The print is just knock your eyes out sharp and has great relief. This one you would really need to see in the flesh to appreciate. Right up there with one of the best carbon transfer prints I have ever done, and it came at a good time too since I worked for three days with a devil negative that would not print the way I wanted. This one was just beautiful out of the box, first print, and perfect.
I will bring it with me to Santa Fe for the APIS just in case anyone here plans to attend.
Has a 3 dimensional effect. A very impressive print & technique. Guess I need to put Carbon on my must learn list (just now ordered your Carbon book from B&S).
This one is worth going to Santa Fe to see....In a word, beautiful....I need to start letting my BTZS take me out there to those SBR's above 10...your images seem to"live" out there...wow!
To avoid any confusion I modified the description of this gallery submission to indicate that the image depicted is a scan of a 5X7" carbon transfer contact print from an in-camera negative. I have also made this image in 12" X 17" size from an enlarged negative.
And about the high SBR, it is true that a lot of my work is done in scenes of very high contrast. I really like the play of light and texture in scenes that are strongly back or side-lighted. I exposed around a hundred negatives during my recent trip to Morelia. Of those, about 20% were in SBR scenes of 6 or less, about 10% in normal contrast of SBR 7, and the rest in scenes of SBR 10 or more. The best way I have found to develop high SBR negatives is with a very dilute solution of Pyrocat-HD with minimal agitation, that is, only four agitation cycles during development, one at the beginning for 1.5 minutes, and then for 10-15 seconds at the 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 points of development. You can get more compensation with semi-stand or stand development, but there is greater risk of uneven development. You might not notice the uneven develoment in outdoor scenes where there is lots of texture, but in scenes of structures where there are large areas of even tone it is a real danger.