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stradibarrius
5-Oct-2012, 16:57
Is there a way to make a print that comes out looking like the negative rather than the typical positive image?

Vaughn
5-Oct-2012, 17:08
Shoot slide film and print the slide.

Contact a positive print to another piece of paper to get a negative print.

Contact or enlarge your negative onto another piece of film and use the resulting positive to make the negative print.

Oren Grad
5-Oct-2012, 18:52
There are formulas for reversal processing of B&W film; a few people have gone to the trouble of figuring out how to adapt the general approach to make it work with paper. You might try searching over at APUG - I think there's been some discussion there.

Pawlowski6132
5-Oct-2012, 20:09
Easy, make a paper negative. Put your paper in your film holder.

ic-racer
6-Oct-2012, 08:42
Use the Harman direct positive paper for printing your negatives.

stradibarrius
6-Oct-2012, 08:57
If I use a paper negative it will still look like a positive...right??? Sometimes I look at my negatives and think how great they look and wish I could have that as a print.
Will the Harmon Direct paper make the print look negative?

E. von Hoegh
6-Oct-2012, 09:06
If I use a paper negative it will still look like a positive...right??? Sometimes I look at my negatives and think how great they look and wish I could have that as a print.
Will the Harmon Direct paper make the print look negative?

If you expose paper in the camera and process it normally it will be a negative print. If you use Harman direct positive paper under an enlarger you will get a negative print.

stradibarrius
6-Oct-2012, 09:12
Thanks!!!

ic-racer
7-Oct-2012, 07:17
If I use a paper negative it will still look like a positive...right??? Sometimes I look at my negatives and think how great they look and wish I could have that as a print.
Will the Harmon Direct paper make the print look negative?

Put the Harman Direct Positive paper in your camera (you said you are making paper negatives, yes?). That is what the paper is for.

Dan Dozer
8-Oct-2012, 18:48
Mordencage process. Not exactly opposite, but very interesting in it's own right.

Drew Wiley
9-Oct-2012, 13:54
I like the double negative technique. Contact the first neg onto the duplicate.