1. New Technology/Old Images

    A couple of days ago I talked about revisiting old journals. As part of that process I dug around in some of my old 5x4 negatives dating as far back as 1989. There are some gems, and as a consequence I’ve scanned a couple.

    No sooner had I opened them on my computer had I realised why they had never been printed. My developing skills were still very rough [I was tray developing in those day using pyro] and the amount of marks and scratches on the emulsion and IN the emulsion made these images unprintable.

    Until now that is.

    Using any good software tool I can easily and seamlessly remove the blemishes that would have gotten in the way of me making a beautiful print. The image above in particular, had black holes in the emulsion which print as black spots and therefore need to be etched out of the print then re-spotted back in, always in the sky too, always the skies!

    So here is one such negative reused as it were. All I need now is the time to make the prints then find a space to exhibit them.

    2. 3 months ago  Notes (6)
      1. thoughtfactory said: Good idea. I’ve started doing the same. I used to tray develop in the late 1980s as well.
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