Film Developing: Forte Paper

Video Transcript

"The paper I'm holding in my hand is made by a company called Forte, or Fortesio. This paper is kind of hard to find nowadays but an absolutely beautiful fiber based paper. And again, back to talking about papers, when you look it will say Polywarmtone which means that you can use it with filters. Now when you see certain papers of this caliber, they used to come graded. In a grade zero to five. Nowadays it's a lot more, you're going to find a poly, which means that you can print with these filters rather than a graded paper. There is some debate among photographers and printers, whether graded paper is better or multi-grade, or poly-grade. Basically, I don't know I think that pretty much you're going to save money when you print with a multi-grade paper than buying numerous grades of paper, which are actually pretty hard to find anyway. But this paper is a great combination with the Dectol that I talked about before and it will have these very, incredibly subtle different looks that you almost have to experiment but when you see them they make a huge difference."