[Leica] Retouching enlargements experience?

[Lluis Ripoll]

Thank you Ken, but my use will be only to be applied on the enlarged positive

Cheers
Lluis


> El 18 febr 2019, a les 22:50, Ken Carney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va escriure:
> 
> Yes, and I have seen Ansel Adams prints where the retouching dye had faded (I would still accept it as a gift).  I used to use the Spotone dyes for retouching prints (there was a learning curve) where the blemish was white.  Where the blemish was black, the only thing was to scrape it out with a knife and then use the retouching dye.  I don't know about making a digital copy.  I have had some limited success making them on an inkjet printer, but this was for large-format contact printing, platinum/palladium process where the paper hid a multitude of sins.  It's hard to imagine making a 35mm size digital negative, but maybe so.
> 
> Ken
> 
> On 2/18/2019 12:17 PM, Robert Baron via LUG wrote:
>> A few years back the OKCLUG (Ken Carney and I) went to a local exhibit that
>> included a number of prints of Arnold Newman's portraits of celebrities.
>> They had been clearly retouched with pencils and the pencil dots had shrunk
>> over the years.
>> 
>> I used to do that too but I have no idea where my old prints are.  They are
>> definitely not in museums.
>> 
>> --Bob
>> 
>> ===On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 10:13 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have successfully retouched thousands of 16x20s and 11x14s with
>>> pencils. Little dots. Nobody can see the retouching without a magnifying
>>> glass. It is a very useful optical illusion. I always printed on
>>> Polycontrast G, but I suspect pencils would also work with an E or X
>>> finish.
>>> 
>>> On 2019-02-17 19:57, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>> I can recall watching my wife's parents do retouching of 5 x 7 studio
>>>> portraits with very sharp pencils, filling flaws by placing very sharp
>>>> dots on the emulsion side.  It is an art that must be learned by
>>>> experience.  I'm not sure this could ever be done with 35mm.
>>> 
>>> 
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