Lab technique

[benjaminlr]

I read this on Ken Rockwell's website:

"People use a fast scan of the image as a tracing background, and use Photoshop's painting tools to paint yellow, gray and magenta over the image.

The gray is for dodging.

Yellow and magenta are for local contrast manipulation with variable contrast paper.

These artists then load transparency film into their $99 inkjets, and sandwich this as a mask along with their negatives in their enlarger!

This is a brilliant technique. It allows all the 3-D detail from a direct optical print, and allows minute adjustment, and repeatable results. "

Did anyone try this out it's simple and clever !!!

 

[wyk_penguin]

I would not do such things with 135 negs. It is more simple to dodge by using you hands. If split filter printing is concerned, i prefer to trace the outline on some black cardboard and do the masking on the easel.

I imagine the technique would work for 4X5 (at least 6X6, 135 is simply to small) and you would not have to cut a new mask everytime you changed the magnification.