Paper negatives

**NedL** · 27-Jan-2016, 23:02

I think duplicating it might be a little tricky, and more than 7.5 minutes to get it right. Great!!
I sometimes like the negative better than the positive.....

**Wayne** · 28-Jan-2016, 05:38

Well it shouldn't take that long on the enlarger, I would hope. It was a dark cloudy day with only natural light when I exposed in camera.

**Emil Schildt** · 13-Feb-2016, 07:40

Got a new old camera - 24x30 - changed the lens for a Heliar 36cm and made these paper negs...

**donkittle** · 13-Feb-2016, 10:31

Back during week 4 of my 52papernegs project I nabbed this alien invader. Thankfully noone got hurt during the taking of this image.

Alien Invasion - week 4/52
by Don Kittle, on Flickr

**Maris Rusis** · 13-Feb-2016, 14:36

I don't see many negatives in the "Paper Negative" thread. Here's one that was never intended to be rendered as a positive:

Adirondack Chairs, Paper Negative

Gelatin-silver photograph on Ilford VC RC photographic paper, image size 19.6cm X 24.4cm, exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.

**Tin Can** · 13-Feb-2016, 15:34

I like that and a very good reason to shoot with goal of never reversing.

**stawastawa** · 14-Feb-2016, 01:16

Originally Posted by Wayne

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Lovely Wayne, abstract, interesting, engaging. I like the background texture too, all the angles contrasting the curved vase and stem.

**jonbrisbincreative** · 20-Feb-2016, 10:03

I'm only getting started with paper negatives, so I don't have a good feel yet for how I should be exposing them. I see a lot of really high-contrast stuff with paper but it doesn't seem like it has to be that way. This is pretty much a straight-off-the-scanner reflective scan @ 1800 DPI. Control points added in Silver Efex to get some detail back in the topmost rose but no other adjustments to speak of.

Is there as much variation in paper as there is in film? I'm using Arista EDU paper cut to 4x5 but I'm wondering if using a better Ilford paper might give me different/better results? I'm not completely happy with the contrast yet (it seems quite low compared to a lot of other great images on this thread) so I wonder if I need to try some different paper. I'm afraid to push the curves too much. I'd prefer to get it as close to what I want on the paper first.