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a simple method is to breathe moist air over your enlarger lens and before it evaporates make your print here is a before and after prints .
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If you wanted the 'dreamy' look then the classic way was to use a soft focus filter. They were available in different strengths. these filters kept the subject sharp but the diffusion gave the effect you are after.
The cheapskates way of doing it was to fit a piece of nylon stocking or tights over the lens. The further away it was from the glass the more obvious it became with the highlight 'bleeding into the shadows. If you tried it in the darkroom with a filter or a piece of stocking over the enlarging lens, the reverse would happen with the shadows bleeding into the highlights giving an all together doom and gloom image. Breathing on the lens in the darkroom will give exactly the same 'dark' effect |
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I occasionally do this when printing by printing through an old 6x6 anti-newton ring slide mount which gives a very slight but noticeable diffusion effect. If I want to be even more subtle I split the expose and only use the diffuser for half the exposure. See attached image for an example - this was half-diffused.
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as they say theres more than one way to skin a cat ,and i think this has proved it ..
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If you use a telephoto lens with it's narrow depth of field you can with the help of the shut down button move the point of focus to soften foreground and background.
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I’m not sure how to link an image from elsewhere on the site, but if you view The Gallery and go to Print Exchange Gallery Round 53 July 2013, I posted a print entitled Loch Doon Castle. I used quite strong diffusion in the darkroom, and you can see the shadows have bled into the middle and higher tones. Although the film was Rollei IR, it has an anti-halation layer, so doesn’t produce the IR glow typical of some older films. I used a Cokin square resin diffuser under the enlarger lens for part of the exposure. The paper was also placed on top of a sheet of shiny aluminium foil in the easel to attempt to bounce some light back through to create a halo. I’m not sure if any of this was successful, but the print shows a softened effect created in the darkroom.
Alex. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro [Edit:] Last edited by Bob; 19th May 2020 at 12:32 AM. |
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