Digital BW, The Print

Manipulating contact prints was nothing unusual.
I owned an old contact printer I used for multi 8x10 output for
commercial use back in the late sixtys. It had a special shelf between
the light source and negative platen that was used to do crude dodging
using pieces of crinkled cellophane or tissue, red cell material etc.
It worked very well indeed and had the major advantage of being
perfectly repeatable. I used to file notes of placement and materials
with the negs for future reference and need.

Regards
Duane

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, J Vee
<j.vee@g...> wrote:
> Cole Weston told me what a problem it was to dodge and burn exactly when
> printing some of those prints, while contact printing.  Maybe I am
mistaken,
> but I get the impression from the thread that some feel it was a
³simple²
> contact print.  I am not sure, but I think he may also have used the
> neg(dodge-burn) - pos (manipulate) -Neg (manipulate) which allows a
> ³perfect² copy negative for contact printing (something I commonly
still do)
> J Vee  
> 
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