Pre Flashing colour paper in the darkroom

[Daniel Scheel]

Hi everybody!

hope you´re having a good day.

I was shortly introduced to pre-flashing in colour prints done in the darkroom, and I was wondering if for example you have a neutral print and you pre flash it with yellow but you would want it to stay on the cooler side, would you add a bit of blue to it so the light in the image would be neutral but all the shadows would be blue?
Is that how it works?

Also how does this photographer get these dreamy kind of half blurred texture and colours in the darkroom? Could it be just plastic paper in the front of the darkroom lens for a short period of time?
Sam Rock (@samrocksamrock) • Instagram photos and videos

thanks so much and have a beautiful day!

Daniel x

 

[SoulfulRecover]

You may want to try asking over in this section of the forum: The Darkroom

Wish I could help more. Ive only ever done B&W prints

 

[webestang64]

Pre flashing, one example........ Les McLean Photography

 

[vintagesnaps]

On Instagram, who knows what may have been done to a photo... I've only done B&W too. I guess try asking the photographer how he created a particular look.