{"id":5154,"date":"2012-05-24T20:37:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T20:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/?p=5154"},"modified":"2019-08-30T12:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T12:55:36","slug":"quick-contact-prints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/quick-contact-prints\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick contact prints.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had an hour or two spare this evening after a digital job at MMU. Steph was working till 7 so I popped to the studio for a quick visit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got some old packs of photo paper in a plan chest so thought I&#8217;d do some quick contact prints from the Temperance whole plate negs.<\/p>\n<p>Now I know some purtists will argue a wet plate neg has to be <em>intensified<\/em> and printed as an albumen print etc. Thats all well and good but with modern papers a <em>bright ambrotype<\/em> will do the trick just as well.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly Ilford Ilfobrom Galerie FB Grade 2&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IlfordG2.jpg\" alt=\"IlfordG2\" title=\"IlfordG2\" width=\"504\" height=\"406\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IlfordG2.jpg 504w, https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IlfordG2-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then Ilford Ilfobrom Galerie FB Grade 3&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IlfordG3.jpg\" alt=\"IlfordG3\" title=\"IlfordG3\" width=\"504\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IlfordG3.jpg 504w, https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IlfordG3-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And finally I dug out some Fomatone MG Matt Warmtone&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Foma.jpg\" alt=\"Foma\" title=\"Foma\" width=\"504\" height=\"404\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Foma.jpg 504w, https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Foma-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I really like the look of these, no idea why I haven&#8217;t contact printed plates previously. 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