[alt-photo] Re: Creating Film Negative by Enlarging a Film/ Slide Positive

[Francesco Fragomeni]

Haha! Don't say such silly things Diana! I've seen your work and spoken to
you at length many times (as we both know haha) and you are anything but
lazy! I'm just in an isolated environment at the moment and trying to take
advantage of the lack of distractions around me so I can punch out some
things I've been interested in for a while!

-Francesco

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Diana Bloomfield <dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net
> wrote:

> Gosh, Francesco-- all I know is that all your recent posts are making me
> feel very lazy and quite inadequate.  I'm all lazy down here at the beach,
> and the most I've been doing is running with my dog.  I guess I need to get
> busy doing something pertaining to photography.  Honestly, every post I
> read from you makes me feel lazier and lazier.
>
> As usual, I have nothing substantive to offer here, and if I did, I'm
> afraid it might include a conversation about digital negatives :0  . . .
> but on the face of it, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to expose
> positive film onto a larger piece of b&w negative film, and I imagine the
> higher (or lower) contrast depends on your ultimate choice of alt process.
>   ??
>
> Diana
>
> On Jun 3, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Francesco Fragomeni wrote:
>
> > I'm interested in enlarging positive film (any slide/ chrome film or B&W
> > reversal processed film) onto a larger piece of traditional B&W negative
> > film (not lith) for the purpose of producing enlarged negatives suitable
> > for alt-process and Azo. I know people do this but I've had a difficult
> > time finding a solid explanation and instructions for how to go about it
> > since it is far more common to scan these days which I am very aware of
> but
> > not interested in with this particular case.
> >
> > Basically, can I expose/ enlarge slide (positive) film onto regular B&W
> > negative film and achieve an enlarged negative? Is the higher contrast of
> > slide film helpful in this situation or a hinderance? Would it be better
> to
> > contact print B&W negative film (much lower contrast) onto another piece
> of
> > B&W neg film to produce a positive, develop to the same contrast as the
> > original, and then enlarge that lower contrast film-interpositive onto a
> > larger sheet of B&W neg film to achieve the enlarged negative?
> >
> > I'm interested in this specific process of enlarging film positives to
> > larger negatives, not the alternatives so lets please try to stay on
> topic
> > and not go astray with conversations of digital negatives, duplicating
> > film, etc., although if reversal processing your original B&W neg to
> > positive plays a role that might be worth explaining.
> >
> > Thank you!!
> >
> > -Francesco Fragomeni
> > www.francescofragomeni.com
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