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Anyone here doing any form of contact printing? I know Carl Radford and Ian Leake does, and I am (thanks to Ian) but is there anyone else. Please share your thoughts, loves, hates, anything really.
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The only reason I brought a 10x8 was to get reasonable size contact prints. My cyanotype cat is an example, not that I have yet made many, but give me time.
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MM, I have been doing some cyanotypes and vandykes for a while. Mostly using digi negs but also LF 5x7 negs using x-ray film. My LF 'camera' is a pain and isn't suited to conditions up here really where the wind blows most of the time - when there isn't a gale blowing.
See these - digi neg [OHP injet film from Staples] cyanotype toned wif tea |
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I make platinum/palladium prints from digital negatives...
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Love it and want to do more when time allows. I have only tried POP so far with using the sun as a light source and found that to be very adictive. Working with film from a 5x4 Crown Graphic which is very portable. In difficult (windy / wet) landscape situations I quite often focus with the on-board rangefinder and use the built-in viewfinder instead of the ground glass screen. Neil.
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I've done a few, though not as many as I hope to in the future. The first was using a 5x7 extension back on the 4x5 Surveyor.
Nice, but not big enough. I then tried a few 6.5x8.5" shots ... ... but had more fun once I'd adapted the 5x7 back for the whole plate camera. Wephota or Fortepan in Rodinal. These are negative scans, but the printing was very straightforward. No funky stuff yet.
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This is really heart warming, so many (well in relative terms at least) practising the act and art of contact printing.
Recently I've been getting to grips with palladium and platinum. But I also enjoy printing on POP (please bring it back Ilford) and still awaiting the arrival of Lodima, a new silver chloride contact paper from Michael A. Smith.
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Like the other aspects of LF, I'm just making a start with contact printing. I have a 5x4 enlarger, but for the time being am happy making contact prints. Nothing clever, so far I've used my Durst 35mm enlarger as a light source and 5x7 gloss RC paper to print on.
Hopefully I've attached my first bash at this... |
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