Dodging and Burning...UV Flashlight?

[bibowj]

Hello all! Somewhat new poster here, though Im moderately active on APUG.

Ive been shooting for a pretty long time, both film and digital and recently discovered Alt Processes and its revitalized the art for me.. and now Im waiting for all my 'kit' to arrive so I can learn and play...

In the meantime, I have a basics question. As Ive been doing my research on different processes and techniques, I had an idea that might be so basic that its a 'duh, obviously".

Ill be doing pt/pd and using a indoor UV source...shooting mostly portraits. Now my question is, once the image has reached the proper (to me) exposure time, can I use a UV flashlight to dodge/burn parts of the image I want to be more exposed as I would in a traditional dark room? It SEEMs quite plausible to me, but I dont see much mention of that online. Mostly folks are doing all that work in PS prior to printing the Digital Neg.

Thoughts?

Thanks everyone

 

[Doyle Thomas]

the UV light used is uncollated, that is, unfocused. while it may be possible to b&d large areas trying to isolate small detail may prove hard to do and the generally long exposures needed is also an issue.

 

[lenny]

I used to do this - a little. Just make sure you use gloves that go all the way up or you will get quite a sunburn if you don't watch out....

Lenny

 

[jeffreyg]

I have a uv bulb assembly I got years ago from Aristo. I shielded it with a cardboard tube but have found that making masks, while cumbersome has worked better. Since my lightbox has little clearance between the bulbs and printing frame it isn't for very small areas and 4x5 negatives. I might revisit the shielded bulb but nothing beats a negative that just requires one exposure time. It's much easier to make an enlarged negative on x-ray duplicating film or Pictorico OHP transparent film and print from that.

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