All in all this is very nice, but hardly a controllable system for producing
brown prints. It seems that as the print dries during exposure, there is a
increasingly restrained development happening. The question that I have is
there any way that anyone knows of to chemically restrain the development of
a palladium print. I've tried glycerine to no avail. It tends to dry out as
the print is first dried. I've also tried the hackers approach and started
dumping all sorts of things in the emulsion, to wit: glycerine, zinc
chloride, zinc acetate, mercuric chloride, sodium oxalate, pot oxalate, EDTA
tetrasodium. No brown. In conventional palladium printing all you ever get
is brown, and black is the hard thing to get, this is just the opposite.
Any of you gurus out there have any ideas?
I hope all of my ruminations on this project doesn't bore the hell out of
everyone. I just figured that some may find it interesting and a little
different from the typical list topic.
Dick Sullivan
Bostick & Sullivan
Santa Fe, New mexico