From: Clay (wcharmon@wt.net)
Date: 10/26/03-06:41:59 PM Z
There have been several discussions about this in the past, and the
gist seems to be that it depends on *how* you print gum. I do gumovers
and multicoat gum, so I have found that the platinum curve works fine.
It would not work if you want to do single coat gum, however.
Clay
On Sunday, October 26, 2003, at 06:12 PM, Jeff Morris wrote:
> I've been reading the messages for a couple of weeks now and this is
> my first request so I hope I doing things the proper way, if not,
> someone please let me know the proper way to request information.
>
> I've had really good results printing both cyanotypes and Vandyke
> prints from spectural density (orange) negatives made on an Epson 2200
> using the techniques outlined in Dan Burkholder's book.
>
> Has anyone used spectural density negatives for making gum prints?
> If so, I would appreciate any recommendations on which curves to start
> with in order to produce negatives with the proper density?
>
> If spectral density negs won't work, does anyone have any suggestions
> on making grayscale digital negs with proper density? Also, which
> curves would be a good starting point?
>
> Thanks in advance to everyone responding to my inquiry,
>
> Jeff Morris
> jm@jeffmorris.com
>
> PS: when I tried to access the archives at
> http://www.jump.net/~gwalker/altphoto
> I was forwarded to http://members.xoom.com/altphotoprc/ but the link
> doesn't seem to be working. I got the "can't find server" message. Any
> suggestions on how to access the archives?
>
>
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