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…
Contrast and Tonality Part 2: The Curves Tool, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Contrast – By Sroyon
October 25, 2021In 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…
Contrast and Tonality Part 1: Histograms of Famous Photographs and What They Can Teach Us – By Sroyon
September 20, 2021Let’s face it, “analysing” photos with histograms can only take us so far. A hundred years later, people may or may not look at your photographs…
3 Ways to Make Contact Sheets and What They Can Tell Us – Darkroom Technique Part 6 – by Sroyon
January 18, 2021I originally conceived my Darkroom Printing series as a five-part affair, but I figured I'll add more as I learn, especially if I find something that's…
Dodge, Burn and Other Heresies – Darkroom Technique Part 5 – by Sroyon Mukherjee
May 4, 2020So 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…