{"id":5250,"date":"2012-02-22T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=5250"},"modified":"2012-02-21T20:58:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T04:58:26","slug":"fragment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=5250","title":{"rendered":"Fragment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-5255\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/misc_BW_005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5255\" title=\"misc_BW_005\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/misc_BW_005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/misc_BW_005.jpg 400w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/misc_BW_005-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While scanning some old negatives I came across a fragment of a contact print I would have done as a teenager.\u00a0 When I was in my late teens I converted my parents camper into a dark room.\u00a0 It took quite a bit of effort to get it dark enough that I could do colour prints from slides.\u00a0 Without running water I used a large 5 gallon jug with a spout as my water source.\u00a0 I also\u00a0repourposed a heater from an aquarium to keep a constant temperature for my liquids and measured the temperature with a thermometer for wine making.\u00a0 Looking back it was a lot of effort but also a wonderful experience.\u00a0 I printed both black and white and later the more demanding colour Type R process.\u00a0 Type R was a way of printing directly from a positive slide to a positive print without the need for an inter-negative.\u00a0 I loved the black borders this gave my images.\u00a0 These papers are no longer made so this process is no longer possible, but printing from a scanned slide now\u00a0produces equally as good results with a lot less effort.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-5254\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wk_slideTyprR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5254\" title=\"Wk_slideTyprR\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wk_slideTyprR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wk_slideTyprR.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wk_slideTyprR-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can see on the right side of this 8&#215;10&#8243;\u00a0 Type R print the two holes from the clip I used to hang it to dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While scanning some old negatives I came across a fragment of a contact print I would have done as a teenager.\u00a0 When I was in my late teens I converted my parents camper into a dark room.\u00a0 It took quite a bit of effort to get it dark enough that I could do colour prints [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[64,260],"class_list":["post-5250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-processing","tag-film","tag-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5276,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}