New Papers

My first attempt to print on the new papers, as described in my Febuary 18 post, was with the infrared negatives from the photographs I'd taken of Rachael.  Unfortunately, both papers I tried were too slow to be useful in printing the Konica negatives.  Expoure times ranged from 7 to 9 minutes at f4.  Granted that the negatives were somewhat dense, that's still a very long time.  In contrast, exposure times with Flexicon were 110 seconds at f4, a difference of at least two stops.  These results were unusual in that the Slavich Unibrom FB 160 was described by Freestyle as cold toned and the Fotokemika Emaks K-888 FB as neutral toned.  Normally, only warm toned papers require such long exposures.

I did like the look of these papers from what I saw of them and I intend to try working with them again.  But they both seem more suited for straightforward photojournalism and street photography than for fine arts work.  I still want to get prints of the infrared negatives and probably will try next working with liquid emulsion or else making enlarged negatives for platinum prints.