Re: Who put the Glaze on Weston's Pepper?
Jack Fulton (jfulton@itsa.ucsf.EDU)
Tue, 19 Mar 1996 10:06:30 -0800 (PST)
> >>>>> robert hudyma <rhudyma@idirect.com> writes:
>
> > I noticed that there was a shiny metalic silver colored deposit
> > on the surface of Weston's "Pepper #38" in the areas of the
> > print having the deepest blacks.
I've just read Carson's post re the fixer etc. and agree that most
likely it is that. I cannot imagine Weston using an exhausted fix, but
.. anything is possible. I write my post because I have "inadvertantly"
achieved such results while primarily printing on RC papers in the mid
1970's. I had assumed it was my "rushed" technique. I was always into
attempts to shorten immersion times due a growing California drought. My
assumption was that residual fixer has worked on the shadow areas to
produce this 'tarnish'.
Subsequently, I have used Rockland's 'Halochrome' which has a high
Sodium Hydroxide (I think) and Ammonia concentration and have laid blame
on perhaps some of that combo being the culprit.
Jack Fulton>
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