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"Untitled" (Port Washington Harbor) © Flavio Martín Morante_2012
Port Washington, Wisconsin.
Harman-Ilford Direct Positive Paper (DPP) Glossy-4 x 5 inches.
Developed on Kodak Dektol. Pre-flashed 2.5 seconds under enlarger light.
Finally was able to do some pictures after a busy pause. Yesterday was a wonderful day in terms of weather/light. Around 6 PM after work I made my way to the lake, in order to take advantage of a great afternoon light. Also, I finally got my hands on some Ilford Direct Positive paper, which I was hesitant about it, but at the end proved to be GREAT!.
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"Untitled" (Port Washington Harbor) © Flavio Martín Morante_2012
Port Washington, Wisconsin.
Harman-Ilford Direct Positive Paper (DPP) Glossy-4 x 5 inches.
Developed on Kodak Dektol. Pre-flashed 2.5 seconds under enlarger light.
There are several things about it I do like, the main one is that the images are produced as a positive on the camera, so there is not a negative. This makes the print a truly ONE OF A KIND, which is something that it gives it a unique value since there is not way to reproduce an equal image. Also, because it captures what the camera sees the way a negative will (mirrored image), when developed everything is inverted (left to right to right to left). It says a lot about the whole idea on how we see and perceived things. I have read that if you use it for portraits, people really feel good with them, since it reflects what people see in the mirror. But that is a story for another day.
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"Untitled" (Port Washington Harbor) © Flavio Martín Morante_2012
Port Washington, Wisconsin.
Harman-Ilford Direct Positive Paper (DPP) Glossy-4 x 5 inches.
Developed on Kodak Dektol. Pre-flashed 2.5 seconds under enlarger light.
The tones and the quality of the images (which were made using a pinhole camera of aperture f231) tend to look "dream like" which it is something I really do enjoy as a result. Compared to the paper negatives, which are the ones where I started the whole self photo study, the direct positive prints have better tones and more latitude control, all of that after pre-flashing the paper, which is something I recently did learn.
This has been a really good surprise to me which I hope to keep working on. Soon I will be organizing myself to create some kind of Flickr page so I can share more pictures as portfolios. Stay tuned.
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"Untitled" (Port Washington Harbor) © Flavio Martín Morante_2012
Port Washington, Wisconsin.
Harman-Ilford Direct Positive Paper (DPP) Glossy-4 x 5 inches.
Developed on Kodak Dektol. Pre-flashed 2.5 seconds under enlarger light.
NOTE_ For some reason, these pictures look a little dark on screen on the shadow areas, something which is not as they are on the real prints.
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