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Ian Leake 18th August 2009 07:43 PM

Making Enlarged Negatives
 
Is there anyone out there who can teach me to make good enlarged negatives from roll film or sheet film? I would be very happy to reciprocate with some platinum printing teaching. I'm London based but can travel reasonable distances. Thanks in advance. Ian.

CarlRadford 19th August 2009 10:33 AM

Devils Advocate...
 
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Originally Posted by Ian Leake (Post 15008)
Is there anyone out there who can teach me to make good enlarged negatives from roll film or sheet film? I would be very happy to reciprocate with some platinum printing teaching. I'm London based but can travel reasonable distances. Thanks in advance. Ian.

Is there a reason to use film as opposed to making digital negs?

Dave miller 19th August 2009 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by CarlRadford (Post 15038)
Is there a reason to use film as opposed to making digital negs?

On this forum there is! ;)

Ian Leake 19th August 2009 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by CarlRadford (Post 15038)
Is there a reason to use film as opposed to making digital negs?

There are two reasons, Carl. The first is personal. While I don't have anything against digital negatives (and I use them myself from time to time), I want to be able to do this with an entirely personal process where I haven't delegated things to unknown software engineers and machines. This is the important reason.

The second reason is that in my experience, if you know what to look for, it's usually possible to tell the difference between a print from a digital negative and one made with a film negative. I don't want to make a class of prints which could be viewed as inferior to my large format prints.

Andrew Bartram 20th August 2009 07:40 AM

I would love to accompany you on such a "teach in" Ian. I am planning some Salt Printing experiments with my 6X6 negs but would like to have some larger ones.

I'm Huntingdon way by the way

Andrew B

SteveA 20th August 2009 08:36 AM

Ian and Andrew, I am experimenting with the 'Negatives by Reversal' technique outlined on the UnblinkingEye website. And would be happy to keep you updated with my progress, if that would be of any help.

Cheers
Steve

Tom Kershaw 20th August 2009 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by sallan (Post 15073)
Ian and Andrew, I am experimenting with the 'Negatives by Reversal' technique outlined on the UnblinkingEye website. And would be happy to keep you updated with my progress, if that would be of any help.

Cheers
Steve

Using the sulfuric acid & potassium dichromate reversal bleach?

Tom

SteveA 20th August 2009 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Tom Kershaw (Post 15083)
Using the sulfuric acid & potassium dichromate reversal bleach?

Tom

Yes. I am actually using sodium bisulphate in place of sulphuric acid itself, and it seems to be pretty successful.

I am in the playing around stage at the moment, but the reason I decided to go with the reversal technique is the apparent easier control of contrast in the finished negative.

Steve

Dave miller 20th August 2009 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by sallan (Post 15087)
Yes. I am actually using sodium bisulphate in place of sulphuric acid itself, and it seems to be pretty successful.

I am in the playing around stage at the moment, but the reason I decided to go with the reversal technique is the apparent easier control of contrast in the finished negative.

Steve

This sounds very exciting, please keep us informed of progress.

Tom Kershaw 31st March 2010 03:00 PM

Any updates on the enlarged negative work?

Tom


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