Re: Brush development of palladium prints. RE: Potassium Oxalate developer for Platinum printing

From: etienne garbaux <photographeur_at_nerdshack.com>
Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 09:58:06 -0400
Message-id: <p05210600c082593708b6@[192.168.1.100]>

Mark wrote:

> I have used negatives up to log 2.9 without "blocking out at one end of
>the scale and reversal at the other"

In my workflow, 2.9 is near the lowest DR for a full-scale print, and I
usually use negatives with a DR over 3.0. This is with the classic Pt
formula, no Pd, no contrast agents (although I often use a weak gelatin
"solution" to make the sensitizer -- but I have not found that this affects
the exposure scale). With negatives having a DR of 2.2, I cannot even
begin to get the full range of tones in a print -- great for "high key"
work, but useless for normal prints. Again, with my workflow.

Best regards,

etienne
Received on 05/06/06-08:06:12 AM Z

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : 06/23/06-10:10:53 AM Z CST