Darkroom sessions

[k0diak]

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[Verticoastro]

Practice is the most important thing but the NAFA course was focusing on the practice (as of do this do that, repeat a few times) but doesn't teach why to do things (the thinking process) at all (and thus most students won't be able to proceed alone), let alone theory (process control, chemistry... Etc) or more advanced topics. I think could have been more efficient but I guess for most students it's just one of the modules, don't care so much.

What would be nice is a second step: lots of practice, weekly assignment to do on your own, critique and tips to improve. Could also get in theory a bit, but that can be done alone from books.

I agreed too... Most of my peers when on to digital and I'm the only few who still shooting BW and doing everything analog. I'm a part time student at NAFA in Basic Photography. The course is about 6 month. I totally enjoy the BW lesson more then digital after completed the course. Of course after the course, those little details are from the masters that I had met during the darkroom sessions. they give me lot of advices on developing and techniques. I have show them my work to get critics from them too...

 

[Verticoastro]

Darkroom Session- Printing 4x5 negatives onto 12x16" FB papers. Very productive today. Building up my BW portrait portfolios... Another few more session to go...

 

[Verticoastro]

Dark Room Session- enlarging 4x5 black and white film onto 12x16" Ilford FB papers. Still have a few more portrait to go...

Notices that using flash lights give a better negatives. It become easier to print then natural light exposed negatives.

 

[Verticoastro]

Dark Room Session- Enlarging 4x5 negatives to 12x16" Ilford MGIV RC papers. Also, printing previous family portrait that require to further enlarge from to 12x16" prints and some landscape portfolio.



















Still have 12 pieces of 4x5 film need to develop from the last weekend portrait shoot.






Also, developed some paper positives from the recent Large format outing...

 

[Verticoastro]

Film Processing- just develop a batch of 4x5 from the last weekend portrait shoot. Will be doing some printing in the darkroom next week...

 

[Verticoastro]

Darkroom session- Printing a recent portrait session from 4x5 negatives onto papers of different size...

 

[zguy]

nice job! hv you try printing 20x24 yet? i just visited Sebastião Salgado exhibition. His megs size prints really have an impact.
我们输人不输阵！

 

[Verticoastro]

I saw his exhibitions too, very impressive... My friend told me that those are digital prints not analog prints. I would want to go bigger prints ... For now, all my personal prints will be 12x16" for now.

For 20x24" and onwards, I need to check with Analog film lab and also a system to file large prints...

 

[Verticoastro]

Dark room session- printing some of my street photos 135 negatives into RC 12x16" papers...

 

[Verticoastro]

Darkroom Session- printing TriX400 negative onto 12"x16" RC papers. Love the black uneven borders and the film grains from a small format negatives exposed in M2/Summaron 35mm f3.5

 

[Verticoastro]

Darkroom session- Printing 135 negatives to 8x10 FB and 12x16 RC papers

 

[keechoon]

Darkroom session- Printing 135 negatives to 8x10 FB and 12x16 RC papers


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That looks like a RH Designs timer, is it?

 

[Verticoastro]

That looks like a RH Designs timer, is it?

I not too sure about the brand.

 

[zguy]

yeah that is a RH Design enlarger timer. Based on the fstop printing method, the timer will help you get a decent first print easily. You can also use it to control the timing required for burning and dodging.

 

[keechoon]

Ahhh... no wonder look familiar. Recently gotten the Analyzer and took me a few sessions to fully understand how it works. After that, it really enable fast printing. I find the f-stop method very useful too.

 

[Verticoastro]

Darkroom session

 

[zk-diq]

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[Verticoastro]

Dark Room Session- Printing 135 negatives to 12"x16" RC papers. Some lesson learn, never never use a doubtful pre mix developer. Wasted one paper doing so. If in doubt use a fresh one always...

 

[zk-diq]

Many things to play, you can control contrast via CC filter if you are using ilford paper, you can dodge and burn, or make shadow mask/highlight mask, expose your image within tonal range, bigger the negative better and easier to go about.
you can tone your print, add texture with halftone screen, sabattier effect, solarization, posterisation, litho derivation, multiple image control, Bas relief print,selective development.
almost all effect you see in photoshop is from analog way.