[alt-photo] Re: New gum pigment

[Judy Seigel]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Paul Viapiano wrote:

> Normally, I coat the paper, let it dry naturally for about 1/2 an hour (I'm 
> in the southwest US, low humidity) and expose. That never changes...until 
> yesterday. I coated the paper, life intervened, and I ended up slapping the 
> neg on about 4-5 hours later. The pinholes I use for registration did not 
> line up. Uh oh...so I turned the paper over and brushed some water from a 
> foam brush over the image area, just enough to get it damp, waited until the 
> shine wore off, maybe 10 minutes or under, flipped it over and registered 
> perfectly.

You may also live a charmed life... that's another way to ruin a negative, 
or do it 10 times & never get it at just the right point. (Tho you could 
simply be an extremely careful artisan.)

PS.  Size of neg and the particular material are probably also variables, 
no?

J.