Good book to start colour printing

I would like to try colour! Until now I've been a confirmed black and white user! I would like to make prints and wonder what equipment/materials/films (negative vs transparency)/books would be of use? I appreciate that this is a "large" request, but any help would be gratefully received. I have a colour enlarger head and a Nova Quad processor. Thanks in advance. Paul

Kodak used to put out a book called of all things, Printing Color

Negatives" Thats how I learned to print color. I don't know if its

still in print or not, but you should be able to find a used one.

 

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Kevin

I started with a quick 5 minute lesson by my LF teacher and a box of

glossy Fuji Crystal Archive type P, and went from there. I've also

read a few things, among them are

 

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Color Photography : A Working Manual

by Henry Horenstein, Russell Hart, Tom Briggs

ISBN 0316373168

 

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It was a pretty decent book. I also read

 

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Exploring Color Photography

by Robert J. Hirsch

ISBN 0697292304

 

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I found the Hirsch book not only dealt with the darkroom aspects of

color, but also the artistic/creative part of it.

 

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I was able to get both of them through interlibrary loan at my

university. The local community college also teaches color classes.

Two of the campuses have 20" processors. At $142 for a 3 credit 1

semester class that includes use of the B&W and color darkrooms and

chemistry, it's quite a deal, IMO.

 

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DW

The Darkroom Handbook, Revised & Updated, Michael Langford, Alfred A

Knopf, ©1984, 12th printing 2001. ISBN 0-394-72468-2 A good basic

overview of most processes, lots of images illustrating consequences.

Beginning to get dated by digital, but still a reasonable jumping off

point.

And still going strong, the Kodak Color Darkroom Dataguide, 1996, ISBN

0-87985-611-4, distributed by Silver Pixel Press, 21 Jetview Drive,

Rochester, NY 14624 John Drew, Techical Manager. (This so happens to

be Tiffen Co. Also known for Saunders/LPL :)

I'd like to recommend Tom Grimm's, "The Basic Darkroom Book (1999)."

Lots of information for both B&W and color processing and printing.

It also has a short section on digital for the sake of completeness.

In all, it's well organized and comprehensive with lots of practical

advice.

Printing color is very easy. In fact much easier than printing b&w.

The paper is also cheeper than b&w. My favorit paper is

Fujicolor Crystal Archival that has double the color permanence

of Cibacrome. Here in Iceland it is less expensive than Ilford

resincoded Multigrade. I like their luster surface since it is

almost as brilliant as their glossy but you do not have to wear

white glowes while handeling it and when put behinde glass

there is only one reflecting surface. An the rule of filtration you

dial in the color you want to get rid of or dial out its

complimentary color. Say it your print is to blue you increase the

filtration in C+M or decrease Y. Another rule; you only use two

filter colors at the same time the third only gives you neutral

density. So go and print in the darkroo there is no book to

sustitute that. Have fun!