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

[Loris Medici]

Hi Marek,

Yes, gold-thiourea toning (I don't do gold-thiocyanate? toning) works great
/ equally well with Argyrotypes. I just did a split toned print tonight
(It's not perfect, I'll have to reprint it. But it's fine enough to show
one of the possible results when gold toning Argyrotypes...) see it here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loris-medici/8720991367/

Regards,
Loris.



2013/5/8 Marek Matusz <marekmatusz at hotmail.com>

> 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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