[Alt-photo] Re: Was Sulfamic now VDB and pt/pd gold leaf

Marek Matusz marekmatusz at hotmail.com
Wed May 8 15:45:03 UTC 2013


Loris,
 
Does the argyrotype take that well to the gold toning. WOuld you have some examples to look at?
 
I tried argyrotype years back and it was a disaster, but now I am ready to try it again on acid treated Fabriano soft press that gave me wonderful results with palladium.
 
Marek
 

> Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 08:34:20 +0300
> From: mail at loris.medici.name
> To: alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org
> Subject: [Alt-photo] Re: Was Sulfamic now VDB and pt/pd gold leaf
> 
> Diluting the toner slows down the toning action, which makes possible
> getting beautiful and controllable split tones.
> 
> Regards,
> Loris.
> 
> 
> 2013/5/8 <sanking at clemson.edu>
> >
> > Gold toned vandykes are, in my opinion, the most interesting looking of
> > the iron sensitive alternative prints. The beautiful blue-black look is
> > truly unique in this type of print, and when toned, and processed
> > correctly, the prints are probably as stable as pt/pd prints.
> >
> > These days I do most of my printing with carbon transfer, but for those
> > who might be interested in gold toned vandykes see my article.
> > http://www.sandykingphotography.com/resources/technical-writing/vandyke
> >
> > And toning a print with the minimum solution of a gold-thiourea toner, as
> > Loris describes, is very economical.
> >
> >
> > Sandy
> >
> >
> > > I see, OTOH 1g gold chloride would make 2000ml gold-thiourea toner which
> > > is
> > > pretty workable (in a use and discard regime) by diluting 1+2 or 1+3.
> > > About
> > > 60-150ml diluted toner would suffice for prints sized between 5x7" to
> > > 11x14", in flat bottomed trays.
> > >
> > > I should find a vellum that works locally, haven't succeeded in that so
> > > far, but I haven't looked hard enough.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Loris.
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