Charleston photographs printed on silver gelatin paper for a client

Exploring the beauty of black and white photographs printed on silver gelatin baryta paper

I make all kinds of prints, from the usual archival inkjet on paper to handmade cyanotypes, but my favorite — and in my opinion, the pinnacle of photographic printing — is the silver gelatin print on baryta surface fiber paper. In this quick video, watch as I unpack, examine, and sign a set of 16 x 24-inch enlargements that I recently had made for a client in Charleston. We will look at the paper surface in detail, and discuss why their contrast and tonal range make silver gelatin prints the best of the best.

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In the photograph above, you can see how much volume and dimension the silver gelatin paper is capable of creating — these decorative brackets seem almost three-dimensional. And the dynamic range of the paper is incredible . . . the blacks are black and the whites are white, and the grays between are rich and subtle.

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