Photography Printing Techniques
Other techniques for Black and White Printing?
I am in my final year at school and am printing Black and White Photographs on my own. I have been doing this for about 3 years now but I am pretty much a novice when it comes to doing new things with black and white photography. Im looking for something different to do with the photographs other than using filters, textures film covers and different papers. I have done the colour pens as well. Are there any other ways to present a black and white photograph? I love my black and white and would like to learn more about other ways to enhance or just play around with. Any information will be great thanks. BTW: Im talking about the real deal film photography not digital.
Have you ever made a paper negative? Basically you make a positive image (regular print), fix it and let it dry and then place it on top of a piece of un-exposed paper and (like a contact sheet) expose it to light and then process the paper. You are making a negative image that you can in turn use to make more positive prints by exposing like a contact sheet. You can manipulate the development of either the negative or positive image to create unique images. I used to do this and solarize the image and then make 2nd, 3rd or even 4th generation images that were very cool. They would look like an image that was half solarized and half positive.
I would also make my own BW transparencies by shooting graphic arts film and using a slide duplicator. You can make some pretty good postives if you develop the film in paper developer for about 2 or 3 minutes and then stopping and fixing normally.
I did the same thing by putting a slide or neg into my enlarger and shooting it onto 4×5 sheet film and then developing the film making a large format negative to work with.
There is always trying your hand at posterizations using graphic arts film and making three negs and three positives and then sandwiching them all together.
You can also trying cross processing slide film in black and white chemicals. You can do this with kodachrome film. Just expose and process like black and white. Toss the chemicals after processing though as part of the kodachrome emulsion will contaminate the developer. You will get a rather crude looking black and white negative.
These are just a few that I can remember doing when I was really active in the darkroom.
The best paper for making prints from paper negs was Uniclor fiberbase papers (which hasn’t been made in quite a number of years). Ilford fiber base paper should work well.
Also, try using camera filters under your enlarger like a fog filter. It creates unique looking photos.
Hope that gives you some ideas!
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