When you're dodging and burning cyanotypes, you have a LOT of time to ponder your life decisions... I was wondering if anyone's ever tried to save the sum total of gradient masks, dodging and burning, etc from a scan in Lightroom, applying it to a middle gray image, inverting, then printing a digital negative to suspend above the actual negative while it's printing. Of course it would take some calibration after a few try, but it would be cool to get a "true" contact print from the film with the benefit of exposure adjustments that are repeatable. I think depending on the UV source, suspending it like a half an inch or even less would completely blur out any halftone texture from the digital negative if there was even a question of that being visible in the print.
I know people are gonna say just print the final digital negative you idiot, but come on, while we're at it making digital negatives, we're using an inkjet printer capable of printing the positive image with excellent quality from the get go...
I know people are gonna say just print the final digital negative you idiot, but come on, while we're at it making digital negatives, we're using an inkjet printer capable of printing the positive image with excellent quality from the get go...
