The Variable Contrast Printing Manual is the only comprehensive resource for photographers printing with variable contrast papers. Anchell provides a wealth of techniques and information to enable photographers to achieve the best possible results, and express their unique personal vision. As in his best-selling The Darkroom Cookbook (Focal Press), Anchell has provided the reader with an easy-to-follow approach to a medium that now dominates black-and-white printing.
Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- A Brief History of Variable Contrast Papers
- Variable Contrast Papers
- Calibrating Variable Contrast Papers
- Printing with Variable Contrast Paper
- Multiple-Filter Techniques
- Split Printing
- Enlargers and Light Sources
- Fixing and Washing for Permanence
- Toning
- Appendixes--Recommended Dichroic Filtration Values for Common
- Color Enlargers
- Formulas
- Suppliers and Manufacturers
- Bibliography
- Index
- Contrast Comparison Charts
- Exposure Factor Chart
Readership: Art photographers Advanced photography students. Only comprehensive how-to manual for printing on variable contrast papers. Timely and instructive; provides a wealth of proven techniques. Invaluable reference for art photographers.
About the Author: Stephen G. Anchell has been a freelance and commercial photographer, writer, and instructor for over 25 years. His fine-art black-and-white photography has been internationally exhibited and collected. He teaches workshops and seminars privately, at universities, and for companies such as Agfa, Cachet Fine Art Paper Company, and Sinar-Bron.
His writing on photography has appeared in View Camera, Shutterbug, PIC (Great Britain), and PhotoPro magazines. He was a contributing editor to the former Camera and Darkroom magazine, and is a current contributing editor to PhotoWork and Outdoor Photographer magazines.