Annie M.
25-Aug-2008, 08:40
Fogged Paper
The ocean is so misted in this morning the wave lines are invisible and shore fog is so thick you could bump your head on it so I am thinking about fog.
I have literally reams of once glorious papers stacked neatly in their little yellow cardboard coffins... I have tried benzotriazol in various dilutions and only had mediocre results. My understanding from this article...
http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/AntiqueP/antiquep.html
is that there are other possibilities with high contrast developers and bleaching back. Now the Blinking Eye article gives some general formulas that may prove helpful but does not deal with many of the recently discontinued papers.
Most of the information I have found on fogging is coincidentally foggy. Certainly there must be someone who has done some more specific testing than just dumping a tablespoon of benzo in the developer or doing a slosh in the farmers with fingers crossed. . I am hoping that others will share their specific formulas used successfully with specific papers. I think this could be an asset to the community as many of our favorite papers are disappearing into the fog.
I am planing to do some testing of Polymax Fine Art soon with some high contrast developers as suggested by the Blinking Eye and will post the results here for those that wish to explore their feminine side... any assistance with formulas or just general mojo will be sincerely appreciated.
cheers... annie
The ocean is so misted in this morning the wave lines are invisible and shore fog is so thick you could bump your head on it so I am thinking about fog.
I have literally reams of once glorious papers stacked neatly in their little yellow cardboard coffins... I have tried benzotriazol in various dilutions and only had mediocre results. My understanding from this article...
http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/AntiqueP/antiquep.html
is that there are other possibilities with high contrast developers and bleaching back. Now the Blinking Eye article gives some general formulas that may prove helpful but does not deal with many of the recently discontinued papers.
Most of the information I have found on fogging is coincidentally foggy. Certainly there must be someone who has done some more specific testing than just dumping a tablespoon of benzo in the developer or doing a slosh in the farmers with fingers crossed. . I am hoping that others will share their specific formulas used successfully with specific papers. I think this could be an asset to the community as many of our favorite papers are disappearing into the fog.
I am planing to do some testing of Polymax Fine Art soon with some high contrast developers as suggested by the Blinking Eye and will post the results here for those that wish to explore their feminine side... any assistance with formulas or just general mojo will be sincerely appreciated.
cheers... annie