Re: acid bath for cyanotype

[sstoney@pdq.net (shannon stoney)]

>On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, shannon stoney wrote:
>>
>> I tried the acid bath for the first wash with cyanotype, and it did
>> intensify it, but it sort of worried me, because so much blue came out into
>> the bath. It seemed as if it was washing away a lot of the prussian blue.
>
>
>It's possible the blue in the bath was because more blue was formed,
>perhaps in the higher registers. Did you compare prints from identical
>exposures?

Yes, and the ones with the initial acid wash had a longer scale.  Do you
think I should stop worrying that blue was washing out?

--shannon
>
>J.