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[Fourtoes]

Gandolfi, Bromoil is on my list of must do techniques, and your images re-affirm why....if thats a word? Brilliant.

[Jay Decker]

The Road Not Taken

4x6 Collodion on Aluminum
Xenar 270/4.5 - Wide Open
Kennewick, WA

[Mark MacKenzie]

I have a question regarding Bromoil. I hope it is appropriate to post it here.
Are the high detail advantages of large format lost in a bromoil print?
Would a Bromoil print from a 35mm or medium format negative look indistinguishable?

[Emil Schildt]

I have a question regarding Bromoil. I hope it is appropriate to post it here.
Are the high detail advantages of large format lost in a bromoil print?
Would a Bromoil print from a 35mm or medium format negative look indistinguishable?

I can only answer this on my basis/experience using liquid emulsion as matrix. I have only made on eattempt in doing it on "normal" papers.

Liquid emulsion bromoils tend to be a little more rough, than normal paper bromoils.

A couple of reasons for that:

I am using a brush to apply the emulsion - that can give an uneven emulsion layer, and brush strokes can/will appear.

For inking I am using a sponge rather than the "official" bromoil brush. I think this also can result in a little less accurate inking..

But - I have done bromoils with surprisingly high amount of details, so it can be done.

I make bromoils from everything from 35mm to ULF negatives. They all work.

But I suspect, if you want the suttelties from a LF neg then you should proberly use the classic approach.
There I know, you can get all the details and suttleties as you want.
(I just can't...)

[Vaughn]

A platinum/palladium print. I posted this image as my intro to this forum a few years back.

Yosemite National Park

[Joe Forks]

Nice Vaughn!

[Vaughn]

Thanks, Joe. Another platinum/palladium print

Snow, El Capitan Meadow
Yosemite National Park.
8x10 w/ 300mm

[Joe Forks]

Another nice one, in my mind PT/PD and the american west go together like cake and ice cream!

[Mark MacKenzie]

Thanks, Emil!

[Vaughn]

Another nice one, in my mind PT/PD and the american west go together like cake and ice cream!

Well, I can't eat ice cream anymore, so here is some jello to go with that cake...

Oak, Cascade Creek, YNP
carbon print