Making
prints with Black Boarders:
By
filing out the negative carrier so as a boarder section of the negative
outside the image is projected down onto the paper, a print can
be created with a black boarder. Generally prints with this black
boarder define the total frame of the negative and the device can
help visually contain images where there are white areas at the
edge of the image.
Image without Black boarders around print |
Image with Black boarders around print |
The
size of the boarder depends on how much is cut out of the negative
carrier, and some photographers cut enough so the print shows the
frame numbers etc. imprinted on the edge of the film. Using a glass
negative carrier larger than the format size can also allow the
printing of black boarders. Be careful with the choice of easel
and the framing as some with beveled edges will reflect the light
of the bevel back down onto the paper and tend to fog the edge of
the image. Four bladed easels with flat blades are beast to over
come this problem.
For
the Codes of Survival project I printed all the photographs full
frame showing the boarder outside the image frame. While defining
the full frame of the negative it also visually contained the image
inside the other photogram component and prevented any white areas
on the edge of the print blending with the white boarder between
the photograph and the photogram.