One of my VanDyke prints.
One of my VanDyke prints.
Thank you. Mighty kind.
Here are a few more. I need to get more of my street work online; that's my preferred style.
And one in platinum:
Technical info:
The VanDyke sensitizer I mix is ferric ammonium citate--9% solution, tartaric acid--1.5%, and a 4% solution of silver nitrate. Let the sensitizer rest for a few days before you coat your paper. It will last a year or longer in a brown bottle. There will be participate in the bottom, so draw the sensitizer from the top of the bottle and discard the remainder when the levels get low.
It's a washout process, I add a touch of citric acid to the development bath and my hypo bath is sodium sulfite and a breath of sodium bisulfite.
Ilford's standard fixer will impart a very chocolatey dark tone to the image. Depending on the image I will also tone it with gold chloride. Platinum toners can make a VanDyke nearly indistinguishable from a platinum/palladium print (I don't know how much iron and silver are left in the final print however).
Not having a banquet camera I usually capture my images in 2 1/4 format or digital capture and then print a large negative on Pictorico. Sometimes I make an internegative but rarely go through the trouble or expense.
No worries. Happy to pass the info along.Thanks!
I like that ferris wheel shot. Effectively simple composition and strong colours.
Not my best shot, but I don't know the policy on nudes here.
Yes, that is the Vogue Italia logo.
Do I understand correctly - you created this image and it was published in Vogue? Wonderful pose by the way.