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Subject: [Leica] Retouching enlargements experience?
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:30:35 +0100
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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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