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30 October, 2025

Printing Live: What I Learned from Sharing the Darkroom in Real Time

By Tom Warland

Ever since I first started photography, I’ve loved the darkroom. There have been times when I’ve drifted away from it – drawn in by the convenience of digital editing, whe...

16 February, 2024

Trying Darkroom Printing for the First Time

By Ted Ayre

Well, it’s been quite a journey down the rabbit-hole of film photography! Can you believe it’s been over a year since I first started? I’ve gone from writing &...

2 February, 2024

F-Stop Printing in the Darkroom

By Ian Whitney

Although I scan all my negatives so that I can share photos online, I prefer to make prints in the darkroom. I find it to be an engaging technical craft that provides endless th...

12 April, 2022

The Joy of Small Prints – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

Big photographs are impressive. From 1950 to 1990, New York's Grand Central Terminal had a changing display of 60×18 feet (18×5.5 m) backlit transparencies. This display was a K...

7 February, 2022

Contrast and Tonality Part 3: Characteristic Curves for Film and Paper – By Sroyon

By Sroyon

Most major manufacturers of film and photographic paper release datasheets with technical details about their product. If you've ever looked at such a datasheet, you may have se...

26 January, 2022

Building a Darkroom From the Ground Up – By Katie Cooper

By Katie Cooper

Lockdown 2020 was a blessing in (a very big) disguise, as it gave me the opportunity to research, build and begin work on creating a darkroom. My passion for analogue photograp...

31 October, 2021

Analogue Upcycle – by Laura Cogan

By Laura Cogan

Here lies a tale of perseverance and victory. You see I'm a self proclaimed ideas person, it's on my CV and everything so it must be true. The unfortunate thing is I'm not so go...

25 October, 2021

Contrast and Tonality Part 2: The Curves Tool, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Contrast – By Sroyon

By Sroyon

In Part 1 of this three-part series, I used histograms of famous photographs to introduce some fundamental ideas about contrast and tonality. In this part I’ll talk about ...

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