Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Malcolm McCullough wrote: > > Mark Rabiner wrote: > >Alan Brown wrote: > >><snip> > >> I also tried Mark Rabiner's suggestion of leaving the b+w print in the > >> developer for 8 to 10 minutes with no agitation. I got chemical fogging > >> and mottling in the print but the shadows really were different and very > >> interesting.><snip> > >Nope, that wasn't me. Does sound a tad like something I would come up with > >though. But no. > >Mark Rabiner > > > > I confess to having made this suggestion. What dev are you using Alan? Did > you cover the tray to prevent safelight fogging? > > If anyone wants to see good examples of this technique, look at any of Tom > (Thomas Joshua) Cooper's work. > > Regards, > Malcolm I have worked from the whole other kind of negs curve wise that you get from two bath developers and water bath techniques. I stopped doing the 2 bath because I was doing a lot of shooting on a white backdrop as I was starting out and I couldn't get it to drop out enough. It was coming out too grey. Very easy to print but not too sharp negs. Mark Rabiner