From: Jonathan Bailey (quryhous@midcoast.com)
Date: 09/28/02-07:42:41 AM Z
Christopher,
> my highlights (white with detail) in my
> daguerreotypes I'm printing from chromes are blowing out and
> solarizing.
> Besides these two options are there any I'm forgetting?
I've only done mercury development with the few dags I've made - and with
mercury developed plates you have contrast control by varying the fuming
ratios between the iodine and bromine. I'm not sure what controls you have
along this line with Becq. plates....
That being said - are you perhaps in danger of being an "expert about what
you want" regarding the solarized blue?? I find the solarized areas quite
compelling in those images - and it is very much part of the process.
Another possible way to look at it: why not exploit it and make a virtue out
of a necessity??
FWIW - Jon
www.jonathan-bailey.com
Tenants Harbor, Maine
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