From: Matti Koskinen (mjkoskin@koti.soon.fi)
Date: 03/10/03-11:25:32 AM Z
Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> Matti,
> I'd love to see an offlist jpeg of your image. I could send you mine,
> too. My exposures are around the 12 minute mark under UV lights (BL).
> Most of the books say gum is a "short scale" process. I can never
> figure that out, because i get a fully tonal image with gum that certainly
> doesn't bug me. But I'm not a platinum queen anyway, where I would get used
> to a truly looooooooooong tonal scale. Nor am I a scientist/densitometer
> specialist, preferring to fly by the seat of my pants.
> I'm gonna try that Zimmerman process of watercoloring the print without
> sensitizer, etc., and see where that takes me. I just went thru my posts
> that I had saved and Jack Brubaker--you've reported on that, too. Did you
> use watercolors without the sensitizer added as Zimmerman says, or paint
> with watercolored sensitizer on your print and then expose?
I tried them both. Using watercolor without sensitizer was a completely
black print, soaking the test strip overnight showed something where the
exposure was the longest 30 mins, the rest was black.
Mixing sensitizer, little gum and watercolor gave a good result
> Chris
> PS if i don't answer right away I'm out of town, this afternoon, to Moab.
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