RE: Here's the print scan!

[Neal Wilson <wilsonneal@hotmail.com>]

nice one, Paul

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> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:07:22 -0700
> From: viapiano@pacbell.net
> Subject: Here's the print scan!
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/viapiano/3368502595/sizes/o/
>
> This is the print I made yesterday. The usual disclaimers that the print
> color is slightly off in the browser, as well as there being more detail in
> the sky highlights than shows on the scan, etc, etc, blah, blah...
>
> Hope y'all like it...
>
> Paul
>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Viapiano" <viapiano@pacbell.net>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:09 AM
> Subject: Re: Samples of Pd with Na2
>
>
>> Kerik...
>>
>> It did seem a bit wet when I brushed it on...and you're absolutely right.
>>
>> I usually use .5ml for a 4x5 print (pure pd, amm citrate), but lately that
>> has seemed a bit less and got a better print last time with .75ml. I
>> extrapolated from that figure, which gave me 4.5 ml, but I knew that that
>> was way too much. So I knocked it down to 4ml, knowing that I'd rather err
>> on the side of more solution...3ml is definitely what I should have used.
>>
>> I use a 2 1/2" DaVinci Cosmotop brush, a $40-50 synthetic flat watercolor
>> brush, which I love (used a Dick Blick 40% off coupon!)...
>>
>> Paper is Fabriano EW, acidified in oxalic acid 1%, 3
>> minutes...pre-exposure humidity only
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <kerik@kerik.com>
>> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:42 AM
>> Subject: Re: Samples of Pd with Na2
>>
>>
>> Paul,
>>
>> That color shift is expected. I would also attribute the smoother tonality
>> to the potassium oxalate developer.
>>
>> What paper are you using and what are you coating with? With a paper like
>> Platine or COT320 and a Richeson brush, that's more sensitizer than you
>> should need. You should be able to coat a 9x14 area with about 1.5 ml each
>> of Pd and FeOx.
>>
>> Kerik
>> www.kerik.com
>>
>>
>> Original Message:
>> -----------------
>> From: Paul Viapiano viapiano@pacbell.net
>> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:08:50 -0700
>> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
>> Subject: Re: Samples of Pd with Na2
>>
>> Yeah, Neal...nice!
>>
>> Kerik, I ran a few test strips yesterday before doing the 11x15 (9x13.5
>> image) and the pure Pd w/o NA2 was slightly warmer than the one with it.
>>
>> Also, I could've run the print w/o NA2, but the one with it gave it just
>> that slight bit of punchiness it needed, seeing that the image goes from
>> dark areas of foreground to a hazy aerial perspective in the mountain. The
>> PO (or maybe it was the NA2) gave me a smoother print than I had been able
>> to make with pure Pd and amm citrate developer.
>>
>> The biggest worry I had was coating a larger-than-my-usual print. I used 4
>> ml of solution plus 2 drops 10% and 1 drop 2.5% NA2. I extrapolated this
>> from my test strip which used .5ml of solution and 1 drop 2.5% NA2.
>>
>> Scan to come...
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <kerik@kerik.com>
>> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:46 AM
>> Subject: RE: Samples of Pd with Na2
>>
>> Neal these are looking good. The colors seem to be all over the board,
>> though. I presume this is the result of scanning and adjustments rather
>> than the actual color varitions in the prints. I'm surprised you're seeing
>> a change in exposure time and smoothness with a relatively small amount of
>> Na2. That has not been my experience. A slight shift from warm is
>> expected.
>>
>> Kerik
>> www.kerik.com
>>
>>
>> Original Message:
>> -----------------
>> From: Neal Wilson wilsonneal@hotmail.com
>> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:03:07 -0400
>> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
>> Subject: Samples of Pd with Na2
>>
>> I haven't posted samples of my work previously, but thought, given the
>> recent talk of Na2 with Palladium, developed in PO, I'd post a few links,
>> as this is my process. I used to work with the Weston, but now use Arches
>> Platine. Some of these were also printed on COT 320. I struggled for a
>> long time with DR, and only recently feel I've gotten a good effective
>> speed for my film (now FP4 after a year with HP5 and two years with TriX),
>> and my developer (HC110, Jobo tank, Beseler motor base), and I can run
>> with
>> a very, very minimal application of Na2. Na2 is great, but with much more
>> than a drop of 10% in a mix of 16 drops each of Pd and FO (for an 8x10),
>> it
>> shifts the color, it makes for less smoothness, and it impacts exposure
>> time. I feel like zero Na2 is also not a good formula for me. Seems like
>> the coating is more even, color is better.
>>
>> So, these are some examples of 8x10 portraits. I also shoot still life
>> and
>> hope to scan and post some of these soon.
>>
>> http://nealwilsonstudio.com/sophie.html
>>
>> http://nealwilsonstudio.com/PlatinumBoy.html
>>
>> http://nealwilsonstudio.com/Dreaming.html
>>
>> http://nealwilsonstudio.com/shaman.html
>>
>> http://nealwilsonstudio.com/Nauset_Guards.html
>>
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>>
>> Thanks for any feedback.
>>
>> Neal
>>
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