Re: Gum on masa, again
Chistina, I wish you a quick and complete recovery. Wow, six 12x16"s a time; an enviable performance! How yo do it? Intermittent agitation? Can you please elaborate a little bit? Thanks much! Perhaps I'm being too perfectionist, but that's only for the purpose of getting the best from the current material set. I'm not looking for / after Cibachrome quality at all. Just something different and discernible which gives me many options for intervention and interpretation (both in terms of materials and looks) with a handmade quality... The Arista film is quite interesting BTW... Thanks for pointing to it. Regards, Loris. 12 Ekim 2008, Pazar, 11:42 pm tarihinde, Christina Z. Anderson yazmış: > Dear all, > Nice to see so much gum back n' forth over the last couple weeks. Knee > surgery sure as hell took a couple weeks out of my life. Beware of > slippery > darkroom floors... > > Loris, even tho you are asking Keith, I'll add my two cents: I always > develop my prints face up as well as face down because I usually do 6 > 12x16's (inches) at once and my bathtub only holds two side by side, so I > have two face down, two face up, and two in large trays of water waiting > for > the bathtub, also face up (because water is too shallow in the tray to put > face down and risk marring). I have never had staining issues this way, > but > then again, I do size. It's another one of those "depends on your > practice" > myths. But I figure a couple thousand gum prints should provide enough > scientific evidence in my practice with sizing and glut to dispel this > myth. > Tho I am not using masa. > > BTW your gums are looking stupendous and I think you worry too much about > perfection. I happened to like the original brick image you thought was > too > colorful, had imperfections, blah blah blah...as well as the scrapey > grainy > face one. Tho I think your last face is brighter and more appealing that > you just posted. > > Fight the gum fight, Loris :) > > One other thing: many people are talking about cheap substrates--no > wonder > in this global economic meltdown. What about this: > > http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_prod.php?cat_id=&pid=1000002708 > > It's less than $1 a sheet of 8.5x11...
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