curzon@tegenlicht.com
Date: 09/29/03-08:46:37 AM Z
I'm very new to the alt-photo techniques. I recently made my first Bromoil prints!! I'll send a link as soon as I have scanned
the prints and posted it on my website.
Since I want to learn a lot I read (almost) all the discussions on this forum. I check the suggested websites also (most of the time)
to learn, to get inspired, ...
I think it was Mark who refered someone to the website of Dick Arentz. I checked his website and liked his prints. I saw he also wrote
a book about Platinum and Palladium prints: see http://www.dickarentz.com/books.htm
Can anyone tell me if this is a good book? I'm not suggesting this could be a bad book but is this a good book to learn about this technique in general, so see what
it is about and maybe to use is (later on) as a guide to try it myself? Or is there an other book better to be read first?
For instance: I'm reading The Keepers of Light (W Crawford). This is an excelent book on the techniques and its history, but also a good HOW TO book.
Thanks,
Bert from Holland
BTW: my next course will be Cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown ansd salted Paper in November and later this year Albumen printing.
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Van: Ender100@aol.com [mailto:Ender100@aol.com]
Verzonden: zondag 28 september 2003 7:09
Aan: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Onderwerp: Re: PT/PD density/contrast/definition
Nick,
I would tend to agree with Sandy King's response, that you have probably overexposed your negative of the digital step tablet on the waxed paper and perhaps have too much contrast in your mix. One thing I wasn't sure of in your description, you said you added 1 drop of PT to the mix for color. What are you using for contrast? If the PT you added was the famous "magic bullet," sometimes called "Na2," or Sodium Chloroplatinate, then my guess is you have an extremely contrasty mix for your negative. See: Dick Arentz Na2 Contrast Ranges, ©Dick Arentz.
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