What can i do when the weather calls for fog?

J Rollinger

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Hello and happy April 2 2011 to everyone! Today i finally finished my darkroom and I'm so happy that i could roll on the floor smiling all day! The first thing i did was to test some old paper that i received to check for fog.... It was a foggy afternoon for me! I have fresh Ilford paper so i dont need any of these but i cant toss them. Is there anything i can do with them.. fun/stupid experiments? The first photo is Ilford MG3... Bigtime fog! Second photo is Kodak Polyfiber.... fogged I was really hoping that the Polyfiber would be o.k. The third photo is mystery paper. I received a 11x14 paper safe that contained about 30 or so sheets of unknown paper and expected this paper to be the oldest of them all... but.... WTF... There is no fog! How can this be? The paper is curled at the edges real bad in the black bag. The paper is Fiber but is it possible that it could be color paper and that why i got no fog when i tested it?

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Jim
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When it is a foggy day I go out and shoot photographs with the aperture open one f-stop.

Does that help?

Steve
 

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Go out and photograph... I like foggy days!
 

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Lith printing and pinholing come to mind.

You can also paint with developer in the light, then fix, and the unpainted portions will be white.

You can also try using added restrainers to see if you can get anything more out of the high tones.
 
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Thanks for all the great ideas! I just did some research on Photograms and was amazed. Photograms just open a new door for me. I was just looking at Man Ray's photograms (Rayograph's) and it amazed me. Now I'm happy to have 200 sheets of fogged paper to play with. Does anyone know why the 11x14 fiber paper had no fog, could it actually be color paper?
 

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Colour paper is coloured because of dyes, not white. Endura is purplish, depending on how long you leave it exposed to light, it changes quite a bit
 
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The mystery has been solved, the 11x14 paper is color. I left a small strip laying in my darkroom exposed to light and it turned purple.
 

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J Rollinger said:
The mystery has been solved, the 11x14 paper is color. I left a small strip laying in my darkroom exposed to light and it turned purple.
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I've had undeveloped black and white paper turn slightly purple in the light.

Is there any back printing on the 11x14 paper?
 

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I'd try a black and white test, in some developer you can afford to waste.
 

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I like the pinhole idea best so far, photograms second.

Foggy/misty daylight is one of the few times I use a blue filter
to enhance the 'dreamy' effect.

Best regards,

/Clay
 
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