RE: price of pt/pd printing

DEAR ERIC & CHRIS,
        I may be WAY off track here but have either of you considered that the tone
in the areas that should be white might be an indication of a clearing
problem?
                                        CHEERS!
                                                BOB

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Neilsen [mailto:e.neilsen@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 9:33 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: RE: price of pt/pd printing

I have no excuse for my typos; just a lack of skills with a keyboard and
proof reading.

... to put your negative...

This might also be an indicator that your ferric is turning into ferrous.
Do the potassium ferricynide test. Mix a small amount, 1/4 teaspoon or so,
in 25ml water. Place a drop or two of your ferric into it. If the drops
turn blue, it's do do. If the drops are brown, every thing is fine. Use a
white background or white mixing vessel to perform the test. It makes it
easier to see the results.

If your exposure are short, a about two minutes to three minutes and you are
seeing fog, it is bad ferric. If your exposures are 12 to 15 minutes or
more, it is probably just light migration.

Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street
Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
http://e.neilsen.home.att.net
http://ericneilsenphotography.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christina Z. Anderson [mailto:zphoto@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 7:49 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: price of pt/pd printing
>
> Thanks, Eric,
>
> No it is not bleeding, but faint exposure, so I think I have to do the
> ruby
> lith thing, like you say, below.
>
> To address the second point, the staples were big enough to go through my
> fleshy palm and hit the baby finger bone, but not come out the other side.
> And I didn't even bleed on the matt board!!
>
> The irony is, that very afternoon walking in Clemson's Botanical Gardens,
> (this is gospel and you're gonna think I'm making it up) I was lunged at
> by
> a copperhead. So, I'll take puncture wounds from a staple gun any day
> over
> fang marks from a copperhead. I figured my biorhythms were off so I came
> home and went to bed.
>
> Boy is that a huge digression.
> Chris
>
> > If you are getting fogging of the edges that should be paper white, you
> > may
> > need to consider to put you negative on top of your ruby mask or use
> ruby
> > tape around the backside of the opening; that which is in direct contact
> > with the paper. Light can travel along your negative material and
> expose
> > the coated area to enough light to give you fogged edges.
> >
> > As for you other bleeding... When I worked at a frame shop many years
> > back, we'd call that putting yourself into the work a bit too much if
> your
> > blood stained the work. I hope these were small staples and no those
> used
> > to
> > put the frame together but rather those used to hold the work in the
> > frame.
> > Either way I hope you recover with no ill effects.
> > > Hope that helps
> > EJ Neilsen
Received on Mon Apr 11 10:30:30 2005