[pure-silver] Re: NOW: Exposing paper was Re: POPwithpapernegs?
- From: Ryuji Suzuki <rs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:48:01 -0500 (EST)
From: "Dave Valvo" <dvalvo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: NOW: Exposing paper was Re: POPwithpapernegs?
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:31:27 -0800
> Optical brighteners have been known to migrate unless they are mordanted.
> Mordantly is very difficult and many paper manufacturers can't do it
> effectively. Brighteners can end up sticking their ugly heads above the
> Dmax in a print...thus lowering Dmax a little.......very little.
Alternatively - for now I forget about brightener and baryta sizing
for that matter and coat emulsions on cotton rug paper. With rather
low coating weight (low Dmax) the prints look very old. As I coat at
normal coating weight (normal Dmax for that type of surface) I get
much more crisper pictures of all delicate details and punchy shadows
but the print loses that old taste.
Actually some of my negatives that don't look good on commercial
papers look very nice on this dingy paper. I tear the paper by hand
when making test strips. Those test strips with hand teared edges seem
to fool people and I can recycle some of the better discards as
greeting cards. (and people like those better than cards made from
commercial baryta prints with nicely cut edges.)
--
Ryuji Suzuki
"Keep a good head and always carry a light camera."
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