Re: Bleaching for a lith effect.

[Graham <cmm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As always, to each his own.  

I tried the bleach/selenium redevelop/tone technique after I re-read a
portion of Dr. Rudman's Lith printing book.  I was in the process of
finishing off some "normal" b&w prints and tried a bit of an experiment,
nothing ventured nothing gained.  I liked the effect well enough that I 
am going to spend some time experimenting with some of the combinations
and permutations including different papers.

The results were a pleasant suprise, I wouldn't have tried this combination
of things unless I had heard about it somewhere else.

Tim's reply was quite on the mark.


cheers, Graham



At 11:42 PM 12/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
> Don Bryant wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure why you guys are going through all of these gyrations of
>> bleaching with feri on Ilford warm tone paper.   [ snippage occurs ]
>> Maybe I'm missing something because of the limitations of the
>> computer image but I just don't thing your are gaining anything with the
>> bleach. 
>
>	Must be monitors, I suppose. Seems that these techniques are
>	quite popular and there must be some reason. Personally, they 
>	just look like really washed out bad b&w prints to me. May well
>	be an entirely different thing in reality, though.
>
>
>        ---------------------------------------------------------
>        Bill D. Casselberry ; Photography on the Oregon Coast
>

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      Graham            cmm@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Are the shadows there for me to find, or placed there by my searching mind.
When I reach and find them gone, was I right or was I wrong?

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