Monday, January 20, 2025

Drydown of Pt-Pd Prints?

Earlier this week when I printed some higher contrast Platinum prints, I did not think there was much change in the print from wet to dry. Yesterday’s work of more softer prints went too dark after drying down. 

The image I preferred wet is now too dark. Even the print I thought was to light wet is a bit to dark dry. The one gross looking chemically high contrast bleached out print when wet looks bad but much better dry.

I think I need to slow down in the many new prints thing and instead print slower, wash and then dry individual Pt-Pd prints to see exactly what I got before proceeding

Note* I have a LONG way to go before becoming a MASTER PLATINUM PRINTER!! :) 

I thought this print was too light wet but it looks much better dry, maybe too dark still in real life viewing.
Left is the wet, gross, bleached out print, almost usable when dry,  the right is the one I liked wet,  now too dark dry.