RE: Lumin prints tests

I should have tried some Forte during my tests this weekend. Forte accepts
toner better than any paper I know of. I'll have to give this a shot soon.

I found Ilford WT to give nice colors, but also lose them after fixing and
toning. I am not sure if there is a way to keep them or not. Also, I have
been using either dead leaves or negatives, thus no transfer of color to the
paper. Perhaps my next few will involve some flowers so that this can be
examined.

Cheers -

george

--- mmatusz@pdq.net wrote:

>
> All,
> My initial experiments for the Lumin prints were on Forte Warm Tone (stil
> good for B&W printing). This is the most amazing paper (I have not tried
> Ilford WT yet) with exposed areas dark blue and shadows red to pink. I
> place the plants under the glass, but not in a contact frame. Under
> Houston sun, the plants release plenty of moisture and I can see the moist
> areas of the paper take a different color during exposure. I exposed some
> Forte polygrade, the result was much more of a brownish print. Most
> dissappointing was the Agfa MCC Classic, dull, muddy print.
>
> Marek, Houston
>
> > George,
> >
> > all those test prints are on Ilford Warm Tone FB, straight out of the
> > plastic bag
> >
> > FWIW, I'm waiting for about a week to fix them (top row), then see if
> > there is any improvement in the rentention of the beautiful colors
> >
> > Darryl Baird
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: George L Smyth [mailto:glsmyth@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Sun 9/4/2005 10:12 PM
> > To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> > Subject: Re: Lumin prints tests
> >
> > I played around with the some today. The results I got were not as
> > even as I
> > would have thought. I tried Ilford MGIV, Ilford Warm Tone, and two
> > sheets of
> > Brovira. I placed decayed leaved on reach and placed within frames.
> > I
> > expected the different papers to give me varied results, but the two
> > sheets of
> > Brovira came out differently, which I thought was odd. I got some
> > nice
> > coloration with one of them (though not nearly to the extent as the
> > images in
> > the link provided, which makes me wonder if they were treated with
> > S2/S30 -
> > unfortunately, most of the color went away with fixing and toning) but
> > nothing
> > with the other. Exposure time was about six or seven hours, with some
> > of the
> > time not being in direct sunlight.
> >
> > Alas, like one other poster I, too, tossed several hundred sheets of
> > expired
> > paper about nine months ago in my attempt to reduce clutter. Perhaps
> > eBay will
> > be helpful inthat regard. I will try again tomorrow with some other
> > ideas and
> > perhaps my results will be a little more interesting.
> >
> > Cheers -
> >
> > george
> >
>
>

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Received on Tue Sep 6 11:15:36 2005