[Alt-photo] Re: A DEFINITIVE ANSWER?

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If the print is primarily palladium, just leaving it for 15-60 minutes in a tray of hypo-clear can bleach the print. I have seen this first hand after accidentally forgetting to move a print in the last clearing bath to my rinse tray. I'm not sure how controllable this is, but I have talked to others who have seen this effect.

Clay

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On Jul 18, 2013, at 9:21 PM, Keith Gerling <keith.gerling at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you have an emotional attachment to this dark print and want to save it
> at the cost of some extra (plenty extra!) work, you might want to consider
> "lightening it up" with a layer of white gum exposed though a positive.  It
> won't be the same as a properly exposed pt/pd, but it might be better.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Diana Bloomfield
> <dlhbloomfield at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Hi Bob,
>> 
>> I've obviously never bleached a pt/pd print, but I am guessing that it
>> might be difficult to get an even tonality, and you might also lose some
>> smoothness.  But I could be wrong.  If I wanted to know how to do it,
>> though, I would not try it on an otherwise acceptable 20x24 print.   I also
>> would not throw out the print.  I'd keep it, and just consider it a darker
>> version.   If every alt process print came out looking exactly the same,
>> with no differences-- I would be shocked and a bit disappointed.  At that
>> point, you may as well just make a few digital prints and embrace the
>> sameness.
>> 
>> Diana
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 18, 2013, at 7:10 PM, BOB KISS wrote:
>> 
>>> DEAR DIANA & ERIC,
>>>      As mentioned in my original e-mail *I did make a lighter print* but
>>> it seems a shame to toss out a 20X24 palladium print that would be easily
>>> correctible with a subtle bleaching if it were a silver gelatin.
>>>      Further, I believed Ansel Adams when he said, making a musical
>>> analogy, “The negative is the score.  The print is the performance!”
>> Like
>>> most performing musicians who "shape" (volume and equalization) their
>> sound
>>> to the size and acoustics of the hall in which they will be performing, I
>>> try to fine tune the tonality of my prints according to the type of
>> lighting
>>> under which they will be shown and viewed.  I have a track light set up
>> to
>>> view my dry prints that will be shown in galleries with spotlighting.  I
>>> also ask the collectors who buy my prints what lighting will be on the
>>> prints in the rooms where they intend to hang them.  The differences are
>> not
>>> enormous; they are subtle, but most of you on this list would see them
>> and
>>> the prints do sing when printed for the specific lighting.  So the
>> "brighter
>>> light" theory doesn't work here.
>>>      Earlier today I received an e-mail suggesting that HBr, hydrobromic
>>> acid, does work as a mild reducing agent for palladium.  The trick is
>>> finding this on this little island called Barbados.  If I can find some
>> and
>>> try reducing this print I will report results.  The other option Is to
>> cut
>>> it up and use it to test new toners and new surface waxes.  Living here
>> one
>>> learns to waste as little as possible.
>>>              CHEERS!
>>>                      BOB
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