I an grateful that viewers like us don't have to pay thousands on a 3 day workshop in Japan and have an interpreter help us with discourse to discover how to effectively develop, handle, expose and dry delicate paper in 9 minutes and I believe that is the point of his generous vid...not the end product...thank you Mr. Nishimaru for sharing a look at your process.
Very interesting process, thank you. I am experimenting with chryotype at the moment but it is interesting to know what and how others are printing, I am very interested in types of paper used for hand printing, this looks like a beautiful paper.
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing your gifts. Question about your four baths? The first has ammonium citrate developer (not Potassium Oxalate?). Are you then going to water or do you use phosphoric acid and/or sodium sulfite? Also, could you please show us the final, framed print? Gorgeous!
Dear Mr. Nishimaru, Congratulations to this beautifully performed, clean and condensed process I enjoyed watching. Would you please be so kind and tell me the type or manufacturer of your UV Exposure unit. It seems very versatile, standing upright, with the possibility to place your negative above the paper. Thank you very much.
This was made by bending bamboo strips with heat. Thin bamboo strips flex, so now we use boards made of hinoki cypress, which is resistant to decay. For the larger sizes, the thin boards are used as they are, with no work done to them. For the smaller sizes, holes were drilled at both ends and bamboo strips were inserted to make handles. instagram.com/p/CSEd2RdBJQO/
Great video! Thank you very much for sharing this printing technic, I am really interested in Washi papers for alternate printing processes, but unluckly here in Italy I have difficult to find them. I have few question for you: first, why are you using a felt mat under the paper? And second, do you know if the Tosa washi platinum pper may be suitable also with silver emulsion or Kallitype (or if you know more washi paper which are good for these technics)?
First of all, thank you so much for sharing your technique - beautiful work and very inspiring. There are, however, a couple of points I'm confused about: 1. you use a 3-inch Kobayashi brush, coat the paper with 4 slightly overlapping strokes, which should cover a width of about 10-11 inches, and yet, you say the negative is an 8 x 10"... - does the brush shrink that much when wet? (I'm wondering whether to get the 3 or 4 inch brush for a 10x12" negative) 2. I am guessing that your bamboo sticks are about 90 cm long and that you use heat to bend them into triangles - is that correct? Many thanks, Roy
1. Yes, the width of 3 inch brush hair is 2.5 inch when wet. You will be able to coat 10x12 with 3 inch brush, if you can coat without overlapping. 2. I made heat bamboo stick to bend. I use japanese cypress stick for large size printing. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qcdXq9dlcvE.htmlm00s Thank you.
Do you print on behalf of other photographers as it would be next to impossible to get any of those materials needed for that process here in the Philippines? Btw loving print.
I'm not commercial printer. Some printers provide platinum printing service with Japanese tissue. Please contact printers following. www.tamurasyasin.com/ translate.google.co.jp/translate?hl=ja&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tamurasyasin.com%2F ginyudo.com/ translate.google.co.jp/translate?hl=ja&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fginyudo.com%2F
very interesting. I've done some early kallitype trials with kozo and gampi papers. The main problem is that the fibers absorb the emulsion like a sponge. Do you size your paper?
@@MasayukiNishimaru Many thanks for the tip. I tried it and worked quite well. Of 4 Japanese papers I tried, 3 worked quite well, but the 4th oddly enough ended with soft, blurry images. Probably the sensitizer soaking the fibers too much.
Hi. Thanks for showing your work. I would like to know how do you back your print for display? As I know Tosa is super thin. How do you avoid the wrinkles? Your input is much appreciated. Best.
when drying the print, I stick it to a glass or wood boards to dry flat. If the edges peel off in the proses, you can glue the perimeter with diluted PVAc. I usually use paper corners to mount enough flat prints. If the print is larger than 20x24 inches, I hang it with hinge or backing with some layers japanese papers.
@@MasayukiNishimaru when you applied the Pvac glue , does the print get any wrinkles? I tried the photo mounting tissue but doesn't work. As for the 20x24 size. You said just hinge hanging (float mount) with backing some paper. That mean no glue whatsoever to the final support? Thanks again.
I use PVA when drying for avoid to peel off. not for mounting. about baking, I recommend wet mounting like this movie. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ax1gizue4es.html
This paper is sold at Photo Gallery International. www.pgi.ac facebook.com/pgishop/posts/1630749623813182:0 If you want to buy other many washi, try Ozu washi. www.ozuwashi.net/english
Excuse me I don't know much about the platinum process, in fact I just learnt about it today. Does the paper used in this process have to be purpose made for it? Or can you just use any paper that is heavy enough?
***** The tissue he is using is not standard print paper for platinum or palladium prints. A book out there by Ian Parker on Amazon is a good way to start. once you have mastered the art then I would say try your hand at tissue.
You can buy chemicals at PGI that I work for. www.pgi.ac/cart/category/c-357_373.html I recommend this workshop. www.tamurasyasin.com/workshop/platinum-palladium/
Hmm, I defer to your knowledge, Mike, since you're a well-respected expert in the field, but wouldn't this qualify as a Pt/Pd mixed approach? After all, he's using the Na2 (i.e. sodium chloroplatinate) method - or would you still insist on it being a strictly Palladium salt method? I ask because this point has always confused me a little...
I usually use non woven sheet made in Japan. You can buy similar non woven sheet at PEL. www.preservationequipment.com/Catalogue/Conservation-Materials/Other-Materials/Bondina
Thank you Nishimaru Sama my Tosa washi papers are on the way from Tokyo Just one more question what is the wavelength of UV Tube you are using?? how much NM nano meters ??
rakesh nagar do you have the site I could buy some. only place I have found is a place in the UK and nothing in the states. If it means buying from japan that is okay not the first time I have bought material from there
Michael Andersen In USA, Paper Connection International, LLC has Tosa Platinum Paper in stock. Please contact Ms. Lauren Sugita. www.paperconnection.com
