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Originally Posted by MartyNL
Great result, Martin.
Just out of curiosity, could intensification have been avoided at the shooting and processing stages or was it unavoidable?
Have you noticed any negative artefacts as a result of intensification, better or worse than contrast expansion via development?
Thanks for sharing your negative intensification process procedure, btw.
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Hi Martyn
I used N+1 development on the Negatives originally to try and give a more contrasty negative with which to print, expecting that I would be able to achieve the look I wanted within the normal paper grades.
However, when I came to print I realised I would have needed N+2 ~ N+3 development to achieve the look I was after.
But, I didn't realise that at the time.
If I ever do anything like this again, I will shoot multiple rolls so I can do N+1, N+2 and N+3 development.
As far as I can tell selenium intensification offers nothing that N+2/N+3 development would not be able to achieve - but is a useful way to rescue/improve an existing negative.
Incidentally, I have never had to use Grade5 for any print before - except out of curiosity - just to see what it would look like.
As the saying goes - you live and (hopefully) learn.
Martin