pierods
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Sieff was known for very rich blacks and “auras”.
The auras are not extremely difficult to do, the blacks are.
Case in point…this photo.
What I am more or less certain about:
- he used either Leica or Hasselblad, mostly Hasselblad on assignments (maybe important or not, just stating it)
- he used only tri-x (which I think is not the tri-x of today)
- he used only d-76
- he was capable of spending a whole day at the enlarger on a single image, and I think he even said himself that his images were 90% darkroom
What I suppose:
- baryta paper. Is it enough for those blacks? I only saw such blacks in my photos with b/w reversed film.
- normal dev times and painstaking darkening of black areas under the enlarger. Faces and other details are not high contrast
- OR…high contrast dev and then take advantage of the high forgiveness of tri-x to bring back some things to normal contrast
Feel free to contradict me. I have so much to learn from people with so much more experience than me. Thanks.
The auras are not extremely difficult to do, the blacks are.
Case in point…this photo.
What I am more or less certain about:
- he used either Leica or Hasselblad, mostly Hasselblad on assignments (maybe important or not, just stating it)
- he used only tri-x (which I think is not the tri-x of today)
- he used only d-76
- he was capable of spending a whole day at the enlarger on a single image, and I think he even said himself that his images were 90% darkroom
What I suppose:
- baryta paper. Is it enough for those blacks? I only saw such blacks in my photos with b/w reversed film.
- normal dev times and painstaking darkening of black areas under the enlarger. Faces and other details are not high contrast
- OR…high contrast dev and then take advantage of the high forgiveness of tri-x to bring back some things to normal contrast
Feel free to contradict me. I have so much to learn from people with so much more experience than me. Thanks.