[pure-silver] Re: spotting warm tone paper


----- Original Message ----- From: "Shannon Stoney" <sstoney@xxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 5:17 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] spotting warm tone paper


Thanks for all the advice about re-using DDX.

Now for my other question: I am switching to Forte Warm tone paper since Agfa is no more. But today I couldn't find any spot-tone for warm tone paper. The camera store people said that spot tone is also gone. They had Marshall's spotting dye but it was neutral black. I have an old bottle of neutral black made by spot tone so I didn't buy it.

Maybe it will work to use neutral black to spot warm tone prints. I haven't tried it yet. Has anyone else?

A related question: the camera store has some felt tip pens for spotting. These do come in warm tone. Has anybody tried them?

--shannon

Marshall still makes full sets of retouching dyes for B&W. They are distributed by BKA at:
http://www.bkaphoto.com/
The colors are: blue/black, selenium brown, neutral black, sepia tone, brown tone, olive tone.
I've not used Marshall's dyes, only SpoTone but they are probably similar. For some papers one must mix the colors. The small bottles will last forever, I still have SpoTone that is 15 years old.
I use a very fine brush of the best quality and load it almost dry.
One can also use pencil on some papers. For neural tone paper Wolf's Carbon pencils are excellent. The marks are matt rather than shiny as are conventional pencils. Some watercolor pencils are also useful.
Where negatives have pin holes or other clear spots it best to spot the negative. This results in white spots on the print. These can be retouched with the dyes. Dark spots must be bleached off. The old techniques of "etching" the print surface with a blade are really suitable only for originals for reproduction, not display prints. No matter how carefully done the result is always visible.
Edwal No Scratch works pretty well. So does Kerosine, if you can find it, in glass sandwich negative holders as a sort of liquid gate.
Like Ryuji, I find spotting prints relaxing. It is a sort of Zen thing where you can meditate while doing something. BTW, if you have reached a certain age one of those magnifiers that clips to eye glasses is helpful.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx






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