Re: update on lumen prints

Christina -

Thanks for the information. I think that this process is all over the place.
Many of mine retain some color following fix, but not enough to be interesting.

In a previous message I mentioned that I tried 10% sodium (as opposed to
ammonium) thiosulfate and within 10 seconds most of the color had been lost, so
I tossed it into the wash. I diluted the fix to 1% and fixed for several more
minutes without seeing a change (the fixing effect was probably doing nothing).
 I placed the prints in the wash and went on to something else in the house.
About 5 hours later I remembered that I still had prints in the wash. When I
pulle dthem out they were primarily white, which was a new one.

I did a quick 30 minute exposure yesterday under my lights so that I would have
something to show a group of people, and indeed the colors were not nearly as
intense as the others I had created (1-6 hour exposures in the sun). I did not
fix the print so I am going to see what happens if I tone then fix it.

Fortunately, I was given a box of old paper that will offer me the chance to
try that out.

Cheers -

george

--- "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> My student wrote Burchfield and he was very accessible in answering her
> questions, and seems a very nice man. More info he shared with her is this:
>
> He says some of the images are enhanced a bit digitally **only** to print
> properly for the book, but color was not changed.
>
> The originals are scanned on a high end flatbed scanner and then he makes
> edition prints on Fuji Crystal Archive/light jet prints.
>
> He said out of date paper comes out differently than the same paper fresh.
> No paper was better than another, as they are all unique. And his fave
> paper was made by PAL, long outdated (25 yr) and he has found nothing like
> it.
>
> He uses regular Kodak fix without hardener and says all images will bleach
> in the fix, but it'll have minimal effect as long as the image is strong to
> begin with.
>
> He suggests exposure times of 5 or more hours and he even has done a 94 DAY
> one!
>
> My student is having troubles getting anything more than a flat image yet,
> and I thought it might be nice to scan it before fixing, as Darryl did, and
> do that print digitally, as well as having a fixed original of a different
> color.
>
> I have been having students in Experimental Class this week develop a print
> fully, stop bath it, and then bring it out into the light (what I call in
> the workbook "Painting With Light") and watch it change colors. With that
> process, I have observed some incredible deep reds, which, of course,
> disappear to dark ambers and such in the fix. However, again, they would
> make for good scans and prints digitally. Even the fixed amber color is
> intriguing. I only mention this as another chemical variable to dry.
> Chris
>
>
>

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