RE: Fixing Lumin Prints

Marek -

This weekend I used Ilford Galerie paper and exposed for around an hour.
Perhaps I will take a picture of the image before fixing and present that as
the finished product. <g> After fixing with 10% sodium thiosulfate for about
10 seconds a great deal of the blue color from the paper being exposed to the
sun went away. Other colors either behind or near the flower held a little
better, but suffered nonetheless. I then fixed for a few minutes with a 1%
dilution with no "perceptable" change. After washing, a great majority of the
color had gone away, though perhaps this had happened before the wash and I
just remembered differently.

I am going to try to expose using my black lights tonight, as it would be good
to be able to have a semblance of repeatability (as well be able to do this
without a frame, which is necessary when exposing outside, due to the wind
possibly moving things around).

Cheers -

george

--- Marek Matusz <marekmatusz@hotmail.com> wrote:

> George,
> How long are your exposures? The more exposure, the more intense the final
> print.
> What parers are you using?
> Marek
>
> >From: "Baird, Darryl" <dbaird@umflint.edu>
> >Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> >To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> >Subject: RE: Fixing Lumin Prints
> >Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:30:15 -0400
> >
> >I think this is a very good question. I also tried a 10% solution of
> >hypo and the colors largely faded (those were on the bottom row of my
> >examples).
> >
> >I'm about to try a 2% solution, similar to the argyrotype process for
> >two miutes and see what happens...this will be on a dark-stored (one
> >week) image.
> >
> >...to be continued
> >
> >Darryl Baird
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: George L Smyth [mailto:glsmyth@yahoo.com]
> >Sent: Sun 9/11/2005 9:46 AM
> >To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> >Subject: Fixing Lumin Prints
> >
> >I have tried flowers and am not getting great colors. Unfortunately,
> >when I
> >fix the paper the majority of them go away. I tried fixing with 10%
> >sodium
> >thiosulfate but that is way too strong. My question is "how little
> >can I fix
> >with the hopes that the paper will be properly fixed?" How far can I
> >dilute
> >the fix and still have it effective, or am I just out of luck?
> >
> >Cheers -
> >
> >george
> >
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Received on Mon Sep 12 15:12:24 2005