No, this is not about the Adobe DNG file format. It is about merging a native digital image into the analog wet darkroom flow.
Sort of like scanning in reverse!
The flow goes like this:
- Generate a digital image using your Pentax dSLR
- Modify the digital positive to create a digital negative:
- Invert the image
- Flip the image
- Apply specialized curve manipulation corrections to create a properly balanced monochrome negative of the original
- Convert the digital negative to an analog negative using transparent stock and an ink jet printer
- Contact print the analog negative on traditional silver-based stock in a wet darkroom
Advantages to this sort of process?
- Wider range of photo-sensitive papers and other materials
- Potential for better permanence of the final print
- Access to legacy and alternative printing processes such as "Carbon Printing"
Here are a couple of resources:
Digital Negatives at AlternativePhotography.com
Digital Negatives
Steve
Last edited by stevebrot; 03-16-2010 at 09:59 PM.