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20 April, 2020

Cat-and-Mouse with Exposure and Contrast – Darkroom Technique Part 3 – by Sroyon Mukherjee

By Sroyon

Part 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 dislike technical, maybe skip the ...

13 April, 2020

Knowing Little, Aiming High – Darkroom Technique Part 2 – By Sroyon Mukherjee

By Sroyon

In 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 than £100, and in a sma...

6 April, 2020

How to Build a Darkroom for £100 or Less – Darkroom Technique Part 1 – by Sroyon Mukherjee

By Sroyon

I’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 just a year and a half ago, in a...

25 February, 2019

Understanding Shutter Speed, Aperture, Film Speed (ISO) & The Relationship Between Them

By Hamish Gill

I’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 that someone else will ha...

14 September, 2018

A Tour of my Darkroom and some notes for setting up yours – By Dan Castelli

By Dan Castelli

For 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 as I go about my day. I can’t explain why I react to...

6 September, 2018

Scanning from the emulsion; getting the most out of a flatbed scanner – By David Narbecki

By David Narbecki

I 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 they should have a lab scan it and not to...

13 May, 2018

Tetenal Colortec C-41 Developing Kit – By Parallax Photographic

By Parallax Photographic

Pretty 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 tricky. But this...

9 September, 2017

A little introduction to 35mm for Pinhole photography – Guest post by Alex Yates

By Alex Yates

This 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 pinhole cameras.

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