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    New method for making large negatives for platinum prints

    The following is excerpted from an article about work that Elliott Erwitt has accomplished in the realm of platinum printing. Has anyone looked into this ?

    "Smooth prints with clear details
    HP was lucky. One of its color scientists, Angel
    Albarran, who is a photographer with a passion
    for alternative printing processes, discovered that
    green Original HP Photo Ink just happens to have
    a very linear response to ultraviolet light. As the
    density of this green ink on a negative increases,
    the amount of light that makes it through to the
    coated paper decreases in a very predictable way.
    Albarran developed the Large Format Photo Negative
    application to exploit this linear response, providing
    accurate differentiation among tones right through
    the grayscale spectrum. The result is that well-defined
    details automatically show up in shadows, mid-tones
    and highlights, and there’s also a clean white on
    the final prints. Printmakers can now forget about
    digital tone adjustments before printing, unless they
    particularly want to darken or lighten part of the
    original image."

    New way to look at making our large negs for platinum/palladium prints.

    Start experimenting again ?
    Last edited by Doug Clevenger; 28-Feb-2011 at 19:22.

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    Re: New method for making large negatives for platinum prints

    Did they say what HP printer was used?

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    Re: New method for making large negatives for platinum prints

    Also : http://h10088.www1.hp.com/cda/gap/display/main/index.jsp?zn=gap&cp=20000-20058-20295-20457^321990_4041_100__

    and :

    http://h10088.www1.hp.com/cda/gap/display/main/index.jsp?zn=gap&cp=20000-13698-15259-15788^322739_4041_100__

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    Re: New method for making large negatives for platinum prints

    This s great information! Thanks for sharing.
    loved the "Rolls Royce and Ferarri combined" quote from the Portland website.
    A true perverse hybrid

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    Re: New method for making large negatives for platinum prints

    Here is a link to a youtube video on the making of the Erwitt prints.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8HroH1Leio

    There was also a good dicussion of the new HP digi-negs over on DPUG.org and Angel comments & clarifies a few points

    http://www.dpug.org/forums/f8/new-vi...egatives-2039/

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