From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 06/15/03-09:22:21 PM Z
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> >
> > Would you explain why this is better than one coat if you're using the
> > same negative? I've never tried it, but I gather that you are in effect
> > doing the "second" coat blind -- that is, without having seen the first
> > coat.> Judy
>
> I should clarify. What has worked best for me is not one coat gum or one
> color gum, but two or three layers of gum on top of one another that
> produces a more monochrome "looking" image--e.g. burnt sienna and black, or
> yellow, burnt umber, and blue, for instance--because I haven't yet gotten
> the dilutions of each color down correctly to make a tricolor/CMY(K) print
> to look normal--it usually is biased to a particular color, you know? You do
> see the image printed out so it is not totally a blind proposition, but you
> never know what you get until development for the first run thru of that
> negative.
Yes, that's what I thought -- that you haven't seen anything developed
until you've coated two or more times... so you don't know what's going to
stay and what wash off. You may have some idea of the color, assuming you
can mentally subtract the dichromate, but that's surely working blind in
every respect but color & semi-blind for that... at least as I understand
your description. I daresay it removes the problem of re-register, but
that "solution" sounds (to me) worse than the problem.
Judy
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