RE: Silver Nitrate Tracer

Michael,

I used blue food dye. It was Kraft food dye and came in tubes. It was thick
so I diluted it with water. I not sure how many drops, since it has been
sometime ago. There was no trace of the dye in the print.

Best regards,
Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Koch-Schulte [mailto:mkochsch@shaw.ca]
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 12:14 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Silver Nitrate Tracer

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 Sat Dec 3 09:43:21 2005