Re: Size matters?

Matt,

do you float the paper to salt it? In my experience,
mottling has come from the size/salt being on the back
side of the paper or having gone through the paper.
This happened when I dunked the paper and sometimes
when I brushed on the size. I always float to size
now and my prints are pretty consistent.

On the other hand I do have had days where, for who
knows what reason, my prints came out looking
uniformly bad.

David Barker

PS. do both papers have the same surface - i.e. hot
press/cold?

--- Matt Baily <MattyBaily@netscape.net> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> I have recently been making salt prints(one of the
> formulae from the
> Liam Lawless artical in post-factory) on 210gsm
> fabriano 5. They were
> coming out pretty nice; really good resolution and
> contrast. Getting to
> the point, I heard that fabriano 5 has stopped
> production, so I panic
> bought 50 sheets. I bought the 300gsm, but before I
> had been using
> 210gsm. I made a print on paper from the new pack
> and to my dismay it
> was mottled, weak, low contrast and with poor
> resolution. I conclude
> that there must be less or uneven sizing in this
> heavier paper. Does
> anybody have any suggestions what would caused this
> change? Do you think
> a few dunks in the gelatin size and a hardening with
> formalin in between
> will cure this? Any advice would be greatly
> appreciated.
> Cheers,
> Matt
>

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Received on Fri Dec 19 14:44:39 2003