Printing negatives without turning them to positive

[awty]

Yea, this sounds really like fun. I like to layer negatives anyway so it’s again another option. I also use Washi W films among others to get some extra texture.
How to ‘ink out parts’ by the way?

So you can use a Sharpie or text pen on the interpositive. Black to block out other colours might only do partially. So if you had a street light you can use ink to block light on the light and smudge to get a little glow.......and so on

 

[Laci Toth]

So you can use a Sharpie or text pen on the interpositive. Black to block out other colours might only do partially. So if you had a street light you can use ink to block light on the light and smudge to get a little glow.......and so on

Nice! Thanks!

 

[Laci Toth]

Thanks everyone! I just put two together, emulsion to emulsion and voila!
I think I’ll try the wet method as well as I’m curious!

 

[adelorenzo]

If you want to play with something else a strong solarization (Sabbatier effect) will produce an image that is mostly negative. Plus you get cool lines and stuff.

 

[NedL]

there you go! That looks cool!

And adelorenzo is right, that image would look neat solarized. The simplest approach is to expose your positive as usual under the enlarger, and then when it's been in the developer for about 1/2 the time turn on the lights. Lots of variations possible depending on when you turn on the light and how long...

 

[Laci Toth]

Woaaa! That’s sound exciting! I give it a go today! Do you have any recommendation for how long should I turn on the light as a basic? I know that it depends on a lot of factors but still. I’ve dim light in my room anyway. A few seconds or a bit more?

 

[koraks]

Start with 3 seconds and see what you get. If you get little to no effect, it's too short. If the entire print turns dark/grey after the exposure, it's too much. I found that in my darkroom (pretty bright light) I cpuld not get the exppsure short enough so resorted to shining the dim screen light of my phone on the print for about 5 seconds. So I'd suggest giving it a go with a pretty dim light and not the normal light in your darkroom as it is likely to be way too bright for a decent amount of control.

 

[removed account4]

that's great ! glad it worked

Woaaa! That’s sound exciting! I give it a go today! Do you have any recommendation for how long should I turn on the light as a basic? I know that it depends on a lot of factors but still. I’ve dim light in my room anyway. A few seconds or a bit more?

you can all get really kind of fancy about doing solarization...
use water instead of stop bath and take a flashlight and shine the flashlight in the water bath when you are rising it, or
you can take the print out of the water bath put your negative back on it all lined up, and put it under your enlarger and
selectively expose different areas of your print. its a trick i sometimes do if i have a super hot (white) area in a print that refuses to "burn"
and get tone, i just solarize the tone in there. its kind of fun
good luck !

 

[Laci Toth]

that's great ! glad it worked



you can all get really kind of fancy about doing solarization...
use water instead of stop bath and take a flashlight and shine the flashlight in the water bath when you are rising it, or
you can take the print out of the water bath put your negative back on it all lined up, and put it under your enlarger and
selectively expose different areas of your print. its a trick i sometimes do if i have a super hot (white) area in a print that refuses to "burn"
and get tone, i just solarize the tone in there. its kind of fun
good luck !

Thanks for the idea! Saved it! =)

 

[Laci Toth]

It definitely worked! Looking forward to do more!

 

[awty]

Nice work mr Toth.

 

[Laci Toth]

Nice work mr Toth.

Thanks!