Mishaps in the Darkroom Part 1
A couple of weeks ago during one of my darkroom sessions, I decided to do an enlargement of a black
dark room photography
How different a photo can look from basic scanning to printing a copy of it in the darkroom
I suppose it’s quite obvious that there will be differences in a photo from being scanned onto a computer compared
Brighton Community Darkroom
In some of my previous blog posts I talked about taking a darkroom photography course at Varndean College in Brighton
Contrast Filters – Black and White Dark Room Photography
Last week I had the chance to try out a contrast filter for developing a photo during my black and
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My Contact Sheet Obsession
Back in July I took an adult education course in Black and White Darkroom Photography (which I’ve written about in
Dark Room Photography Part 4
Yesterday was my fourth lesson in learning about dark room black and white photography. I was quite excited because I knew this lesson would involve making an enlargement of one of my negatives. I had already decided on the negative I wanted to initially try which was a picture I had taken of one of my cats who is a Silver Tabby using my circular fisheye lens which was attached to a 28mm lens on my Pentax K1000. I liked the fact this picture had my shadow in it and the white walls and patterned tiles in my garden also made the picture more interesting. First of all I had to make a sample sheet once I had decided on the size of the enlargement. In this lesson I unfortunately picked an enlarger with a temperamental digital timer so if pressed slightly wrong, the image wouldn’t expose for the full second which was annoying. I set my first sample sheet
