Print Technique

[Gaslight123]

Hi everyone!

I'm a newbie in printing at the moment.
& I have a question..
I'm using Durst 707 color head and a RCP 20 for dev.

I would like to know how to do that kind effect. I don't if is with the enlarger or the chemistry.
If someone knows...

Thank you !

Paul

 

[Pieter12]

It's not the enlarger. Try doing some research on color processing and effects.

 

[Gaslight123]

Yes I have been looking around but I didn't find nothing about it..

 

[ic-racer]

Looks like blobs of ink.

 

[removed account4]

Hey GL123..
Where did you find the pix?
Maybe if you email the makers they can offer some breadcrumbs....

I’ve done similar things with b/w and a paper negative scanned in color and just adjusted the levels a little...
https://www.photrio.com/forum/media/tree-and-office-park.64776/

 

[koraks]

I would like to know how to do that kind effect. I don't if is with the enlarger or the chemistry.
If someone knows...

There are multiple ways to skin a cat, but the images you show could be reproduced by fogging the paper with appropriate light sources. Laser pointers come to mind. Keep in mind that the color you'll get will be the opposite in the color wheel from the light that's used for fogging. So yellow light will give blue fog, cyan light will give you red, etc. Light of very high intensity may fog all color layers and not just the color you're targeting; so e.g. in those final two images, a green light source may have been used and targeted at a small area which then became overexposed across all color 'layers', with the edges bleeding out into the complementary color of the light source used. Cut-out masks can be used to get the kind of shapes as shown in image #2.

Additional special effects can be obtained by chemical staining; e.g. small and very dilute drops of blix (let's say 1+20 or so) dropped onto the paper before it goes into the developer. You'll basically mess up your developer as well this way as it gets contaminated, so you'll have to resort to using it one-shot, or at least keep a separate batch of developer at hand for normal color printing.

 

[Gaslight123]

There are multiple ways to skin a cat, but the images you show could be reproduced by fogging the paper with appropriate light sources. Laser pointers come to mind. Keep in mind that the color you'll get will be the opposite in the color wheel from the light that's used for fogging. So yellow light will give blue fog, cyan light will give you red, etc. Light of very high intensity may fog all color layers and not just the color you're targeting; so e.g. in those final two images, a green light source may have been used and targeted at a small area which then became overexposed across all color 'layers', with the edges bleeding out into the complementary color of the light source used. Cut-out masks can be used to get the kind of shapes as shown in image #2.

Additional special effects can be obtained by chemical staining; e.g. small and very dilute drops of blix (let's say 1+20 or so) dropped onto the paper before it goes into the developer. You'll basically mess up your developer as well this way as it gets contaminated, so you'll have to resort to using it one-shot, or at least keep a separate batch of developer at hand for normal color printing.

Hi Koraks,
Thank you for all that information !
Laser pointers are a great idea to start. Also those effect looks pretty fluide, that why I was thinking about mix of chemistry.

 

[Gaslight123]

Wi

There are multiple ways to skin a cat, but the images you show could be reproduced by fogging the paper with appropriate light sources. Laser pointers come to mind. Keep in mind that the color you'll get will be the opposite in the color wheel from the light that's used for fogging. So yellow light will give blue fog, cyan light will give you red, etc. Light of very high intensity may fog all color layers and not just the color you're targeting; so e.g. in those final two images, a green light source may have been used and targeted at a small area which then became overexposed across all color 'layers', with the edges bleeding out into the complementary color of the light source used. Cut-out masks can be used to get the kind of shapes as shown in image #2.

Additional special effects can be obtained by chemical staining; e.g. small and very dilute drops of blix (let's say 1+20 or so) dropped onto the paper before it goes into the developer. You'll basically mess up your developer as well this way as it gets contaminated, so you'll have to resort to using it one-shot, or at least keep a separate batch of developer at hand for normal color printing.

Do you fog the paper before or after enlarging the image?

 

[koraks]

Either should work.