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Registered: October 2009 Posts: 53
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alexmuir
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Registered: January 2010 Location: Glasgow, Scotland. Posts: 2,668
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Thu, 17, December, 2015 10:38pm
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This is a nice shot, with lots of detail and interesting textures. I'm interested in your experience of 4x5 contact printing. I bought a 4x5 camera in the summer and have been doing contacts because I don't have a 4x5 enlarger. I haven't been too impressed with my own efforts so far, although a couple I was able to enlarge to 8x10 looked better. I suspect that negatives need to be developed a particular way for optimum contact prints. Your exposure and processing seems to have been spot on for this image.
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vincent
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Registered: December 2008 Location: Co. Kildare Ireland Posts: 876
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Fri, 18, December, 2015 12:04pm
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Excellent Gerry, you have a lovely quality in your print with detail throughout. I like how the pathway to the well is echoed by the steps over the wall and the building behind with the cross on the back wall.
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chisel
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Registered: December 2011 Posts: 261
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Sun, 20, December, 2015 2:54pm
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The contact print is lovely - it has such detail in it - looking forward to seeing more of them Gerry. I haven't done any contacts, only from pinhole negs, but Alex may well be on to something. I'm impressed with how you got such detail in the sky - the dodging and burning in contact prints is bloody hard to do I think.
Looking forward to seeing some more!
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Registered: October 2009 Posts: 53
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Sun, 20, December, 2015 4:50pm
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Thanks all for the comments and good feedback.
Alex, I'm in the same position as yourself, and also bought a 5X4 earlier in the year.
There was nothing special about the developing of the neg; Rodinal 1+50 for 15 minutes. However on checking my notes I see that it is a Foma 100 neg, not FP4 as indicated above, so I may have processed it incorrectly!
There is some minor dodging in the darker parts of the print (grade 3), and the sky was burnt in on a grade 0 for about .75 of a stop.
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alexmuir
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Registered: January 2010 Location: Glasgow, Scotland. Posts: 2,668
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Sun, 20, December, 2015 6:13pm
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Thanks for the technical details, Gerry. I haven't really tried much dodging, or burning of my contacts. I need to get organised and practice more. The idea of producing good quality prints in 4x5 really appeals to me. The weather at the moment has prevented me getting the camera out much, but perhaps there will be some opportunity over the holiday period.
Alex.
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