From: christine (christine@napc.com)
Date: 06/27/01-12:00:15 PM Z
Thank you very much, Carl, I found that helpful. By the way, your photos on the
b+s page are excellent. I especially like the Ziatypes whose film had been
processed in rollo. I've got a thing for fog.
Cheers,
Christine
Carl Weese wrote:
> Christine,
>
> In the book reproducing Belloque's "Storyville Portraits" printed by Lee
> Friedlander from original glass plate negatives, the introduction says that
> Friedlander at first found the negatives too contrasty even for silver POP,
> when exposed in the usual way in sunlight. Somehow or other, he figured out
> that if he exposed very slowly in subdued light, the contrast came down into
> range. According to these notes in the book, he printed some of these
> negatives all day every day for a week or more using indoor window
> illumination.
>
> If that holds true, then it seems that exposing in full sunlight will give
> the highest of contrast with this material while long exposures in softer
> light will lower contrast. But other factors, like the spectrum of the
> exposing light, may introduce another completely separate factor.---Carl
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