Re: Paper Negative Questions

Gary,

Yes, it will turn out as a positive. But with some papers you can use
this process apparently to reduce the tonal scale from an extremely
contrasty negative. It's called the Emmerman Process.

The process goes as follows:
After pre-soaking the paper, expose under the enlarger for the shadows
(exposure will be about 1/2 the time of the normal exposure for that
print) and let the developper work for about 1.5 minutes. The shadows
will develop first and will block the area from further exposure to
light. In the second stage expose the paper for the highlights (about
1.5 times the normal time) and place the paper in the developper tray
for 1.5-2 minutes. Stop, fix as usual. The resulting print will
normally show much more details in the shadows than you would get
otherwise, while the highlights and the midtones will be normal.

I did some experiments with pre-soaking in developper several years ago
while attending a workshop with Robert Mann and it gave me prints that
had some partial solarisation effects into it. Check the reference
pop-up on the Emmerman Process at Robert Mann's web site at
http://parisdarkroom.com/
It's an interesting process that works with some images, but I have not
pushed it very far.

Guy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Nored" <gnored@centurytel.net>
To: <pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Paper Negative Questions

> On 22 Jun 2002, at 0:49, Guy Glorieux wrote:
>
> > If you want to be real fancy with paper negatives and darkroom &
other
> > techniques, check the amazing article on the Bostick&Sullivan web
site
> > "The Mortensen Wet Paper Negative Method"
> > http://www.bostick-sullivan.com/Technical_papers/mortenso.htm
> >
> Guy,
>
> I read this link with fascination. But I can't help wondering
> what the purpose was for using developer-soaked paper
> for the first positive. It still comes out positive, right?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Gary Nored
>
>
>
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Received on Sun Jun 23 07:47:08 2002