Re: making regular photo paper POP

Verrrry cool...another thing for me to try.

The colors in Burchfield's work appear all over, under, even, the densest
part of the flower "neg" where there can be a brilliant green, yellows,
pinks, reds, you name it!

The book is worth checking out at a Barnes and Noble...
Chris

> So interesting that it's Burchfield. He did a related process sometime I
> think in the 1970s which I found in a book and used a lot... What you
> might call a stop bath toner. That is,if your negative is REALLY
> contrasty, you can expose/develop the available tones , then give a very
> quick weak stop (possibly, I seem to recall, a well-used stop), then take
> a 100-watt tungsten bulb and REALLY burn in the missing highlights (I was
> doing this on the old Brovira #5, sometimes so hard that the "Mazda" on
> the bulb imprinted on the paper). The result was tones in many beautiful
> colors, as described in those photograms -- BUT, the tendency with most
> papers was for most of the colors to fade a lot on fixing.
>
> It's possible the alkaline fixer described works better (though I was told
> it should be *acid* -- so go figure). I also assume different papers are
> different. I found that to keep a strong pink, or even a greyish pink, I
> had to have REALLY STRONG pink to start (with the Brovira most other color
> was lost). Since this method also uses chemical developer, I think that
> could be another variable.
>
> The tone of course appeared mostly in sky areas, which were the "bullet
> proof" parts of the negative. I'd guess the tones in the photograms appear
> around the silhouettes of the shapes???
> Judy
Received on Fri Sep 2 13:28:37 2005