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My very first calotype.

"Shot" with an Austrian 19th century camera, aperture full open, exposure 25 minutes, on an April evening with scattered clouds. View of a mediaeval house behind a garden, original negative (above) and digitally processed positive (below).
The film I used is makeshift Calotype paper, developed with gallic acid, fixed with hypo.
Not too loosely based on W.H.F. Talbot's instructions on the calotype process, but sensitizing was achieved through brushing with silver nitrate and acetic acid solution only, using gallic acid only (without silver nitrate) in the developing stage.

Hopefully on some sunny day I will get more contrast, to be able to print a positive from the paper negative.

Description
My very first calotype.

"Shot" with an Austrian 19th century camera, aperture full open, exposure 25 minutes, on an April evening with scattered clouds. View of a mediaeval house behind a garden, original negative (above) and digitally processed positive (below).
The film I used is makeshift Calotype paper, developed with gallic acid, fixed with hypo.
Not too loosely based on W.H.F. Talbot's instructions on the calotype process, but sensitizing was achieved through brushing with silver nitrate and acetic acid solution only, using gallic acid only (without silver nitrate) in the developing stage.

Hopefully on some sunny day I will get more contrast, to be able to print a positive from the paper negative.