RE: A few gum things
-----Original Message----- From: Judy Seigel [mailto:jseigel@panix.com] Sent: 09 April 2008 06:45 To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: RE: A few gum things Actually, I like that book -- I like the tone: casual and chatty, like easy does it, try this... Considering also that it was done before the Internet made everybody experts, and (if memory serves) no stupid mistakes,.. pretty good ! J. Hi Judy The edition I have is dated 2000, although I didn't obtain my copy until a couple of years after that, but I do take your point that it was a resource before 'the internet made everybody experts'. I too like the laid back approach but I did find this silly in the Cyanotype section 'Brush the liquid (sensitizer) on your bicycle tyre and ride your bike over it (paper).' I don't think the book does much to promote to the Kallitype, saying that its difficult to do and ferric oxalate is hard to come by so stick with the VDB. There's no mention of the colour and contrast control that is an advantage of the Kallitype over the VDB for example. In the gum section is written 'some pigments, green in particular, will stain the paper. .....mix blue and yellow to make green.' I used to believe that before I tried green pigment on properly sized paper. I'm not going to throw my copy away, there's room for it in my library, but when I need to look something up alt I'll go to Christina Anderson's or Christopher James' books first. John. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.10/1366 - Release Date: 08/04/2008 17:03
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