Re: My two color carbon
Marek, many thanks for clarification. That's very interesting
indeed. I look forward to seeing the next step,
Katharine
On Oct 19, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Marek Matusz wrote:
These were made without negatives. Just various plants placed on
the sensitized plates (back exposure). The density of the plant
material is so high that it blocks a lot of light. It is typical to
have very little tonal values in this situation. To get some
tonality I was playing with scatterd light by moving plants away
from the glass. My exposures were quite long, 8 to 12 minutes.
The idea of having two different color layers of carbon on the same
plate worked quite well. Full exposure has hardened both color
layers and partial exposure only one layer, so the top layer could
be washed away. The two separate colours used are visible at the
edges. Next thing is to expose some negatives. I am hoping for
some nice duotone transitions from highlight to shadows.
Marek
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:08:57 -0700
> From: kthayer@pacifier.com
> Subject: Re: My two color carbon
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
>
> That reminds me, I meant to comment on your carbon prints, and thank
> you for sharing them. I found these interesting in that they didn't
> seem, to my eyes, to be as continuous-tone as the back-exposed gum
> prints on transparency film you showed a year or two ago (could it
> have been that long?). Do you think it's the thickness of the glass,
> or that the negatives aren't a similar contrast range, or is it just
> the scans that aren't picking up subtleties of tone?
> Katharine
>
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>
> On Sep 29, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Marek Matusz wrote:
>
> >
> > All,
> > Here is my work from yesterday. These are two color carbons on
> > glass, back exposure of various botanicals.
> > Marek
> > http://picasaweb.google.com/marekmatusz1/CarbonOnGlass
> >
> >
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