The underlying spirit of this blog is to share my failures in the hope that other photo-cognescenti can avoid some pitfalls. I have spent quite a few hours trying to learn the Bromoil process and I think I am now making a little progress, although there is still some way to go … Here I share my experiments with bromoil printing using Foma emulsion.
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Category: On film photography (Page 1 of 6)
I have hardly ever bothered with contact sheets. A few months ago I realised that I had made a mistake …
Continue readingJust a short post on darkroom note-taking …
Continue readingPart of pushing yourself to improve as a darkroom printer is to have your own darkroom. In this post I set out the key decisions that I took …
Continue readingNow that I have calibrated my paper speed to my light meter and my development snatch point (see here), I am now ready to look at the corners and recesses of my house. I am interested in the tonalities rather than the textures.
Continue readingHaving established my speed for Ilford Ilfospeed grade 2 paper (see here) I now want to look at the relationship between exposure and development for this paper.
Continue readingOne of the reasons for buying a large format 5×7 Walker camera was to learn the craft of paper negative photography. In my last post on paper negatives I discussed the control of contrast. However I am finding Ilford WarmTone paper a little too slow for indoor portrait work so I decided to test Ilford Ilfospeed RC De Luxe in grade 2 with a pearl finish. This post records how I got on …
Continue readingThis is the second post in my series ‘learning large format’ photography. As a beginner to large format I thought I would record my experiences. My first post discussed my reasons for getting into larger formats and my choice of kit. This post will describe the decisions I took in getting to my first sheet film image.
Continue readingHaving convinced myself that I would never get into Large Format (sheet film) photography, I finally talked myself into buying a 5×7 view camera with an additional 4×5 back. Such is life.
This new series of posts will describe how I get on with the new format for I will undoubtedly make mistakes. I don’t mind sharing these as I have no pretences to keep up and writing about them helps me to stay objective. After all making mistakes is the only way of learning anything.
In this first post I talk about the rationale for going into large format and the kit that I acquired.
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If you are like me, scanning is a bit of a pain. Never an ecstasy. However getting it right is important to some workflows. In this post I set out what works for me on black and white films, much which has been learnt through trial and mostly error …
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Scanned from Prints.
Lith: North Dakota Abandoned Farm
Lith and Bleach: Abandoned Farm, ND
Paper Negative: Trees, Galloway, Scotland
Abandoned slate mill, North Wales
Tree line, Wirral
Amazon, Berlin
Altar, Tunbridge, North Dakota
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