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O'Connor Dowse Brochure - conventional retouching from 1988

O'Connor Dowse was the first company I worked for

We created these images entirely on film, in the enlarger

First we would copy the two photos onto film, in position

Then put a rubylith mask on top & cut around the object with a tiny knife

Twice - once for the foreground, once for the background

Each element would then be exposed through its mask onto new film

We were left with a white channel to fill in round the object with dyes

If we made a mistake, it was back to the enlarger to start again...

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