RE: palladium drydown and developer (albumen & collodion)

Hello Terry,

Why do you invite everybody to a conference or a workshop in stead of
sharing what you know in this forum. Like this albumen question you again
play your hide and seek game. You mention a problem (yellowing) which you
have overcome but in stead of sharing how you start an argument (in a
lengthy way). Just tell on list what is your solution to a problem in stead
of referring to literature, experience and testing. All people acquire
information the same way as you. So help the inexperienced in stead of
telling them over and over that you have found a better solution. If you
want to help people with their attitude towards learning do it of list. If
you want to contribute with wisdom do it straight forward without hesitation
and without the expectancy of benefit. If you feel that you have achieved it
to be a master or a teacher behave like one.

Regards,

Witho

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Van: TERRYAKING@aol.com [mailto:TERRYAKING@aol.com]
Verzonden: zaterdag 22 juli 2006 8:33
Aan: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Onderwerp: Re: palladium drydown and developer (albumen & collodion)

In a message dated 21/07/2006 23:47:12 GMT Daylight Time,
sanking@clemson.edu writes:

On the other hand, for my work gelatin sizing is simpler, less expensive,
less trouble, and gives results at least as good, so that is what I use.

Sandy

I have been using gelatine for sizing for gum prints, albumen platinum, salt
prints and cyanotypes and kallitypes and for making carbon prints for for
thirty years. In fact I bought 25 kilos of the last of Croda Colloids
manufacture of 160 Bloom deionised ossein, photographic gelatine, to make
sure that I had a good supply of the good stuff for my students, my friends
and myself.

So we agree that gelatine is good.

Gelatine is less expensive and it is less trouble but you are in no position
to say that the results are just as good as collodion or albumen sizing for
platinum printing as you have never done it or seen it done..So don't knock
it.

I can assure you that an albumen sized platinum print gives a good result
that offers a difference that justifies the extra trouble and expense and
that a collodion/platinum print offers such an improvement that it is in a
completely different class. I am not going to repeat the list of its
advantages here. I suggest that you come to the conferences in Oxford,
Rochester, Pittsburgh (where there will be workshops), and perhaps Santa Fe
and to exhibitions in Teddington and Croydon where you can see and hold the
things so that you are in a position to judge for yourself.

We also seem to be agreed that yellowing can occur in albumenised paper when
no silver is pesent, and in this case it is a real problem, even though you
may not have experienced it.

Terry
Received on 07/23/06-12:02:23 AM Z