[alt-photo] Re: they live! darkening down, Printing Out Image

[Loris Medici]

Yeees, that could be a very nice method for in-camera negative users, indeed! (Thanks much.) 

OTOH, I, being a colorized digital negative user, plus, - more importantly - a new cyanotype practitioner, never had too much problems with cyanotype highlights; both methods help in getting exquisite hightlights. ;)

Regards,
Loris.


On 29.Haz.2010, at 18:29, sam wang wrote:

> Hi Loris,
> 
> That's actually a very good way to tame the over-contrasty cyanotype - leaving it as long as over-night before "development" to bring in the highlights.
> 
> Sam Wang
> 
> 
> On Jun 29, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Loris Medici wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I would say that's the effect of humidity in the environment - strengthening
>> the print-out. Post-humidification is often recommended by masters, to get
>> even more subtle highlights and a stronger print-out...