Re: palladium drydown-- defining terms

Katherine,

It depends on which end of the scale you are talking about. The highlights dry
down darker than when they are wet, and the shadows lose reflective density as
they dry.

Clay

Quoting Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>:

> On Jul 20, 2006, at 2:13 PM, Ryuji Suzuki wrote:
> > There is no question of what the dry down is phenomenologically. It's
> > the increase of optical density once the material dries.
>
>
>
> On Jul 21, 2006, at 4:11 AM, BOB KISS wrote:
> > I mentioned in a post about 1 1/2 to two years ago that I found
> > that prints
> > from digital negatives had a curious drying phenomenon that prints
> > from
> > camera original negs did not. In prints from digital negs, the
> > shadows lost
> > density but so did the highlights...they both got lighter!!! In
> > prints from
> > camera original negs the dry down was more standard, i.e. the
> > highlights got
> > darker and the shadows lighter.
>
> Sorry, I'm confused... not being a platinum printer I don't know
> the answer to this question from experience, and reading the
> discussion isn't helping, given the seemingly opposite descriptions
> sampled above: does dry-down in pt/pd usually result in increased
> DMax, or decreased DMax, compared to the wet print? Thanks,
> Katharine
>

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