Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:44 AM 11/30/97 -0500, ted wrote: >Donal Philby wrote: > ><<<<when using a very mild diffusion filter (so you don't see every >wrinkly, blemish and hair) using contrasty lens such as Hassy or Leica >offsets the contrast loss caused by the filter, maintaining the >richness.>>>>>> > >Hi Donal. > > blah blah blah > >Back to the darkroom, got some cellophane and wrinkled it all to hell, >flattened it out and reprinted using the wrinkled cellophane for half the >exposure between the lens and paper. You have to time this just right or >the effect is too much or not enough, anyway redid them and she looked soft >and smooth with an underlying crispness of the Summicron. > >ted A trick we I learned at Brooks, from the second unit instructor (Boris Dobro) was to "hit the enlarger" with your hand for the second half of the exposure. He called it "shaking the grain out". But it works for ugly as well. Jim