[alt-photo] Re: Follow up on Chlorox Bleach Development

[Loris Medici]

Hi Cor, thanks for the interesting observation.

BTW, you may use a slightly stronger bath (up to 4-5%) and/or do longer
soakings in the bleach and/or try spray / brush development after the layer
is - comparatively - softened "in order to shorten the development times".
Spray / brush developed layers are sometimes very interesting... (Due;
graininess or slight brush marks or selective development.) Overexposure +
bleach bath makes you work with the brush much easier (especially you have
manual dexterity problems); because the layer isn't as vulnerable to
abrasion as it is with normal exposure + water bath method...

Regards,
Loris.

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Subject: [alt-photo] Follow up on Chlorox Bleach Development

...I took the same negative as above (high density, in general you do not
want that for gum) I made a gum layer with quite some Alizarin Crimson (eye
balling here) and exposed for 1 hour, really cooking the gum layer. Then I
started slowly bleaching back in 2% chlorox, 15 min in the bleach (2%) 15
min in the water, for about 2 hours...