What colour, how many drops, did it wash out completely? I was thinking an
indicator that would phosphoresce under certain lighting conditions. There
are a few glow in the dark paints available through craft stores but I doubt
they wash out easily.
~m
Robert wrote:
> I have added food dye to sliver nitrate. It worked well for the
> prints hat I made.
>
> Robert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Koch-Schulte [mailto:mkochsch@shaw.ca]
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 9:03 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Silver Nitrate Tracer
>
> I've been doing some salt and albumen prints and finding it a bit
> frustrating that I can't "see" the silver nitrate I'm coating into my
> paper. Is there something I can add to the silver nitrate solution
> which will show a visible tint when combined with the salted papers?
> Or under UV light? That "something" that would obviously have to be
> able to wash out in the fix.
>
> ~m
Received on Fri Dec 2 14:34:43 2005
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