Re: lumenprints not chromo?
Gregg, here it is:
http://christinaanderson.visualserver.com/Text_page.cfm?pID=2448
and I left you a message there :) Apparently I had removed the image already
and didn't remember.
What I find with lumenprints is when the students first do them, they assume
that the process moves faster than it does and then end up fixing it way
before it is exposed enough. That first try, there will be students whose
prints "disappear". Then they put the next print outside in the morning and
leave it (incredulously to them) all day, go to school, come home, eat
dinner, watch TV, take a bath, and that's when it is successful.
How this time amount translates to pinhole is the big question. No matter
what you do, the fix changes the colors. But if exposed long enough, the
image doesn't disappear. But to equate an all day exposure outside full sun
to get the same color that stays for a pinhole exposure, that is the
question. How does one compute an equivalent exposure to a 6 hr no focal
length to a 90 day huge focal length??? And then add to that using warmtone
paper which gives the wonderful pinks and terracottas, and that is even
slower....although Ilford warmtone is pretty fast.
One of my students did a 2 week indoors exposure which was faint yellow
only....after fixing.
This really is the incredible benefit to teaching is having 18 "testees" at
one time on a process. This week was Blurb book critique and I have 15
blurb books awaiting me with all KINDS of problems (and successes!) to learn
from!
Chris
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregg Kemp" <gregg.kemp@gmail.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: lumenprints not chromo?
My attempts at using fixer with similar multi-day pinhole exposures
resulted in the image pretty much disappearing off the paper. I used
Arista fixer at normal strength and diluted as much as 1:20, but always
lost most of the image. Perhaps a different fixer would work better?
I also had problems scanning at first, but that may just be my scanner
(an Epson 3200). I found that if I scanned a 5x7 negative at more than
600 dpi, the scanner would pause during the scan. And the scan would
show a slight darkening after the pause. So I now scan at 600 dpi. But
perhaps a scanner with more memory or more memory on my computer would
not do this. My suggestion is to scan a plain piece of paper at the
resolution you plan to use before scanning the actual negative, just to
be safe. I also put a piece of black felt behind the negative before
scanning, in hopes of keeping down the amount of light bouncing around -
just superstition perhaps.
Chris - I looked for the student work on your website that you mentioned,
but didn't find it. Would you please post the URL?
Gregg
On May 6, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
Scott,
I always fix mine. There is a noticeable loss of density and color
shift in the fix. I also know that Jerry Burchfield who does all those
Amazon exposures brings all images back in a black plastic bag to the
States and fixes at one time. Unless he has changed his process in the
last couple years, all of his previous lumenprints were fixed and I have
never heard of not fixing before...however, the idea to scan before
fixing is a great one and then you get a two- for-the-price-of-one
special.
My prints do not fade once fixed and archivally washed and treated as if
a normal BW print. You can see student examples on my website, and see
how brilliant they are--with fixing.
Re: scanning. I would find it shocking that a 90 day pinhole exposure
lumenprint (chromo is a different process entirely because it uses
darkroom chemistry, developer, activator, stabilizer) that will never
touch the developer but go straight into the fix, would be affected by a
one minute scan.
You will also notice a distinct color shift when dry prints are
rewetted. But then it reverts again when dry.
Chris
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Weber, Scott B"
<sweber@mail.barry.edu
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To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:06 PM
Just completed a 90 day pinhole exposure on gelatin silver paper.
Chromoscedasic print. The image looks good, but do I fix this? Maybe
some thiosulfate? Or should I leave it? My plan is to scan it but will
the light in the scanner affect the image?
Scott B. Weber
Associate Professor of Photography
Department of Fine Arts
Barry University
Miami Shores, Florida
305 899 4922
sweber@mail.barry.edu