[pure-silver] Printing emuslion side up. Why?
- From: Bogdan Karasek <bkarasek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:26:01 -0400
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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