Seeking Grainy Paper Negative Developer

[xkaes]

Since you are making contact prints, you would have to take a picture of a texture screen and sandwich it -- but if you are exposing under an enlarger, you could put the screen in the enlarger -- focused with a lens -- for the exposure.

[LFLarry]

Thank you for the help. I will give this a try.

Since you are making contact prints, you would have to take a picture of a texture screen and sandwich it -- but if you are exposing under an enlarger, you could put the screen in the enlarger -- focused with a lens -- for the exposure.

[Doremus Scudder]

Yep, the grain is baked-in to the paper. Developer won't make much of a difference, likely no visible difference, in grain.

You can contact print using Pt/Pd and get a bit of grainy look as well (comes from the process). Lith printing may give you a look you like too.

Doremus

[ic-racer]

As mentioned, lith printing makes a grainy print. Here are two examples.

[xkaes]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/375177460775

[LFLarry]

I saw that, but since it is 35mm and I do 8x10 contact printing only, I am not sure how I could use this. I don't have an enlarger. Am I overlooking something?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/375177460775

[LFLarry]

Really nice!! I will be trying this. I just ordered some Arista Lith Dev.

As mentioned, lith printing makes a grainy print. Here are two examples.

[xkaes]

I saw that, but since it is 35mm and I do 8x10 contact printing only, I am not sure how I could use this. I don't have an enlarger. Am I overlooking something?

You could create an 8x10 texture screen by exposing 8x10 film to a 35mm texture screen -- with a macro lens -- or take an 8x10 picture of some beach sand (or any texture) using lith film -- you can vary the size of the texture by moving closer (small vs large).



https://www.123rf.com/photo_31367810...ure-macro.html

[jnantz]

Since you are making contact prints, you would have to take a picture of a texture screen and sandwich it -- but if you are exposing under an enlarger, you could put the screen in the enlarger -- focused with a lens -- for the exposure.

the problem with putting it in an enlarger is that it will enlarge the grain so it might seem be more obtrusive ( un natural ) compared to the subject of the print. contact printing on the paper always seems to be tight and look better ( small grain vs medicine ball sized grain )

[xkaes]

Of course it depends on the size of the grain in the texture screen -- that varies a lot. Same thing if you take a picture of beach sand with lith film. The higher your magnification, the larger the grain will be. You have decide what size grain you want -- you probably want several sizes to choose from -- but that's up to you.