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Having established the speed, I took the camera out and tried a few landscapes; my first results ranged from poor to not good, but there was something about it that caught my imagination. The paper, being blue sensitive, altered the representation of tones, and the texture of the paper showed up even on contact prints. During this time I have tried most commonly available papers but I stuck mainly to Kentmere art document, which gave a wonderful texture to the finished image. This particular texture is no longer possible since Kentmere changed the print surface to a dot-dash-dot pattern which is fine for prints, but unattractive for paper negatives. Most of the papers I have used have been fixed grade, which are not only biased in their tonal representation but more contrasty than film and therefore not as tolerant to slight over- or under-exposure. Also, the working ISO fluctuated according to the colour temperature of the daylight. This, as you can imagine, caused problems when ‘out in the field’. I would often find myself with very difficult negatives, and started to ‘rescue’ thin shadow detail by the addition of pencil on the back (I was unaware that this was a very old technique). At first I was very tentative and delicate with my pencil work, not wishing to overdo it, but gradually I became much more confident of how much tone was needed. In some cases adding very thick layers of soft pencil. The more confident I got about adding pencil work, the more rewarding the results. Over the years I became a little dissatisfied with lugging a large plate camera and tripod up hill and down dale, only to be rewarded with semi-usable negatives, and began to look at other ways to achieve the same effect. Looking through some contact sheets one day, I came across a frame that I wished I had taken on paper negative and decided to try and ‘fake it’. Starting with a proof print on ordinary resin coated paper. Not all paper negative work needs to be long-winded, you may just like to try paper in the camera and print it ‘straight’, whatever you decide just give it a go, it’s great fun. Next Page >> |
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