Forum: Photography


Subject: New stuff

Slynky opened this issue on Oct 04, 2001 ยท 12 posts


Slynky posted Thu, 04 October 2001 at 7:03 PM

this wasn't exactly difficult. One enlarger for one neg, another for the other. I print each one on a full sheet of paper, cut myself out, and paint the remainder of the paper black. I then print each onto one piece of paper, and then add the borders. I exposed a piece of paper, and processed it, which means it came out black. I cut off the edges to make the picture have a border, and cut out the lines as well. Because the paper wasn't completely flat "It curved upward a bit at the edges", the light from the enlarger bounced off the paper which i was printing on, and then the underside of the black paper (which was white underneath). Thge light kept reflecting and bouncing off less and less, creating the soft random soft border next to the solid line border. Easily replicated, with likely technically superior results with digital, or if I just made two separate prints and photoshopped them, but i like the magic and occasional randomness of darkrooms. I did four prints of this one, and thers in the middle change slightly in size (the soft parts) depending on much time I allowed the light to shine on the paper. Then again,m for the hallowe'en contest, I'm going f'in all out in photoshop, recently inspired by a photographer...