mike_ricca

<p>I'm looking to create my own photo paper for a personal project and had a question or two about the process.<br> In my searching I've found two recipes (<a href="http://jhartnett.gawsolutions.us/diy-projects/chemical/77-homemade-photo-emulsion.html"><strong>one</strong></a>, <a href="http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/Emulsion/emulsion.html"><strong>two</strong></a>) for DIY emulsion and was just wondering — could I take my homemade emulsion, coat paper with it, and then expose directly onto the paper (likely with a LF camera)?<br> I realize that exposing directly to paper requires much longer exposures, but could it be done?<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.<br> 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.<br> Does anyone here have any experience with making their own photo paper and/or directly exposing an image to said paper? How did it turn out?<br> Thanks!</p>

<p>Tim</p> <p>I actually didn't use A3. I have no idea what European sizes measure out to and the box didn't mention A3 so I just went with custom size. And yeah, it could well be a paper size / margin issue, but at the same time I used identical print settings in Photoshop and got it right on the first try so I'm just gonna stick to that for now. At $1.20 a sheet, I don't really feel like experimenting in LR when PS works fine. I'll just use LR for my 8.5x11 printing. :)</p> <p>- mike</p>