So far in this series I’ve only talked about ‘straight printing’, which is to say, no part of the image was locally manipulated. I tweaked exposure…
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Split Grade Printing – Darkroom Technique Part 4 – by Sroyon Mukherjee
April 27, 2020As I read and learnt more about printing, a mysterious phrase appeared on my radar – split grade (or split filtration) printing. Its advocates claim miraculous…
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Cat-and-Mouse with Exposure and Contrast – Darkroom Technique Part 3 – by Sroyon Mukherjee
April 20, 2020Part 3 is the most (only?) technical part of my ongoing series about darkroom technique. If you like technical, you’re in for some fun. If you…
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Knowing Little, Aiming High – Darkroom Technique Part 2 – By Sroyon Mukherjee
April 13, 2020In Part 1 of my ongoing series about darkroom technique, I talked about how to set up a fully-functional darkroom for black-and-white printing – for less…
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How to Build a Darkroom for £100 or Less – Darkroom Technique Part 1 – by Sroyon Mukherjee
April 6, 2020I’ve been shooting film since the late 90s; my father bought me a quirky little National 35 when I was thirteen. But I started darkroom printing…
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Understanding Shutter Speed, Aperture, Film Speed (ISO) & The Relationship Between Them
February 25, 2019I’ve thought about covering off some of the basic principles of photography a few times on this website, but often find myself coming to the conclusion…
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A Tour of my Darkroom and some notes for setting up yours – By Dan Castelli
September 14, 2018For more than 40 years, taking photographs has been more than a hobby for me. It’s how I react to the things I see around me…
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Scanning from the emulsion; getting the most out of a flatbed scanner – By David Narbecki
September 6, 2018I was asked recently my opinions around what I think is the best way to scan a large collection of slides? I replied by suggesting that…
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Tetenal Colortec C-41 Developing Kit – By Parallax Photographic
May 13, 2018Pretty much every person we meet has been told somewhere that developing black-and-white film at home is reasonable, but that developing colour film is just too…
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A little introduction to 35mm for Pinhole photography – Guest post by Alex Yates
September 10, 2017This post has been a long-time coming, I think I’ve lost count of the number of times Hamish has trolled me about writing about shooting 35mm…
