From: Sandy King (sanking@clemson.edu)
Date: 03/27/02-06:29:18 PM Z
Shannon,
If the prints were developed, cleared and fixed carrying them through
sunlight should not cause fogging. Once the ferrous iron has been
removed and the silver nitrate fixed there should not be anything
light sensitive left in the paper. Same goes for drying them on the
porch.
It sounds like you may not have cleared the prints enough by the
remark that it looks like "staining from the dark areas bleeding into
the print."
However, there is so much left unsaid about your working procedures
that I would need to know to provide more useful information to you.
About the EDTA, what size were the prints you cleared. 7 prints of
8X10 size or smaller should not exhaust a liter of EDTA.
Sandy King
>I just made my first kallitype prints today, and I have a few
>questions. There seems to be some fogging in the highlights. I am
>wondering if that's because I transferred them wet through sunlight
>to their washing place. That is, I work in the garage but wash
>prints in the bathroom tub, so I carried the prints wet from the
>garage, after fixing, to the tub, and they got sunlight on them
>then. Also I dried them in a fairly light area on a porch. Could
>either of those things cause fogging? The fogging shows up most on
>the step tablet beside the image, in the higher values, and in the
>sky on one of the prints. It also looks a bit like staining from
>the dark areas bleeding into the print; hard to tell which. I dried
>them on screens that were slightly elevated at one end.
>
>I am thinking that I should (1) find a way to wash them in the
>garage or get a plastic black box to transfer them in from garage to
>house and (2) dry them in the dark, maybe on a clothesline in the
>garage?
>
>Also: how long can you keep an EDTA clearing bath? I cleared seven
>prints in one liter of solution. Can I pour that in a bottle and
>reuse it?
>
>--shannon
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