I've had a bottle of Liquid Light laying around for a while now and just got around to finally trying it out tonight. Was excited about it, but everything ended up mucky. Like grey highlights and very little depth to it.
So, sure enough I stuck an unexposed paper in the developer and it came out grey... so it seems the emulsion is fogged somehow. Anyone used this successfully (Liquid Light or another brand maybe)? It was about two months past expiration, but was in the fridge since I got it, so I would have thought it still ok. When heating, how hot is too hot? I got some hot water from the tap and let it sit in there until it was liquid. Shouldn't have been too hot, but I think I did read somewhere that high temps and successive heating can cause it to fog. Also, what about safe lights? I used a red one and figured it'd be ok, but perhaps not?
Anyway, I guess I'll give it one more try to make sure it's not something silly I did rather than the stuff having gone off on me. I'm a bit bummed because in my excitement I coated about ten pieces of watercolor paper (not cheap), which will all have to go now.
On a side note: I'd really like to be able to mix my own emulsions and self-coat, but I have yet to find much information on that. Anyone got any links, or a recipe they could point me to?
Thanks,
Jason