Lith Bleach and Redevelopment
After my last couple of lith sessions I set abut trying to achieve a warmer tone on the Oriental Seagull paper. It has a pleasant taupe tone to it but it is decidedly olive in color but it has some light creamy pink highlights. In this latest round I experimented with a lith developer with a heavy addition of sea salt. Meant to create some warmer highlights it seemed to do the opposite and left me with more neutral tones. The salt also seemed to restrain the infectious development which was at once frustrating (waiting for it to happen) and rewarding in the that the range of tones in the shadows was more controlled. Rehalating with Chlorine? Further thought got me down some logical sounding, though possibly wrong, path towards warmer prints. Since I was enamored now with sea salt I thought if I make a rehalation bleach bath I might be able to substitute sea salt (Almost entirely sodium chloride) for potassium bromide. Rehalation bleaches work by oxidizing the developed (reduced) ...