RE: VDB nasty staining problem
Hi David, I mostly use Crane's Cover 90 lb. Wove Finish and I have used Bergger Prestige (COT 320). I rinse and wash with tap water although I do have a filter system with the 2 chambers (10 and 20 micron filters) Typical darkroom set up. The water by the way here in Miami is terrible, lots of iron I suspect, I have to change filters every couple of months. I use a small amount of acetic acid (28%) in 3 consecutive water baths. 2ml in 2 liters. The only distilled water I use is for sensitizer solutions. For my palladium toner I use 2.5 ml of palladium in 500ml of (distilled) water and 2.5g of citric acid. I use this as a "one shot" solution. I have been very successful with this process. Since I started using the toner "one shot" I have had no problems. I like the rich "chocolate" color I get from the palladium. I tried gold but it gave me a more purple type color. Hope this helps, I don't consider myself an expert by any means, I do know this is working for me. "If it aint broke....." Scott B. Weber Associate Professor of Photography Department of Fine Arts Barry University 11300 NE 2nd Avenue Miami Shores, Florida 33161 (305) 899 4922 -----Original Message----- From: david drake [mailto:daviddrakephoto@sympatico.ca] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 9:53 AM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: Re: VDB nasty staining problem hi scott just curious as to what paper you typically use with your VDB process. I've been using Stonehenge white with palladium but I wasn't totally happy with the colour of the prints; they have a hint of olive green in the brown. I'm going to try platinum toner and see how that looks. do you use tap water (with citric acid added) for your initial clearing baths? I've never had staining problems either until now that I'm also working with the gold toner. cheers david On 3-May-07, at 10:30 PM, Weber, Scott wrote: OK since I am a devoted VDB printer I will add my process. I rinse in 3 successive baths of water with a small amount of acidic acid. Followed by a wash of 3-4 minutes in fresh water. Then toned in palladium directly into 5% hypo never had a stain problem. I know we all have our own methods that work for our own particular work, and this is the beauty of these processes but I am always interested to share these eclectic methods. Cheers, Scott Weber -----Original Message----- From: Don Bryant [mailto:dsbryant@bellsouth.net] Sent: Thu 5/3/2007 3:42 PM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: RE: VDB nasty staining problem Sam, I'm always open to new methods. I'll give it a go sometime. Don -----Original Message----- From: sam wang [mailto:stwang@bellsouth.net] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:59 AM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: Re: VDB nasty staining problem Don, I should have said film strength Rapid Fixer, as least that's what she claimed. Yeah, I would have expected a blank print, but the DMax was quite deep. Maybe it's the Weston paper she used?! Sam On May 3, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Don Bryant wrote: Sam, An interesting side note: one of my students made quite good VD prints using undiluted Rapid Fixer, which I always thought would bleach the print. Just goes to show there are many ways to skin the cat, so to speak. Yikes! Rapid fixer. Can you share any details Sam? Thanks, Don The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, and/or privileged material. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any errant transmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system and notify the sender. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Barry University - Miami Shores, FL (http://www.barry.edu) <winmail.dat> david drake photography www.daviddrakephotography.com The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, and/or privileged material. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any errant transmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system and notify the sender. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Barry University - Miami Shores, FL (http://www.barry.edu)
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