Michael As Richard explained in his note, there simply is no difference between two split-grade exposures or one equally balanced exposure unless you do some local dodging during one of the split-grade exposures. Mixing light in one go or doing it in two separate exposures results into the same thing. The power of split-grade printing lies in the ability to dodge only during the hard or soft exposure, which is something you just can't do in a single-grade exposure. For more info go to my site at www.darkroomagic.com and look for the pdf on 'Basic Split-Grade Printing' in the 'Book' section. It is a great technique, but there is no magic to split-grade printing. Regards Ralph W. Lambrecht On 9/30/04 9:17 PM, "Michael Healy" <emjayhealy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ralph, I'm curious to know why you say this. In printing to color papers, yes, > split > printing would seem to be pointless; but b&w papers are dealing with light and > dyes - > blue and green dyes. By split printing (using a color head enlarger, anyhow, > with > magenta and yellow), you capitalize on this by severely narrowing the spectrum > of the > light color so it more or less affects only one of the dyes. Magenta will > register the > shadows, yellow will bring out details. I can't for the life of me see how > film type would > negate this. > > Mind you, I've only ever split printed silver gelatin and HIE. When I printed > w/ b&w C-41, > it was prior to discovering the split method. So maybe there's a distinction > here that > would be obvious to someone who had tried? > > Mike > > On 30 Sep 2004 at 17:57, DarkroomMagic wrote: > >> He is probably referring to split-grade printing, which is the >> combination of two separate exposures, one with a soft and the other >> with a hard filter. It is a very useful tool when local dodging or >> burning is combined with this technique. Otherwise, it is exactly the >> same as using a color enlarger and mixing soft and hard filtration in >> one exposure. >> >> Nevertheless, it has no influence on your problem. It doesn't help or >> hurt in printing C41 films. >> >> >> >> >> >> Regards >> >> >> >> Ralph W. Lambrecht >> >> >> >> >> On 9/30/04 2:19 PM, "shannon stoney" <sstoney@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>>> we always have one or two students each session who try printing >>>> c-41 processed b&w negatives. the times will be longer and the >>>> contrast can be a stuggle; however, it can be done. Someone >>>> suggested that split printing is very helpful with these negatives. >>>> I shot some stuff using a roll of Kodak's version to experiment >>>> with split printing to have a better understanding so i could >>>> better assist my students. It is still on my list to accomplish >>>> before the end of the year. >>> >>> >>> What is split printing? >>> >>> --shannon >>> >>> ==================================================================== >>> ========== =============================== To unsubscribe from this >>> list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same >>> e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and >>> unsubscribe from there. >> >> ====================================================================== >> ======================================= To unsubscribe from this list, >> go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail >> address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe >> from there. > > > > ============================================================================== > =============================== > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your > account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) > and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.