Cool! So it's a scan of an actual paper print. Keep up the good work.
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Dawid Loubser wrote:
> Haha, no John, I am using this component called a "file" from
> "a toolbox in the garage" which produced a file-out metal negative
> carrier that gives pretty 'rough' borders by allowing the enlarger
> light to shine around the negative onto the paper ;-)
>
> The image you saw had zero digital post-processing applied, it's as
> it came from the tray(s) of chemicals. What I like about the filed
> negative
> carrier, is it only works on images that were perfectly composed in-
> camera,
> as it's impossible to crop afterwards and still have this effect.
> There is
> a certain 'honesty' about such a print...
>
> (not that I am saying cropping is bad, I do it all the time, but when
> you have an image which
> you can proudly say does not need cropping to fulfill your artistic
> vision, what better
> way to show that off than a filed negative carrier?)
>
> It's ironic that you have to use special software, or half an hour in
> photoshop,
> to produce digitally similar borders I get for free just by being
> 'sloppy'
> in the darkroom... I Love it!
>
> On 21 Jul 2009, at 2:18 PM, John Hermanson wrote:
>
>> Very nice work Dawid. Are you using "sloppy borders" by Kubota
>> Image Tools?
> <snip>
>> Chris Barker wrote:
>>> Nice shots, David, especially the first one. I like the filed-out
>>> carrier and the framed effect.
>>>
>>> Chris
>
> <snip>
>
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