Re: Tri-Curious Seeks Other Tri-Quad Curious Gummists
One issue I may have missed in this "colour balancing" discussion is a problem I have with my (mostly) gum-over-cyanotype prints. I often print landscapes, with simple CMY or CMYK negatives colour-separated in Photoshop. Normally the colour balance is pleasing, except for the sky. Grey skies are fine, but when the image includes a blue sky, the cyano layer by itself looks just right - and the magenta layer then prints quite a lot of magenta over it. Presumably this is because the prussian blue of cyanotype is not at all close to the true cyan which is assumed by the separations. Of course the problem is easily solved by gently brushing away the excess magenta during development - but does anyone else have the same problem? Or a better solution? Best wishes Henry On 29/1/07 02:24, "Michael Koch-Schulte" <mkochsch@shaw.ca> wrote: > I had posted something (God, was it the match the lit the field?) about a > week or so ago about working in colour gum (Bi, Duo, Tri, Quad, Tetra, Hexa > or Septa ...for that matter, all fine by me). OK, maybe my phasing was a > little scientific (or vague or dopey) to suggest one could physically > quantify a multi-colour palette of gum. But I'm pretty new to the sport. I'm > no expert -- but that's why I'm here. There's very little in the archives > that discusses the topic. I thought the question was on topic for the list. > No one seemed interested in discussing the idea of current or past methods > of "balancing" a gum print. People were too busy discussing more pressing > issues (read: "The End of Forte" "Dan and Jill's Moving Sale" and "Digital > Noise Reduction" NOT that there's anything wrong with THAT...:^) there were > marked OT...ah mostly). But I was looking for a little mentoring, a little > TLC even a swifted kick in the pants in the right direction would have been > appreciated. I got the cold-shoulder. What a difference a day makes though. > I'm over it. I know, we can't all be on the same page at the same time. > (Save for one person who contacted me off-list -- and she knows who she is.) > What's my point? I'll the ask the question again: does anyone have a method > or workflow for "balancing" colour gum work? Or do they bother? Success > stories or failures (usually the more interesting of the two). I'd like to > hear them. > > ~m >
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