Hi all,
Pretty much my whole Pt/Pd printing experience has been on Arches
Platine, both with silver and digitally produced internegatives, with
the exception of some experiments with Japanese tissue papers (fun
when wet!!). Shortly before moving house earlier this year I
purchased some Cranes (Weston) Diploma Parchment after reading that
it was a recommended substitute for Cranes Platinotype. I purchased
100 sheets in 11"x14" and packed it away while moving house.
Anyway, after working through winter here producing quite a number of
5"x7" pyro developed negatives and I am keen to start printing with a
view to an exhibition. I opened the paper packet for the first time
last night and was surprised by how warm it was. It is also lighter
than I had thought (it was described in imperial on the Bostick +
Sullivan website and i didn't bother to convert it to metric - I just
assumed it would be quite heavy). Not only am I not sure that this is
the best paper for this series of images - due to the warm tone, but
i've realised that I didn't by enough to do the whole series in even
an edition of four for an exhibition. I still have plenty of Arches
Platine, and I will test print on both stocks this weekend but I
wanted to ask, in light of all this, what peoples paper experiences
and thoughts are?
Jon