Re: Gum online

Hi Katharine,
I got a question for you or any list member.
Working the combination of gum bichromate and cyano it is an interesting and
exciting work that can go from full color to any other color option.
What has been your experience with gum and Van Dyke?
Why Van Dyke? because has silver on it with further options.
Anybody has anything to show me?
thanks,
Giovanni

----- Original Message -----
From: "Katharine Thayer" <kthayer@pacifier.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 4:09 AM
Subject: Gum online

> Too tired to do anything constructive this morning, I amused myself by
> googling "gum bichromate." I think the last time I did this was about
> three years ago, before I started building my own site. There wasn't
> much out there then, and it was mostly the same sites that had been
> there when I first came online in 1998.
>
> The difference between three years ago and now is amazing. There are so
> many people doing beautiful and interesting work in gum. I was saving
> some of my favorite URLs to recommend, but then I realized what a silly
> occupation that is. Just google gum bichromate and pick out your own
> favorites.
>
> There's a few clunkers as far as information, like the statement that
> one might replace the recommended potassium dichromate with ammonium
> dichromate, which is "faster but doesn't give as long a tonal scale as
> potassium dichromate" an obvious mistatement of fact, but there's
> misinformation wherever you look, including on this list.
>
> In fact I was thinking about the editable encyclopedia Gordon pointed to
> with the empty page on gum, and got to imagining all the gum experts
> editing each other's instructions and excising portions of each other's
> text that they consider incorrect. It made me laugh, to think of it.
> Katharine
>
Received on Mon Mar 28 10:20:32 2005