From the course: Black-and-White Darkroom: Printing Techniques
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Additional papers and new things to explore
From the course: Black-and-White Darkroom: Printing Techniques
Additional papers and new things to explore
- We've just scratched the surface of black and white printing in this course. I hope I've given you the fundamentals to get you started, but keep in mind even with just paper choices there's so many changes you can make. We worked with a cold tone RC paper, where one of my favorite papers is a warm tone fiber paper that brings out almost rich chocolate hues in the shadows. Chemistry changes can make many different things happen. We used one developer out of a host of choices. So exploration is really the key as you go through this. We also only looked at traditional gelatin silver printing. There's a number of alternative photographic processes such as Van Dyke printing or Cyanotype priting that are equally entertaining though very different from what we've done. Another thing that we stuck with was the 35mm format. Perhaps you've got a Dianna or Holga camera and are getting those wonderful kind of magic fuzzy edged negatives. That's a whole other direction you can go in in the black…
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