eugene_anikin

<p>Yes, I have made my own photographic paper, and it's not very difficult. It does take some practice to make clean coating though. Another, more practical, reference for you: http://www.thelightfarm.com/<br> On your questions:</p> <p>> I realize that exposing directly to paper requires much longer exposures, but could it be done?</p> <p>Yes, it can be done. You just need to make faster emulsion for that. #2 is faster emulsion of the two.<br> <br /> > Recipe #1 is applied to canvas so I assume that paper could be used just as easily, but the resultant image is pretty rough and I'm not sure if that's due to the canvas or the emulsion soup.</p> <p>It's due to the canvas. This slow emulsion is very fine grained. However, it is also very slow, as in 15-30 seconds contact prints under the table light. If you use that in camera, the exposure time will be in hours. Now that you mention, I have got some left over chloride emulsion in the fridge. I think I'll try it in my 4x5 just for the laughs :)</p> <p>> Recipe #2 yields a much cleaner image, but the instructions call for coating <em>glass</em> and I don't know if it'd work on paper just as easily.</p> <p>Sure, it will work. But see Allen's post - you'll get a negative. Of course, you could try to reverse process it, but I promise you, *that* will be challenging since these emulsion formulas don't have a hardener and are very soft and fragile. You are better off making a negative on a transparent substrate (try Grafix Dura-Lar Wet Media film) and then contact printing it to a photo paper. Good luck, you are into a lot of fun! Once you get your first home-made photo paper print, you'll be hooked. It's that beautiful!</p>