I have a 4x5 color negative that I was printing last night. I had seen that there was some dust on the negative in small prints, but it wasn't too bothersome (small black dots in the sky). Once I enlarged to 16x20 I noticed the cluster of dust was actually insect parts. I can see several legs and other unidentified parts. The ones in the sky are very distracting at this size. Since they are black in the print they happened during exposure. I probably sucked a bug into the graphmatic and ground him up.
Anyway the question is how to fix this without scanning and making a new negative. One option I have thought of is I could make a mask and pencil out the offending areas and then spot the white spots with the right colors. This would be a lot of work, but may work of.
Or is there a way to bleach the black on the prints to make it less noticeable?
Any other suggestions?
Anyway the question is how to fix this without scanning and making a new negative. One option I have thought of is I could make a mask and pencil out the offending areas and then spot the white spots with the right colors. This would be a lot of work, but may work of.
Or is there a way to bleach the black on the prints to make it less noticeable?
Any other suggestions?
