Re: Lumen prints gallery

Michael,
Gold and platinum toning for the silver halide printout processes is done
before fixing. This includes salted paper, albumen, POP papers, etc. I
believe if you try a selenium toner at this point(before fixing) it would
turn the paper uniform black.
Selenium toner can be tried after fixing and washing. You can also try gold
toner at that point. Hoever gold toning toning is not as effective, because
part of the silver is gone, dissolved by the fixer and also typical gold
toners are very sensitive to traces of fixer. Unless the print is washed out
completely free of traces of the fixer you will ruin your gold toner, before
any toning action would take place.
My fixer strength is about 2 to 5%. I do not mix it very carefully to tell
you the exact concentration.
Hope you come up with some excitining prints
Marek, Houston

>From: Michael Koch-Schulte <mkochsch@shaw.ca>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Lumen prints gallery
>Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:08:27 -0500
>
>Marek,I'm going to try some Lumens today can you just verify your workflow:
>
>Expose paper 30 mins to 4 hours under glass.
>
>to process:
>1) Soak in water a few mins.
>2) Tone with Gold or Pt. as required (can I use Selenium?)
>3) Fix (diluted ammonium thiosulfate, how diluted?)
>Wash 20 minutes hang to dry.
>Is that right? Tone then fix? Thx.
>~m
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Marek Matusz" <marekmatusz@hotmail.com>
>To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
>Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 9:57 AM
>Subject: Lumen prints gallery
>
>
> > All,
> >
> > I have added some lumen prints to my gallery on alternative photography
>web
> > site.
> > http://www.alternativephotography.com/artists/marek_matusz.html
> > Thanks to Malin for keeping up the great resource.
> > Marek, Houston
> >
> >
>
Received on Tue Sep 27 14:32:43 2005