Re: Gloy VISCOSITY?

Hi Judy, it is civisation with the "s" in the British Commonwealth
countries- "z" (zee) to you elsewhere-
although everyone watches the TV and totally screws up the language...
Susan.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: Gloy VISCOSITY?

>
>
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, pete wrote:
> > > As for the idea that "traditional gum" can only do "natural
development"
> > > -- wrong again... Aside from the time-honoured gum manipulations of
> > > Dripping, pouring, spraying & sponging water, & brushing, ET al., I
have
> > > Often developed a gum print with sawdust. Yes, a sawdust slurry. No
big
> > > deal if you understand the operation -- expose harder and soak
shorter.
> > > And/or use a higher ratio of dichromate to make a harder image.
> >
> > This one really does make me laugh I have been reading lots of your
emails
> > over many years esteeming the long soak development system time and time
> > again you have strongly denigrated. The time-honoured gum manipulations
of
> > dripping, pouring, spraying & sponging water, & brushing, etc
> >
> > Suddenly we have poacher turned gamekeeper the world spins!
>
> Pete darling, if I said it once I said it a hundred times, civilisation
> depends on the ability to make distinctions. To put it nicely, you flunk
> reading comprehension... Or to be more precise, you put words in my
> mouth.
>
> Just because I "esteem" key lime pie doesn't mean I "denigrate" orange
> juice. And because I like to exploit gum's capacity to do delicate detail,
> doesn't mean I have taken a vow of long soaks only -- although I have
> found long soaks an excellent approach to one-coat gum in particular: You
> can expose hard enough to keep the highlights, and develop long enough to
> get the shadow detail.
>
> Nor do I "strongly denigrate" the time-honoured gum manipulations of
> dripping, pouring, spraying & sponging water, & brushing, etc. In fact I
> recently mentioned my use of dahlia mister... and have probably written
> about one drop at a time, drips from small sponge, etc. In fact if you
> can find (without doctoring) me "strongly denigrating" development
> controls as above..... I'll take you to dinner. Meanwhile, please try to
> read more carefully.
>
> I have of course said that scrubbing, whether with a plastic sponge, brush
> or whatever, and/or brushing overall wipes out delicate detail in gum.
> You disagree?
>
> Oh, wait a minute -- isn't that "civilization" with a "z"?
>
> Judy
>
Received on Tue Mar 16 07:10:37 2004