I spent another day in the lab yesterday making my final prints (or so I thought). I had gotten my extra #3 solution in the mail, set up everything the same as before, coated my paper, and wahhhlaaaa dark purple specs everywhere (which translate into light specs in the prints)!
All of the prints I made yesterday are useless, but I went back through all of the prints I had made in the past couple of weeks and found a usable set. A couple of them need to be retouched, and from my research it looks like I can use diluted india ink or a mixture of lampblack and burnt umber watercolors. God knows I have plenty of prints to practice this on.
I have emailed the tech person at Bostick and Sullivan about what I think might be some sort of chemical contamination in my solution.
The prints are not really perfect, but at this point its too late to get more solution and try to print again. I’d love to try again, but I really don’t want to throw more $ down the drain nor will I have access to the photo lab after Friday.
Guess I’ll just go with it.
Damn.
Yeah…my thoughts exactly.