Re: Silver Nitrate in Albumen Printing... Concentration Question

hmm interesting.

yeah there is a corolation between the ratio and yellowing in the
highlites... and so i spiked my salt concentration
so i should just test the albumen with different concentrations of
silver

cool.
On Feb 9, 2004, at 1:59 AM, Loris Medici wrote:

> Hi Adam,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Adam. Waterson [mailto:artistboi@speakeasy.net]
>> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 11:42 PM
>> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>> Subject: Silver Nitrate in Albumen Printing... Concentration Question
>>
>>
>> Ey y'all
>>
>> I'm working with Albumen printing and am coming across a bit of a
>> difficulty with my sensitizing material. I was wondering if
>> any of you
>> had a good "recipe" for the amount of Silver Nitrate to
>> Water. I know
>> there is a threshold at which too much Silver Nitrate makes the print
>> weaker, not stronger. Was just wondering anyone had a really good
>> ...
>
> I don't know much about albumen and/or salted paper, but aren't these
> processes similar in the aspect of silver nitrate to salt proportion?
> AFAIK the "right" proportion is 6 parts of silver nitrate for 1 parts
> of
> salt... So, if you want to sensitize using 12% silver nitrate -> your
> albumin solution should contain 2% salt, to use 15% silver nitrate ->
> 2,5% salt and so on...
>
> Regards,
> Loris.
>
>
Received on Mon Feb 9 01:19:21 2004