[alt-photo] Re: Getting started with gum dichromate printing

[Tom Kershaw]

Within the last 6 months or so I've become more interested in colour 
photography, and as such I'm exploring some of the alternative printing 
options to inkjet or RA-4. Considering the current non-feasibility of 
dye transfer printing, the two major strands that emerge are colour 
carbon (unrealistic until I've started making good monochrome carbon 
prints), and gum dichromate.

PF Journal #1 is available as a PDF download from the 
alternativephotography.com website.

Tom


Paul Viapiano wrote:
> Agree with Diana on this...it's PF Journal #1, but in almost every 
> issue there is an incredible wealth of info on gum. There is another 
> issue in particular that I return to all the time that features four 
> (?) gum printers and their methods, Keith Gerling being one of my 
> faves...
>
> But in the end, gum is one of those things that just needs printing 
> experience, and because of the process it takes a lot of time to work 
> through. It's been a year for me now, and I feel I'm just now 
> beginning to get a grip on it.
>
> Paul
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana Bloomfield" 
> <dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net>
> To: "The alternative photographic processes mailing list" 
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> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 7:34 AM
> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Getting started with gum dichromate printing
>
>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> Sorry to say I haven't read Chris's article, although she was very 
>> helpful to me in emails when I was starting to gum print (thanks, 
>> Chris!), but  by far-- the most helpful and detailed (with  
>> illustrations no less) are Judy's PF Journal articles.  There was 
>> one  particular issue that was very detailed, for beginners.  My copy 
>> is  pretty stained and dog-eared now, but it was incredibly helpful.  
>> I  don't have it in front of me, so I don't know which issue it is-- 
>> but  if you don't have it-- or any of them-- you may as well order 
>> all the  copies now.  Those PF Journals I return to all the time-- 
>> incredibly  informative and really interesting.  Katharine's website 
>> is helpful,  too, and I thought Sam's article on Unblinking Eye was 
>> good as well.   By far, though, for starting-- I do think Judy's 
>> step-by-step  instructions can't be beat.
>>
>> Diana
>> On Apr 8, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Tom Kershaw wrote:
>>
>>> I'm considering whether to try gum printing, partly to gain some 
>>> experience with separation processes in anticipation of working with 
>>> colour carbon printing at some point in the future. Is Christina 
>>> Anderson's 2008 article on alternativephotography.com  still a good 
>>> place to start?
>>>
>>> Tom Kershaw
>>>
>>>
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