Saint John The Baptist West Window

[ian barber]

This is a photograph of the West window of Saint John Baptist church situated in Adwick Upon Dearne South Yorkshire. The window is late 13th century.

I cut down a piece of Ilford Multigrade Pearl Photo Paper, slid it into the dark-slide and exposed directly onto the paper to create a paper negative. I rated the paper at at ISO 4. It was then developed under red safelight for about 10 minutes and then stopped, fixed and dried before scanning.

 

[Digital Finger]

Lovely textures there Ian. Tha’s a technical whizz lad

 

[Elines]

Ditto

 

[Tommy]

Missed this one Ian, yes lovely tones indeed.

 

[John King]

If you had not described the method of creating the image I would not have known. It looks different to what I would have expected from film but put that down to a bit of darkroom expertise. The paper neg has handled the degree of contrast quite well - better than i would have expected.

If this is multigrade then this opens up a completely new avenue of picture taking. 1. It is a shed load cheaper than film. 2.Once you have worked out the best exposure rating, you could use different multigrade filters in front of the lens to alter the degree of contrast without altering the development time, and this without resorting to digital trickery after scanning.

 

[ian barber]

This was Ilford MG Pearl RC paper. I used to use the RC Glossy but the Pearls is less reflective. Putting a yellow filter in-front of the lens will cut down the contrast as would pre-flashing the paper either before or after the exposure.

 

[John King]

Ian I was thinking more of using multigrade filters where you should be able to get significant contrast differences, ot just a yellow filter

 

[ian barber]

If the scene is of hight contrast, a Grade 0 or even 00 may help