[Alt-photo] Re: A DEFINITIVE ANSWER?

[Diana Bloomfield]

You could always use the darker one, and write up some esoteric reasoning for why you preferred and ultimately chose ('preferred' and 'chose' being the key words here) to print the image so dark.  That's probably what I would do.  And then I'd get a brighter light bulb.  :)  You probably could do some weird bleaching, but you'd get a less than desirable, uneven, grainy print from it (I'm guessing).

Just bite the bullet, and re-print it.  Another option might be to add a gum layer to it.  I'm not sure it would actually brighten it, but a layer of a warm golden pigment, for instance, might make it more interesting and give it a look that is more desirable.  And then write an esoteric piece about that.  

So-- yes-- all in all, I'd go with the esoteric reasoning no matter what you decide to do.  And if you make it as indecipherable as possible, who can argue with that?

Diana

On Jul 18, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Eric Neilsen wrote:

> A brighter light bulb.... :  ) 
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> DEAR LIST,
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>            Can I or can I not bleach (even slightly) a print made mostly of
> palladium?  I have a print made of 95% palladium and it is a bit dark.  
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> 1)  Most books on pt/pd printing warn against using HCl as the first
> clearing bath with palladium prints because it can bleach them.         
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> 2)  Don Bryant posted Michael Mutmansky’s procedure for bleaching out black
> spots on pt/pd prints by first placing some dilute HCl on the spot and then
> some dilute chlorine bleach on the same spot.  Might this work on a macro
> scale by first immersing a print in the dilute HCl then into the dilute
> bleach?  
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> 3)  But, on the other hand, some people say that it is impossible to bleach
> up a dark palladium print.  
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>            Am I the only one who finds this contradictory?  
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>            Soooooooooooooooooooooo, has anyone had success slightly
> bleaching up a dark palladium print?  Or does this sound feasible?
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> Of course I am making another lighter print but is there any way not to
> waste the dark one?
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> CHEERS!
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> BOB
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