Colour Paper Negatives

[Mkillmer]

I've been pursuing colour paper negatives for a while now. Finally I'm starting to have some success with Fuji Crystal Archive and a combination of 85B,85C, Magenta and Yellow filters.
My technique is to set filters depending on the light source then develop in standard RA-4 (I use Tetanol)
Here's some of mine - anybody else have some to share?

Baseball Glove
Filters 85B-85C-25Y- 20M
Studio Flash


Pears
85B-85C-40M-30Y
Colour balanced in photoshop

[MMELVIS]

Very nice work, I am interested in seeing more samples

[lkkang]

hi Mkillmer,

nice work... BRAVO !!!

I have been shooting lots of B&W paper negatives and is looking into paper color negatives too....
Question, do you need to do a contact print to get the positive color ? or can you do a one-time exposure to get the positive image onto paper ?

Billy

[Mkillmer]

Hi Billy,
Thanks for the kind words.
I've been scanning and inverting. But... if you did want to contact print you could use a colour enlarger and set the head to something like C25 Y100 M100 (I guess!) and it should print really well.
There is a reverse process that uses Kodak paper and dektol as a first developer then fogging then RA-4 development as per usual. I tried this once and the results were so horrible I gave up immediately:

It looks like a 1970-'s nightmare.

[lkkang]

thanks for the reply...
looking forward to see more of your works here...

Billy

[Mkillmer]

Since you asked...
These were taken with a studio strobe with 85B-85V-25Y-20M filters...

[Mkillmer]

I tried an alternate set of filters tonight with the flash - this time Yellow-Coffee-85C.
There was too much yellow in the straight invert, but it balanced out fine. This image was over exposed, I shot at aperture f/6.3 rather than f/16.
I metered for ISO 6 so I guess that I shot at about ISO 1.5 or maybe a bit lower.


This image was better metered (ISO 3), but it didn't balance as well...

[Holdenrichards]

Very COOL!

[mollypix]

Where do you put these filters?
is it on the camera while taking
or when printing the paper neg later?
Thanks

I tried an alternate set of filters tonight with the flash - this time Yellow-Coffee-85C.
There was too much yellow in the straight invert, but it balanced out fine. This image was over exposed, I shot at aperture f/6.3 rather than f/16.
I metered for ISO 6 so I guess that I shot at about ISO 1.5 or maybe a bit lower.


This image was better metered (ISO 3), but it didn't balance as well...

[Bipin]

I've always wanted to try colour paper negatives. Great work - I hope to see more!