Category: On film photography (Page 2 of 8)

Photographic chemistry 2

4 July, 2021 / Sidewayseye / 0 Comments

This post looks at the chemistry behind developing a film negative from the latent image stage to fixation.

Photographic chemistry – the latent image

3 July, 2021 / Sidewayseye / 0 Comments

It was inevitable that at some point I would turn to making my own developers and photographic paper. Why? It comes from a basic need to understand in some depth all of the steps involved in making a picture. This first post of a new series looks at some of the basic chemistry involved in producing a film negative. Later in the series I will look at some of the film/developer combinations that I am beginning to use.

Bromoil portraiture

1 July, 2021 / Sidewayseye / 0 Comments

Quite a while ago I attempted a Bromoil portrait which ended up heavy-handed. I have now managed a more delicate picture …

Bromoil investigations

20 June, 2021 / Sidewayseye / 2 Comments

A while back I acquired 15 sheets of Finesse bromoil paper. This post looks at how I handled it for Bromoil.

A little Catechol, mostly Lith as second bath

Two bath printing from paper negatives

3 May, 2021 / Sidewayseye / 0 Comments

Following my posts about contrast control at the paper negative development stage, I now look at print development techniques …

Update on default film/developer

26 March, 2021 / Sidewayseye / 0 Comments

A while ago I wrote a post about the film/developer combinations that I favour. I’ve had quite a bit of darkroom experience in the last 18 months during the lock-down here in England and I’m now in a position to revise my default combinations.

Drag bleaching

29 January, 2021 / Sidewayseye / 0 Comments

During these times of restricted travel, I’m taking the opportunity to teach myself new darkroom skills. Yesterday I looked at drag bleaching …

Experiments with Bromoil printing using Foma emulsion

17 January, 2021 / Sidewayseye / 7 Comments

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.