post alternative techniques

[captainscot]

Beautiful image, captainscot! I suspect the color is a bit cooler in the actual print than it appears on my monitor, but I like it how I see it now as well!

Btw, I have some questions concerning kallitypes and Van Dyke. Because I didn't want to further disturb this thread by lengthy Q&A's, I created a new thread in the Darkroom forum. Perhaps the people who read this thread and have experience with the chemistry in these processes could help me out, if you will.

Thanx for the comment, yes the image is a touch cooler and a bit darker, its hard to describe the actual color, the sky is pretty much neutral gray but the hay bales and grass in the foreground have a hint of blueish magenta in it. I have only been doing this a few months but its alot of fun and very addicting.

[Erik Larsen]

An old Hudson in the weeds near Flaming Gorge. A bromoil print using lewis bromoil paper and senefelder crayon black ink. Forgive the iPhone pic please.

[Emil Schildt]

Laura - Bromoil Print (12x16) - 9x12 Foma film.

[D-tach]

Laura - Bromoil Print (12x16) - 9x12 Foma film.

Nice Emil! I'm attending a bromoil and oil print workshop next month, can't wait...
Do you use modern papers for bromoil as I've read that they stopped manufacturing papers specific for bromoil printing?

[Emil Schildt]

Nice Emil! I'm attending a bromoil and oil print workshop next month, can't wait...
Do you use modern papers for bromoil as I've read that they stopped manufacturing papers specific for bromoil printing?

be careful!! It is highly addictive!!!

I never use pre made papers - I use liquid emulsion and effectively make my own papers - that way I am sure they are not hardened at all...

(I made a book on it - you can take a prewiev here: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3544067

[D-tach]

be careful!! It is highly addictive!!!

I never use pre made papers - I use liquid emulsion and effectively make my own papers - that way I am sure they are not hardened at all...

(I made a book on it - you can take a prewiev here: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3544067

Thanks for the link and info - looks interesting.
I like the painterly look of bromoil and oil printing

Also found and interesting documentary about Norman Gryspeerdt who explains it very well - and who was apparently a very good 'Photoshop avant la lettre' expert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6fnHmydwJc

[andreios]

From modern papers one that works best (or rather least bad) is Fomabrom IV 123 with lustre surface. But I am also trying my way around liquid emulsion as per Emil's advice and it works better indeed.

(You can also try fomabrom 112 matte, but that is very picky when it comes to soaking time and ink quality. )

[Emil Schildt]

Alternative - even for me...

Playing with Bromoil - this time using Gold paint and dried flowers....

[ndg]

Carbon Transfer - truly an amazing process!
The negative for this print was captured on 14" x 20" green Xray negative with Nikon 450mm lens at f64.
Try as I may, I couldn't get the details of the pier to print with several different techniques.
I even tried several layers in a gum print - no success!
As I got better at pouring 14x20 carbon tissue, I decided last week to see if I could get any success with carbon.
Well...

The image is 12" x 18" on fixed out Ilford 300 photo paper
I used Black Cat India ink as pigment.
Sorry about the reflections on the capture (done with a dig cam) does not do the print justice!

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Nana, very nice and not an easy print to make. I know what the print must look like. Carbon printing is very addictive. Continue on!!