Hi all,
Sounds like a dumb question but why do the
"They" always say that you have to print with
the emulsion side up, towards the light
source? Is there a technical reason for this?
The reason I ask is that this afternoon I was
printing a 4x5 neg to 11x14. The neg is part of
a series of abstracts I'm doing using just
twigs, leaves, petals, pebbles on a black backround.
To cut to the chase, this afternoon, I had a neg
that gave what I wanted when I put it in the
neg holder, emulsion side down. I was the only
way to get the position I wanted. Print was
beautiful, just what I wanted. For comparisons
sake, I printed the same neg, emulsion side up,
different position, of course, but I wanted to
see if there was something different, materially
different, about the first print because it had
ben printed emulsion side down. Sorry, but I
couldn't see a difference. There is the fact
that I am biased towards the first print which I
like the best and that may be blinding me
towards something else. Is there something
specific that I should be looking for and then
comparing that something specific in each
print. I have a feeling that it may have
something to do with the focus....Vaguely
remember reading texts and teachers Darkroom 101
saying that you had to put the neg emulsion side
up into the filmholder, the reason being........???????
Like I said, it's probably very obvious but I'm ignoring it.
If anybody has any ideas, they are welcome.
Cheers,
Bogdan
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Bogdan Karasek
Montréal, Québec e-mail: bkarasek@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Canada
"I photograph my reality"
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