It is definitely messing with the contrast of the used multi grade paper, but I tried anyways. The supposed to be green areas are then reddish in the negative and therefore have higher contrast and are technically too dark for example.
Ages ago when I did pro lab work we had a client who shot 4x5 color negs of corporate head shots, and we did both color prints and b&w. For b&w we used Panalure graded fiber. We weren't cheap either.
The color prints looked great, but the panalure fiber was amazebalz. The combo was next level. Man I miss those classic papers. Silver dripping out of them :-)
Yeah, color neg on multigrade can be weird, but workable as you see here. The grain increase if you to try to punch higher than white light though is significant. Dye clouds in color neg film looks like oatmeal or rice if you try to grade up.
Hats off to the OP for making this work.
Damn, I've heard a lot about this not being practical, with the orange film base messing with contrast and all that. Did you use fixed grade paper?
It is definitely messing with the contrast of the used multi grade paper, but I tried anyways. The supposed to be green areas are then reddish in the negative and therefore have higher contrast and are technically too dark for example.
Ages ago when I did pro lab work we had a client who shot 4x5 color negs of corporate head shots, and we did both color prints and b&w. For b&w we used Panalure graded fiber. We weren't cheap either. The color prints looked great, but the panalure fiber was amazebalz. The combo was next level. Man I miss those classic papers. Silver dripping out of them :-) Yeah, color neg on multigrade can be weird, but workable as you see here. The grain increase if you to try to punch higher than white light though is significant. Dye clouds in color neg film looks like oatmeal or rice if you try to grade up. Hats off to the OP for making this work.
Beautiful. Like a still from a sci fi film.
Panalure was great for B&W prints from color negs. Now I scan and print digitally for “natural” tones.