[pure-silver] Re: ADV: Un-spotting help please
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- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 08:18:10 +0000
Hi Dennis,
That's an interesting approach, I have this great negative which I stupidly
damaged because I tray processed it with 3 other negatives: scratches (it was
Fomapan 100, a soft emulsion to begin with, and I am not an expert on tray
processing). I spotted the negative on the base side with the finest Kolinski
brush (OO I believe) and a low power stereo microscope, and even than I was not
exact enough, ie I had to spot on the print, but at least it became a white
line.
So your approach is to take a scalpel and "damage" the base side (non emulsion
side) of the negative, right ?
I should give it a try on a discarded negative !
Thanks,
Cor
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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: ADV: Un-spotting help please
If the clear area was caused by a piece of lint or something then nose grease
won't work. And if the line is printing black then re cleaning the neg won't
work.
There is a trick I have used a lot with great success but you need 3 pairs of
reading glasses on all at the same time so you can see really close. Then you
take a very sharp very brand new xacto knife blade and on the base side very
slightly touch the area with the sharp point and it will rough up the base just
a bit and cause density. You can just touch it repeatedly and fill in the hair
line. It makes a finer mark than negative re touching stuff with a brush. I
have done it so precisely that I didn't have to retouch the resulting print.
Dennis
On Jul 1, 2013, at 5:28 PM, Gary Marklund wrote:
> I'm fairly adept at spotting silver gelatin prints, but how do you do the
> opposite?
>
> I printed a portrait of a young lady wearing a white blouse. Apparently
> there is a very fine curly scratch in the negative or a piece of fuzz on the
> film sheet. It is too fine to be a hair. Naturally, this resulted in a fine
> black line on the blouse.
>
> How do I "white-out" the black line?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Gary
>
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