[Marizu]

My understanding of ICE is that it works by shining IR light through a negative.

It won’t work for a dag.

This doesn’t work for B&W film, either, as it is not transparent to IR. It only works on colour negs.

Any automated tools that I have seen seem to get rid of fine detail. I don’t even use ICE on color neg.

I use Photoshop and the ‘back to the future’ history brush technique to remove dust from film and wet plates.

There is a tutorial for it on eddietapp.com

http://www.eddietapp.com/PDFs/BTF%20scan7.pdf

Because his tutorial is for a slide, I think that the blend mode of lighten will be suitable for a dag.

This is time consuming but I think that it gives the best possible results. It is a lot quicker using a pen than a mouse.

I found a really good youtube video on this but I can’t get on to youtube at the moment.

[Marizu]

That’s interesting.

I had assumed that there would be more silver in my washed off developer as that is the tray that is more likely to get stained with what I thought was silver.

I use KCN fixer too but I’m somewhat wary about letting off any hydrogen CN whilst plating.

As a complete (non-yet-starting) beginner to dags and to plating, I appreciate that Gregory’s advise is very sound but I am also curious as to what kind of plating kit I would need to use.

Do you have a link to a website so that I can get some kind of idea?

When I look at how much silver nitrate costs me these days, I want to get the most out of it (especially as I’m thinking of making some ULF plates).

Thank you.

[Marizu]

Thank you. Your posts are always very informative.

[Marizu]

Hi everyone.

I’m Marizu from Manchester in England, UK.

I work in technology but have spent a lot of time during the last couple of years investigating issues of identity through the medium of photography.

I haven’t got a web presence yet but I do have a couple of bodies of work (in perpetual progress) that I could put up there.

Although I consider myself process agnostic, I do enjoy working with large format cameras due to the meditative nature of the experience. The flexibility afforded by them has allowed me, many thanks to Carl Radford, to explore wet plate with some degree of success.

I have been attempting to ignore the lure of the Daguerreotype for a long while but have now decided that I need to make at least one Becquerel Dag during the course of my life.

I don’t know when I’ll get round to it but I’m certain that I will try at some point.

Regards,

Marizu

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