Argyrotype º»
Original exposure May 2019
Otmoor RSPB, Oxfordshire
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-SW 150 f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
2" f/45
Rear and front tilts forward, down angle on Arca Cube head
No filters
8x10 neg developed with Pyrocat HD 2:2:100 in BTZS tube
N-1, 8'05" (5min prewash in distilled water; 1min acetic acid stop bath; 10min fix in TF4; 1min sodium sulfite hypoclear; 30min wash). Slice taken off left-hand edge of neg (dark-slide incursion into shot!).
Argyrotype as follows, using Fotospeed sensitizer and following Christopher James AltPro bible guidance:
About 3ml argyrotype sensitiser + 1 drop of tween solution (taken from mix of 1 drop Tween 20 60% soon with 5 drops distilled water.
Jan 5th 2020, 21ºC, humidity 50%, paper dried for an hour or so before exposure but not otherwise prehumidified. Bergger Cot320 11x14” paper.
43 minutes under UV lamp, 5mins wash in 1.5l distilled water with squeeze of lemon juice, 5mins in 1.5l tap water, 3mins in 1.5l tap water with 1tbps+1heaped tbsp of hypo crystals (constant agitation for all these steps). Final wash: 30mins face down in tap water, change of water, 30mins face up, hang to dry.
Print digitized with Nikon D800E and 85PC-E tilt-shift
Otmoor Argyrotype º»
Original exposure May 2019
Otmoor RSPB, Oxfordshire
Chamonix 810V
Nikkor-SW 150 f/8
Ilford FP4+ 8x10
2" f/45
Rear and front tilts forward, down angle on Arca Cube head
No filters
8x10 neg developed with Pyrocat HD 2:2:100 in BTZS tube
N-1, 8'05" (5min prewash in distilled water; 1min acetic acid stop bath; 10min fix in TF4; 1min sodium sulfite hypoclear; 30min wash). Slice taken off left-hand edge of neg (dark-slide incursion into shot!).
Argyrotype as follows, using Fotospeed sensitizer and following Christopher James AltPro bible guidance:
About 3ml argyrotype sensitiser + 1 drop of tween solution (taken from mix of 1 drop Tween 20 60% soon with 5 drops distilled water.
Jan 5th 2020, 21ºC, humidity 50%, paper dried for an hour or so before exposure but not otherwise prehumidified. Bergger Cot320 11x14” paper.
43 minutes under UV lamp, 5mins wash in 1.5l distilled water with squeeze of lemon juice, 5mins in 1.5l tap water, 3mins in 1.5l tap water with 1tbps+1heaped tbsp of hypo crystals (constant agitation for all these steps). Final wash: 30mins face down in tap water, change of water, 30mins face up, hang to dry.
Print digitized with Nikon D800E and 85PC-E tilt-shift