From: Wendy Gollihue (wgolli@flash.net)
Date: 01/29/02-06:23:46 PM Z
Jeff,
I'd love to hear from you about the Lenox. Carl and others mentioned that
paper after I had entered my order.
And thanks for that tip about Rives. After my trials today with it, that
was my conclusion. But I also did not like the amount of sensitizer that it
absorbed. I believe that would be an even greater amount needed with a
brush. I'm not really sold on that paper at all when i experience such ease
and beauty with others.
I forgot to say that I am using only palladium at this point. I am
minimizing as many variables as I possibly can. I used Potassium oxalate
for dev. and citric acid for clearing. Once I settle with a choice or two
of papers I want to experiment with my developer. I have some ammonium
citrate that I would like to try.
Thanks,
Wendy (TX)
----- Original Message -----
From: <jeffbuck@swcp.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: Paper again.
> Wendy Gollihue <wgolli@flash.net> said:
>
> > Clay and Jeff,
> >
> > It's me again.
> >
> > I have tried the Rives BFK, Rising Drawing Bristol Plate 2 ply, and the
> > Stratmore 500 Bristol plate 2/ply today. I used the same neg. on all
three.
> >
> > I had coated them all with 1% OA by the dipping method and hung dry.
> >
> > 65% humdity today outside.
> >
> Hi Wendy: My only comment is that I understand brush-coating to be pretty
> mandatory w/ BFK.... By the way, I just ordered some Lenox 250 from
Daniel
> Smith (25 sheets of 22/30 for $25!!). Will report....
>
> > Rives BFK
> >
> > I used a rod for application had difficulty spreading it. and it
soaked up
> > the sensitizer. On the 2nd sheet I used enuf sensitizer for 5x7 and
finally
> > was able to get it spread. The results were less than desirable.
Grainy
> > and weak dmax.
> >
> > Rising Drawing.
> >
> > applied well with the rod. warm tone. the detail is gorgeous. tonal
> > range desireable. I like it!! 2 ply seemed to bring the demax out well
> > enough. I don't use a step but it seemed to dry down a little lighter.
> > Grain fine and Dmax pretty good.
> >
> > Stathmore 500 2/ply
> >
> > Applied with a rod and the sensitizer resisted at first.....it did not
> > absorb so quickly. But with about 4 pushes it did just fine. I'll admit
> > that it was harder to determine the printing time. As a result, I did
print
> > it a tad dark but the detail in the highlight and shadows shows well.
It
> > seems to have cooler tones. I really like this one the most. It was a
> > river scene that I used for all 3 and the detail in the water
reflections
> > and the swirls came out beautiful on this paper. Grain fine and DMAX is
> > pretty great!
> >
> > All this kind of makes my Arches Platine prints, from previous printing
> > sessions look just kind of okay.
> >
> >
> > Wendy (TX)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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