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Archival:
Archival means suitable for long-term storage. It usually refers to products such as matte board, sleeves or storage boxes that will be in contact with your prints or film. We ship all of our prints using archival materials.
Archival Processing:
Archival processing simply means that your film or prints are processed and washed so that maximum life can be expected from the product. Processing archivally is time consuming for the printer but ultimately gives you a product that will last for generations to come. Our standard archival practices for processing B&W film or prints includes strict time/dilution control during the fixing stage (this makes certain that all residual silver is removed from the emulsion while not allowing chemical impurities in the fixer to saturate the materials) followed by a bath of hypo clear to eliminate the fixer. After the chemical baths, a temperature controlled wash removes all residual chemicals and prints are tested with a hypo test prior to drying.
Burning and Dodging:
A technique for adding or subtracting light to selected parts of a photograph to either lighten or darken the selected area. This controls brightness as well as local contrast. If you believe that your print needs burning and dodging in specific areas, please mark the print or negative sleeve with parallel diagonal lines for areas to be made darker and circles for areas to be made lighter. If no directions are given, we will use our best judgment.
Contrast:
The range of tonality in a print, negative or chrome. It is simply the difference between the lightest and darkest areas of a print. High contrast prints have brighter highlights and darker blacks whereas low contrast prints have a more compressed tonal range with lighter shadow and/or darker highlights.
Local Contrast:
The amount of contrast or tonal range between adjoining parts of a photograph. It is possible to have a high local contrast in a low contrast print and vice versa.
Contrast Masking:
A technique used to control (lower) the contrast in all parts of a print.
Dynamic Range:
Another term for contrast.
Contact Sheet:
A print made from all the film on a roll made by having the film 'contact' the paper giving a 1:1 reproduction of the images.
Fiber Based B&W print:
A B&W print with the emulsion laid on high quality Fiber Based paper.
RC B&W Print:
A B&W print with the emulsion laid on a piece of resin-coated paper, which gives it a plastic-like feel.
Ilfochrome Print:
A direct positive print made from a transparency, specifically on Ilfochrome products. (There are other products that are direct prints from transparencies, but none with this quality)
Type-C Print (Ektacolor or RA-4):
A print made from a color negative on Kodak color papers. (RA-4 and Type -C prints refer to prints from negatives on any paper)
Transparency:
Another term for slide, chrome or positive.
Internegative:
A negative made by duping from a transparency. The internegatives can then be printed on Type-C or B&W paper. Type-C prints have lower contrast than Ilfochromes and the Internegative process will reduce sharpness and color saturation.
Cropping:
Removing one or more edges of the image frame while projecting the image for printing.
Refer to our border guide on the
placing an order
page for more information.
Full Frame:
A full frame print is one where the whole image is printed with no cropping. Because of the difference in height to width ratio of film formats and paper sizes, this results in uneven borders on the top/bottom vs. the sides of the print. See our film format guide for more information.
Refer to our border guide on the
placing an order
page for more information.
Borders:
The area around the printed image that is white when printed from a negative and black when printed from a positive.
Refer to our border guide on the
placing an order
page for more information.
Borderless:
A print with no borders, said to bleed on all four sides (usually involves cropping part of the image).
Refer to our border guide on the
placing an order
page for more information.
Bleed:
When an image is printed to the edge of a piece of paper, it is said to bleed to the edge.
Toning:
A way of chemically treating a B&W print to change its color or enhance its archival characteristics.
Push/Pull Processing (B&W):
Pushing or pulling film is simply extending or contracting the length of time that the film is in the developer. Unlike E-6 processing of chromes, B&W Push/Pull does not change the speed of the film but rather expands or contracts the contrast range of the film. When shooting under high contrast light, ask for film to be pulled. Ask for the film to be pushed if the light was low in contrast. When in doubt, it is best to have the film processed at the normal development time and to have the image manipulated in the printing stage.
Glossy Surface:
Glossy paper has a shiny or glossy surface.
Pearl Surface:
Pearl surface paper is slightly textured. It is less prone to fingerprints and surface marks (not available in Ilfochrome).
Hand Processed:
A print that is hand processed is not put through a machine. It is a custom print all the way. Hand processing B&W film and prints gives us ultimate control over the process. Due to strict temperature and time tolerances of color materials, hand processing is not an option for satisfactory results.
Match Print:
A match print is a print that has already been made, of which you would like an exact duplicate or would like modified by us. If you have a match print, send it along with your print order.
Proof Print:
This term usually refers to prints that come from your local mini lab. They are most often used to give an idea of image content, especially if you have a few shots of the same image, to show cropping instructions or base color corrections on. It is almost exclusively for prints from negative, but proof prints can be made from slides (Type-R prints).
Rush service:
Sometimes you need a print made quickly. If this means we need to modify the workflow in the lab to accommodate your needs, a rush charge will be applied.
AZO Dyes:
These are extremely stable and saturated dyes used in Ilfochrome materials. The color purity of these dyes is what makes Ilfochrome prints as stunning as they are.
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