Paper Negative

[Andrea]

I have been working with paper negatives of late since they can give such a lovely Pictorialist image in the right hands [and are much cheaper than film]. This is my third image of this type taken on a day trip down to the Isle of Harris with a fellow snapper from Lewis Photographica [continuing]. The image I snapped using an Agfa 8x10 with a shutter-less Wollensak 10", Silverprint Proof paper neg [developed in very weak Multigrade ]and contact printed [yes wet printed eh!] onto FomaVarient RC. .
Not quite your saturated colour that I have seen on here before but Sepia toned. Hope you like it.

Oh, and the location is the Mission House Studio in Floddabay http://www.themissionhouse.co.uk/

[PAUL O]

Lovely!!!!!

[gari]

Hi Andrea, great image. I have been toying with shooting some paper negs through my H/P, what ISO, dev times and print times/ wattage etc to get the print?

I am on the fence re getting shot of my TK for a ULF camera and this may make feeding it do-able/bearable!! I also like the Ortho of old glass plates etc.

Gari

[Andrea]

Hi Gari, thanks for teh comment although I'm not sure I'm up to speed on your h/p and TKs!

For this snap, I pre-flashed some Silverprint proof RC paper [see http://www.silverprint.co.uk/ProductByG ... PrGrp=1197 ] with the condenser enlarger at about 2' height stopped down to f16, 00 filter for 2 secs. Exposed in-camera at iso 5[ish] - about f6 - 10 secs i think.

Development of the neg was in very dilute developer so that the paper neg was very low contrast. contact printed it onto Foma Varient RC with the condenser enlarger at about 2' height about f8 using grades 00 [around 15 secs I think] and 5 [circa 45 secs] - then bleached and sepia toned. Much more fun than scanning.

Hope this helps.

Do have a look at Andrew Sanderson's blog as he has some stuff on Paper negs http://www.thewebdarkroom.com/?p=200 and http://www.andrewsanderson.com/categori ... category=0