Re: lith printing and golfball grain
Chris:
....maybe it is just plain over-exposed & overdeveloped film that is
"giving you the
large grain...."
terry
On Dec 13, 2008, at 5:11 PM, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
Judy,
I have a lot of those books from that time that I have found at
abebooks.com but won't know until you can locate the title.
I've taught lith now for 8 years, once a year, and I have not seen
as much grain as I have this year on the Arista.edu paper. It's
funny because I was recommending the students to use Bergger
because that has always been excellent in the past, but the Arista
was for sale at the university bookstore so they were the ones to
turn me on to it in their practice.
I have no idea if Fotospeed changed their formulation or what. Or
if papers have morphed.
Chris
__________________
Christina Z. Anderson
http://christinaZanderson.com/
__________________
----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: "Alt List" <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: lith printing and golfball grain
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
Chris, there was a little book out in the '80s (or maybe the
70s ?) about ways to increase grain. Have you got it? At the
time, the absolute apogee of Ansel Adams, it was considered
iconoclastic, tho I don't recall much we don't take for granted
these days. But if you don't have it I'll look for it ...(and if
luck prevails I could find it, at least as a matter of academic/
historic interest).
Re: lith printing.
Using Fotospeed Lith developer at 60ml A and 60ml B in 1 liter of
water dilution, the Arista.edu paper gives GOLFBALL grain that is
really incredible. At least, I love it. I have a student doing
these vacant night time scenes of industrial walls sort of with a
single light shining, snow on the ground, and the grain is really
quite effective to set a mood. I have not seen this kind of grain
on a paper otherwise. I find Ilford Multigrade IV to be blah and
not very good, Bergger paper is fine grained and caramel toned
and pretty darn good. Kentmere Fineprint is good....pinky.
That's all...
Chris
__________________
Christina Z. Anderson
http://christinaZanderson.com/
__________________
|