RE: Ammonium Dichromate

i'm using the sun
--- Kate M <kateb@paradise.net.nz> wrote:

> If the pigment hasn't held it could also be the
> exposure, Trevor...but
> that does sound like a very weak mix of gum. Try
> changing the gum mix
> first, then you cn fine-tune the exposure. You don't
> say what you're
> using as a light source.
> I did think the brown sounded a bit - well - poo
> like.
> Kate
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trevor cunningham
> [mailto:tr_cunningham@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, 31 December 2004 2:39 a.m.
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: RE: Ammonium Dichromate
>
>
>
> --- Kate M <kateb@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>
> > I take my saturated solution of Amm. Di. and
> dilute
> > it 1:1 with
> > distillled water. I find this prints with better
> > contrast than the
> > saturated amm. Di.
>
> I'll experiment with this, thanks...
> >
> > Trevor, this is a great print for a first try! In
> > fact, it's a great print anyway. Did you scan it
> as
> a greyscale tho?
> Doh! Again (you're the third person I've confused),
> this linked print is the original darkroom print
> which
> was scanned and a negative made. Not the gum...the
> second attempt is in the bath now and looking really
> shabby (what you guys said about the gum not holding
> the pigment is so true...i used ivory black and only
> specks of it show in the highlights, the rest is
> baby
> poo brown) But, no, i did not use a greyscale in
> the
> scan, and the neg was made by inversion in PS. The
> original was shot with Kodak HIE and printed on
> Kodabrome F3.
>
> > I'd like to see the
> > colour.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Kate
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Judy Seigel [mailto:jseigel@panix.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, 30 December 2004 4:34 p.m.
> > To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> > Subject: Re: Ammonium Dichromate
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, T. E. Andersen wrote:
> > > Ps. You may still be right in saying that
> > dichromate concentrations
> > > does not
> > > matter. I have not taken the time to test the
> > consequences of
> > variability,
> > > since it is so easy just using a slightly lower
> > concentration than
> > > saturation.
> > >
> >
> > Let me put it this way: my own personal feeling is
> > that if you're gum
> > printing for reproduceability rather than
> discovery
> > you're missing half
> > the joy and might as well print digitally. Why
> make
> > the same gum print
> > twice? Life is too short and there are more prints
> > out there waiting to
> > happen than we can do in several lifetimes.
> >
> > In fact TRYING to get the same gum print may lead
> to miracles...
> >
> > Judy
> >
> >
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