Re: gold print

In a message dated 13/6/06 8:29:28 am, m.bruhat@free.fr writes:

>
> in 1994.
>
> To realize this print, I print as for the platinum with the method ammonium
> ferric oxalat and humidification before lighting UVA with the same formulate
> that the platinum, substitute simply the platinum by the gold.
>
> Only, as the contrast with gold in these conditions is very strong, I have
> realized a film with very weak contrasts.
>
> You can see it on this announcement, before I do separate.
>
> This easy printing system and cheaper becomes interesting with inkjet
> films.
>
> And then that can be a good introduction before pass to the chrysotype of
> Mike Ware...
>
>
> Marc Bruhat
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>

Most of these things are fairly simple; it is just that there is a propensity
for people to make them far too complicated.

I made a print substituting gold salts for the platinum salts around the
same time. In my experience
the result rather lacked in tone. One way of improving the contrast was to
add a drop of platinum or palladium to the mixture. Even then I was not
particularly satisfied with the result as I had produced a gold print with a beautiful
range of tone and colour some time earlier. The chemistry was simple but the
method needed a lot of work to make that simple too. This has now become the
chrysotype rex..

Terry
Received on 06/13/06-02:02:23 AM Z