RE: price of pt/pd printing

Bob, I meant to go back after I answered that and find out if the color was

1) gray - fogged

Or

2) yellowish - not cleared.

My first answer was for fogged not stained by lack of clearing. So Chris
Gray or Yellow?

Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street, Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
214-827-8301
http://ericneilsenphotography.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: BOB KISS [mailto:bobkiss@caribsurf.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 10:31 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: 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 12:29:22 2005