So I started digging through resources, start looking through books. I'm like, oh, hm, never seen that before, so in 15 years of doing this, I was like, ooh, boy. I go down, over half the prints look that way. They weren't as enamored with the title as I was at the review either. I went through all of the washes, I put it on the drying rack three days before I have to go to a portfolio review of my work called, Metal on Metal. So, basically what's happened is the platinum has come in, it's been absorbed, everything looked great. So, I'm printing along, and then all of a sudden you can start to see this little bubble appear, if I can get the angle on that. This problem, and I wanted to make sure people got a look at. The contrast range is okay, so all I'm gonna do then, coat another piece of paper, put the same negative down, and move forward with that. So luckily, when that happens, there's nothing wrong with the negative. I had got the coating, I even got the little wisp that I kind of like on the edge, and then I saw in the middle, I was like, ew, the chemistry looks a little thin in that one spot, and I thought, aw, I'll just, I'll just make one little, and then it showed up, and I was like, ew, so then I can go into Photoshop, scan it, clone it, fix it, and I was like, well, that kind of defeats the purpose of making a good platinum print is to take it back to the Photoshop to fix the problem. This is another example of a brushing technique problem. We looked at this one, but you can see I have a V diagonal here, and you can see that not only that, it doesn't even extend all the way out of the frame. Okay, some other things you can, and I wanted to quickly talk about with some prints. Even with a densitometer, it's only gonna get you in the ballpark. There's not a cheat shortcut around that. You can measure the density with a densitometer and start to be like, "Oh, based on what I know "of other densities and negatives, "it's probably about this long in exposure," but with the traditional negative, to get the time, you're gonna need to do a test strip. So while I also had the issue of the A and B contrast I have to sort out if I'm going the traditional method, I also have to do a test trip for time for this negative to figure out how long.
I've tested that, but with this negative, I don't necessarily know how long it's gonna need under there, 'cause I've built up the density of the traditional negative at a different rate. The digital negative, I know, it's six and 1/2 minutes. So the negative, though, was a pretty dense negative, and so one of the things, too, when we're dealing with printing alternative processing off a traditional negative. So, I was standing out in the forest for about two and 1/2 hours doing this, and then I played Metranome for awhile, and then I explained to people what a large format camera was when they walked by. The exposure in camera to make the negative took about two and 1/2 hours. It's a nurse log that the trees grew off of. Now this image in terms of exposure, this was taken over in the Hoh Rainforest. Platinum/Palladium Troubleshooting and Resources
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