Digging deep in the freezer today, I found a box of Polymax Fine Art double weight that I completely forgot about. I have never used this paper, any thoughts or suggestions before I crack it open?
Digging deep in the freezer today, I found a box of Polymax Fine Art double weight that I completely forgot about. I have never used this paper, any thoughts or suggestions before I crack it open?
Enjoy it! ???
I just haven't quite found another VC paper that works as well.
Thanks, I don't recall a thing about why I bought this box.Originally Posted by Alex Hawley
Enjoy it! ???
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Best for skin tones? Landscapes? Any particular characteristics?
I only seem to have one box of 100 sheets to play with.
I found a box of Azo in there too, but I do know what to do with that!
Allen, send them both to me for testing! Especially the Azo! Enjoy!Thanks, I don't recall a thing about why I bought this box.
Best for skin tones? Landscapes? Any particular characteristics?
I only seem to have one box of 100 sheets to play with.
I found a box of Azo in there too, but I do know what to do with that!
Jim
It's a good thing it's frozen as it's quite likely if it were more than a year out of date it would be fogged. It's wonderful paper, but has poor shelf life compared to others. Check the box and see where it was made - US, Canada or Brazil. The US and Canadian stuff tones differently (at least in my experience). I never liked the Brazilian stuff as much, but it's still fine paper.
Polymax requires extended washing and hypo-clearing before toning, or it will develop mottling. Otherwise it is a pretty good paper.
More "feminine" in feeling than other papers like, f'rinstance, Galerie or the beloved-but-gone-Forte Elegance. Portraits of women, soft still lifes, but not "macho" rocks and stuff.
What grade Azo? Expiration date?
Bruce Barlow
author of "Finely Focused" and "Exercises in Photographic Composition"
www.brucewbarlow.com
I used quite a bit of that paper in it's time and never experienced any mottling. Water quality perhaps.
Don Bryant
That's odd, the only paper John Sexton used for his photographs of rocks and other macho stuff was Polymax Fine Art. He made a few o.k. prints with it.
Brian Ellis
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticize them you'll be
a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
'More "feminine" in feeling than other papers'
Oh please...this is one of the most absurd things I have ever read on this forum. I used this paper for a while and there is nothing about it that resonated as 'feminine"...except that if it was not properly fixed in time it developed a 'pink cast'...sheesh
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