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Salted Paper Prints

Salted paper process is one of the oldest photography processes. A postitive printing procedure invented by Talbot. Each salted print is individually made resulting in each image being completely unique. The process that I used consists of coating diffrent watercolor paper with a salt solution, drying the paper, then adding silver nitrate and drying the paper again. To expose the image it was necessary to place a paper negative that I  produced by changing the digital image to greyscale, inverting, switching the image direction and making adjustment to the contrast and exposure in a photo-editing program. The negative was placed directly onto the prepared watercolor paper and secured into an unused picture frame with glass. I conducted test strips for all images. The exposure times were between 10-25 mins of direct UV Sunlight. 
 
Salted Paper Prints
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Salted Paper Prints

Salted Paper Prints: Placed paper negatives onto sensitized watercolor paper to produce one of the earliest photography processes.

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