Re: Lumen prints gallery

Thanks Marek. Is it the toner that brings out the colours, or does it just
replace any unexposed silver? Hard to believe there is any unexposed silver
after two hours in the sun. I'm currently using some old Ilford Plastica
circa 1966, I have some new MG too I think I'll try that next. So far I only
get small specks of red in the odd region of the flora (some old birthday
flowers soon to be tossed). My paper turns grey-blue and I do get a very
subtle silhouette. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold toner on hand at the
moment. I tried the (KRS) selenium toner at 1:20 and did not see much of a
change, maybe that's because as Judy mentioned it also contains a fix. How
critical is the dilution of the fix in this process? I'm using working
strenth Rapid Fix diluted with water about 1:5.

~m
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marek Matusz" <marekmatusz@hotmail.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 3:32 PM
Subject: 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 16:16:47 2005