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08/10/2003 Entry: "instant gratification"
I was a good boy and organized my slides, set aside new prints for the next mounting and matting session and then decided to reward myself with a little photo play. The weather's too hot, hazy and humid to make lugging a bag full of camera equipment around town. I was reading Polaroid Transfers: A Complete Visual Guide to Creating Image and Emulsion Transfers so I dug out the Daylab slide printer and a pack of Polaroid 669 film. It'd been a while since I'd made any transfers, so I started with the easiest of the image transfers, the wet process. My attempts there worked fairly well, so I got brave and tried a dry transfer. Both of these were from a color slide shot at the Farmers Market a few months ago, just a pile of apples in an old wooden crate.
In reading Carr's transfer book, I discovered that my Daylab printer could also handle negative strips as well as slides. Feeling a bit cocky from my earlier successes with the slide, I took a shot at printing an IR negative shot last winter at the train museum. With some yellow filtration to warm it and add some color, it didn't turn out half bad for a first try. This is a technique I may play with some more. Of course, the exposure and filtration can be refined quite a bit to improve the image, but for an experiment I can live with the results for now.
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All morning I have been researching the internet on image transfer ...I liked your box of apples and the wet method sems the easiest way to go....After reading everything, I am getting confused a bit..if I want to to the wet method I should but a Daylab II Slide Printer (off ebay hopefully) an emulsion transfer kit that is available would also help. It has a tray, thermometer, book...etc. But if I am using old slides I have from Europe is that all I need? Or do I need the 669 film too?
2.Also if I want to take a picture now and use it for a transfer, should I try to buy an old poloroid that uses 669 film, off ebay or what??? Lets say I want to take a black and white picture of my 20 year old daughter and use it in a photo transfer, what do I need to get to do that in addition to the Daylab II.
3. Also do you know if Daylab II or Vivitar Instant Slide Printer would be best for a novice like me???
I LOVVVE photography, but this is "new land", I have looked at these sites several times in the last year and it all looks too complex to know what to buy!
I apprecaite your help!
Sincerely, Jill
I am using my husbands computer (larger screen-lol); please email back on my email to go to my computer.Thanks again.
Posted by Jill Haglund @ 08/23/2003 01:06 PM ET
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