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Sirius Glass

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New Zealand has more spectacular landscapes that all most any where on the planet Earth.
 

AndrewBurns

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Jul 12, 2019
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Auckland, New Zealand
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35mm
I had a go at coating one of my prints with Dorland's wax medium, as a way of protecting the surface for framing without glass. I quite like the results, gives a slight sheen to the print which makes it feel higher quality in person.

Here's two of the same print (on two different papers, which is why there's a significant colour difference between them). Coated on the right, plain on the left.





Here's the coated print framed without glass, my phone camera butchered the colours but you get the idea. I really like how it turned out, museum glass might give a similar result but compared to normal glass the lack of reflections and better contrast is really noticeable.

 

KYsailor

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Oct 29, 2021
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Louisville, KY
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Andrew, really nice - even with Fluid HP paper and tannic acid I can't get mine to compare ( they get that bit of purplish/pink in the highlights - the shadows do get nice and black) I will just have to go get some coffee and try it as well. Been doing some gum bichromate, always a challenge for me - here are two from the same shot that came out pretty different - too much scarlet pyrrol in that orangish one and my base cyano was a bit intense on the other - but kind of interesting......I guess that's the fun of gum printing. - Dave




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Patrick Robert James

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Jul 31, 2012
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35mm RF
I'm happy to say that after my printer being down for almost a year, I finally got around to fixing the problems. Took a bit of surgery but it is back kicking. I am looking forward to making some prints again! Now I just have to find something worth printing. That is always the hard part...
 
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