Alternative Printing - Albumen Printing
The albumen (egg white) printing process was invented in 1847 by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard,. It became a popular way to produced multiple copies of a print by contacting printing a negative.
When creating an albumen print, a thin high quality cotton paper is first coated with a layer of salted albumen solution.
Once dried, it is then coated with a later of silver nitrate solution. Once the sensitizer is dried, a negative is placed on top of the sensitized paper and exposed to sunlight or UV light. During exposure, the silver nitrate will react with the sodium chloride, changing the silver metal salt into a partially realized metallic silver. It is then washed, toned and fixed.
The albumen print, when well toned, fixed and washed will be of archival properties. Many albumen prints from the late 1800s can still be found in good condition.
In this video, I shared the process of floating the paper, coating the paper and exposing the paper.
The negative used is a 4x5 negative taken at Haw Par Villa in Singapore.
About me:
I have been doing fim photography, darkroom printing since 2003. Since then, I have also been doing alternative processes such as albumen printing, kallitype printing, wet plate and dry plate photography. My favorite cameras are the Nikon FM2 and Nikon F2 and my favorite films are Fomapan 100, Kodak Ektar, Fujifilm Velvia, Rollei Superpan. with The various genres of photography I enjoy doing are landscape photography, portrait photography,
Being new to Youtube, I appreciate the works of other film photographers on youtube, such as Willem Verbeeck, Matt Day, Bigheadtaco and many more