From: Vincent Dobson (manitec@bellsouth.net)
Date: 02/17/03-02:48:21 PM Z
The name "Silver Gelatin" was invented by photographers because it had a
more mysterious air to it and it allows them to charge more for their
prints. :)
Vince Dobson
Visions In Nature
www.VisionsInNature.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Erickson [mailto:kerickso@ryerson.ca]
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 3:27 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Silver Gelatin...?
Yep, silver gelatin is basic black and white photography. Fibre based or
resin coated, the emulsion is in both cases silver gelatin.
Liquid emulsion (such as Liquid Light or it's competitors) is also silver
gelatin, but it allows you to utilise the image on different substrates
(glass, stone, wood, etc.)
Martin Reed's Silver gelatin: a user's guide to liquid photographic
emulsions is a good place to fill in the gaps (if you can find it).
Cheers,
Kris
Steve Bell wrote:
alright,
so i don't want to seem like an idiot, and i very well might with the
following question. please remember, i'm a student.
anyway, so i was talking to a friend of mine the other day about different
photo processes that i want to try, and i mentioned silver gelatin printing.
she said 'isn't that what basic black and white is?' now up until then i was
sure that silver gelatin was different. i've seen a lot of prints in books
that beside them say 'silver gelatin print', and a lot of prints that don't
say that. also, i went to alternativephotography.com and there was a silver
gelatin gallery there, too. this also has led me to believe my friend is
wrong.
so what's the deal with silver gelatin? i'd like to give it a shot, but if
my friend is right, i've already had my hand in it.
can anyone shine some light on the subject?
thanks,
Steve
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