Originally Posted by
Drew Wiley
1:1 is awfully strong. Doing 1:3 will give you better control due to longer time. Premature "pull processing" works poorly with most current silver papers, especially VC. Muddy results. It's not a good way to alter final tone. You also might want to try a cooling water jacket tray around the outside of the developer tray per se. Either a cold water drip line into that, or else a little recirculating aquarium pump and a blue ice pack should allow you to sustain a more realistic temp. Hydroquinone is one of the ingredients of 130, and image color can be affected when it's too far off standard temp one direction or the other. Exactly how depends on the specific paper and how you tone it afterwards. But it is noteworthy.
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