Darkroom fun with ortho film

Thumbs up! I don't remember seeing this picture before. Care to explain how you did it?

The original was a lattice structure in a garden centre and because of the many poles in vertical and horizontal proximity I thought it was an interesting abstract composition. However, when converting the negative to pos and back to neg on ortho film in the darkroom I can't remember what happened, or how the face appeared. I just got totally absorbed in variations of possibilities. If you asked me to recreate this, I couldn't do it. Darkroom zen.

Happy accident!

Thanks! I'm still wondering, how do you convert from positive to negative and back on ortho film?

miha said:

Thanks! I'm still wondering, how do you convert from positive to negative and back on ortho film?

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You use ortho as you would printing paper. When dry, contact print it onto another sheet of ortho under glass.

Thanks. It seems like a lot of experimenting without being entirely sure of the outcome, which is fine.