Part Two – The Histroic Process
Now I have my digital negatives printed off I am ready to
take them into the dark room but before that I had to apply liquid emulsion to
water colour paper, this light sensitive emulsion can be applied to a multitude
of surfaces, it is important to make sure I have applied an even coat to the
paper and sometimes two coats as I found out with some of my prints the detail
and colour lacked because of the uneven amount of emulsion.
Using my digital negatives to print is fairly straight
forward once the paper is painted, firstly I have to find an average time to
expose the light to the negatives so the image can transfer onto the light
sensitive paper however this will only work if emulsion to emulsion is making
contact.
From my six negatives I wanted to achieve four successful
prints but looking threw them I can only find three, I believe if I
experimented longer in the dark room I could of achieved a fourth. The image
below is my favourite the effect the liquid emulsion has given works well with
the subject I have photographed, it is very subtle and soft the colours are not
too harsh. 
Keeping with the same subject of Poland this image also
worked well with the emulsion again it is very subtle and even complimenting
the subject it is. I like the minimal detail and strong depth of field.
The third image that worked well is of a building outside
Paris Photo I chose to turn it into a negative because of the detail and
lighting, strong symmetry and the moon shining over the building made the image
eye catching making me wants to experiment with the image.
One print that turned out not as good as the others was
of Notre Dame, the reason for this is the liquid emulsion is uneven and the
brush strokes are visible making the overall print flat and ruining the print
because its destructive.
I have enjoyed working with liquid emulsion and experimenting with the technique and would like to use it again in the future especially with different materials such as wood etc.
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