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nielsm posted:I received a few sheets of Ilford RC Warmtone along with the Yashica MAT 124G I purchased recently, and just made my first print on it. The effect is certainly subtle, I actually have to compare it directly to a print on regular paper to notice the difference. Selenium toning looks fantastic with warmtone paper. You'll (probably) end up with cool shadows and warm highlights, gives a really lovely extra bit of depth to the image.
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| # ¿ Jul 26, 2011 03:17 |
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Prathm posted:Baryt-paper and Fiber-paper is the same thing right? No. Baryta is weird, it's a thin barium clay surface but it looks and feels like something halfway between plastic and ceramic. edit: VVV Hrm. never post on two hours of sleep, I was probably thinking of Yupo instead for whatever dumb reason. Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at Jul 27, 2011 around 07:06 |
| # ¿ Jul 27, 2011 01:57 |
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Big printing is pretty damned fun. I played around with some forty-year-old 16x20 kodabromide recently, and despite it being a deep gray at the brightest, it's got me wanting to print a lot larger now.
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| # ¿ Sep 16, 2011 05:52 |
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nielsm posted:How do you develop huge prints like that? A bucket of developer and a painting brush? I work at my old college and the darkroom there has a bunch of 16x20 trays. I've got a 6x9 enlarger in my apartment hallway though, and since I'm cheap, I've been using painters trays to develop stuff up to 11x14 in my bathtub.
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| # ¿ Sep 16, 2011 22:19 |
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JaundiceDave posted:Just started printing using 16x20 Ilford Warmtone Semi-matt. It's such a gorgeous paper, but at $4.20 a sheet it'd better be. Selenium toning with warmtone paper = 
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2011 06:15 |
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The difference is kinda subtle, but after holding an untoned print of Ilford MGIV up to a toned copy of the same print, I don't think I can ever go back. The cold, deep black tones of the toned print are nicer than the sorta greenish-yellow black tones on the untoned Ilford.
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| # ¿ Oct 31, 2011 20:04 |
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Demon_Corsair posted:Clearly I should have read into this more. Definitely going to look into adding a toning day into the mix at some point. lford's fiber paper in a 1:7 bath of selenium toner for a few minutes gives a nice inky blackness and cools the whole image down. Toning a warmtone fiber paper is even neater, shadows go cold while the highlights stay warm, gives a good sense of depth to it. I've got a big jug of ancient Kodak Polytoner and some sepia and gold toners that I still need to experiment with, more stuff salvaged from a closing photo store.... I'll post the results sometime.
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| # ¿ Nov 4, 2011 08:14 |
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JaundiceDave posted:so what do you like to listen to in the darkroom. i'm a fan of classical stuff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFVGwGQcB0 it kind of goes with the quiet zen feeling. If I'm in a hurry, grouchy Norwegian metal.  Or if I'm trying to relax, electronica or classical. Fun time back in the college darkroom... I set up the wetlab at sunset, put a CD on loop, and then just completely lost track of time. Came out after sunrise with a stack of thirty or so prints and a bloody nose, which I apparently hadn't noticed for awhile. whoops Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at Nov 6, 2011 around 00:16 |
| # ¿ Nov 6, 2011 00:13 |
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My old college used a rack full of window screens for drying prints. Some jerks didn't wash their prints properly (or at all?) and got fixer all over the drying screens one night, which ended up burning a yellow-brown grid onto a bunch of my prints that had been facing down. 
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| # ¿ Dec 1, 2011 16:24 |
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Having curl problems? I feel bad for you son I've found two pretty solid methods to fix curly fiber prints. One is to toss them into these big hot presses that the college darkroom used for dry-matting prints. Throw some dry fiber prints into that thing between a couple sheets of matte board for protection, then use the press to iron them flat for a few minutes until they're nice and warm. As a bonus, dry-mount presses look kinda adorable.   Another thing I've done at home is to just put a stack of fiber prints between some large sheets of cheap matte board, then set a heavy box or a stack of books on top of it and leave 'em there for awhile.
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| # ¿ Jan 19, 2012 00:06 |
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| # ¿ May 19, 2013 12:24 |
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I always washed the gently caress out of my prints. A good time: putting them in the communal drying rack and then finding them all covered in grid-shaped fixer burns the next day. Don't be that jerk.
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| # ¿ Mar 15, 2012 00:55 |
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