How Film Is Developed, Scanned And Printed At London’s BEST Film Lab
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- čas přidán 1. 03. 2024
- This episode explores my entry into the world of film photography and how a top laboratory, in our case, Bayeux in London, operates today. We see how the pros get it done, the whole process from developing to drum scanning. Also I print one of my photographs in their dark room, which is the first time I’ve done it myself, and was a lot of fun. A huge thanks to the team at Bayeux. Enjoy!
Bayeux: www.bayeux.co.uk
Alan's Instagram - @alan_schaller
Directed by Biz Thompson - Insta @biz_thedirector. - Zábava
Protect Richard at all costs. He’s a national treasure!
The man’s a legend when I used to print my own photos the stop bath hated me stung Like a twat and hit right up my nose. These days I just dev negs and use water as a stop bath
He's an international treasure, I would say.
Exactly my thought.. Master of the craft and such a modest soul.
Richard is a legend.
When I left school I was very lucky to start in the local evening newspaper photography dept. Spend 3 years in the darkroom learning the "trade" then moved over to being a staff press photographer. The darkroom technician teaching me was an "old hand" commercial photographer, he was insisitant the print had to be commercial standard, even though it would end up in a low res final image after transfering onto a lead print plate for a lettrapres printing machine..... I was brought up on Rolliflex TLR 120's and then 35mm, using Kodak Tri X. Happy days. lots of memories. The skills I learned are now just as important now I use DSLR's and a computer. I use Silver Efex for my mono images. Love your videos Alan.
Sounds like great training. I use Silver Efex too, really great tool when you know how. Thanks Richard
68-1969 I had learned in My own darkroom !!!!! Then 1970 to a local newspaper,,, 70 1/2,, at the 5th largest newspaper in USA....... 99% of the time I could make on ONE PIECE of paper a Gallery Quality Print (75% of the photogs,,, the same)......... Anybody Could Do It !!!!!!!
Wow you are really modest. :-) @@johnyoung1606
Yes, I printed in a newspaper darkroom too at the start of my career. When you’re printing day in, day out you could judge the timing by eye and be spot on first time 99% of the time.
@@Tom_CZcams_stole_my_handle I am sure that there a few of us left,, I was very young when I started (17yo)54 years ago) I was the first of a new Youngish crew,, The not so friendly Photogs were much older (late 40s - 70s) ,,, Most of My Youngish co-workers are gone or not doing much,, and who knows when the bad day will come for us... Good to hear from a kindred spirit :) :) :)
Loved the video. Brings back memories from childhood. My dad had a commercial film lab for 30 plus years until he passed. I just happened to pick a different profession and the business passed with him. My daughter has one of his original Nikons and loves to shoot film. I started again to shoot film and developing some rolls at home. Glad film never died ❤
This is probably the best film I’ve watched in several years.
I’ve learned more in 36 minutes than in 35+ years of messing around with photography.
The team in that lab, their knowledge of the kit and the process, make every single penny of lab work worth it - I now feel better about my half frame prints costing a fortune at Harman Labs!
Sympathetically and respectfully filmed, I could watch masters of their work all day.
Those of us fortunate to be in our 65+ yrs age , learned photography accomplishing these tasks in a bathroom or closet. Scanning film only recently (20 yrs ago) simplified the process. Still very viable. Glad you are enjoying the process. I think I paid 10k usd for my Imacon Flextight scanner in 2004. Drum scans would have been the ultimate at that date, way too expensive to own.
I could literally smell this video. Great work Alan, really enjoyed this episode.
Fifty years of experience in b&w printing Vs a few hours; I admire Allan's natural talent in photographic sense by having a commendable remark from the master printer that it was an "acceptable" first time print ever and only those who are in the same trade know what it exactly means an "acceptable" print of a photograph! Thanks for the priceless video Allan! ❤❤
My very first job at 19 was working at a film processing plant. I had to start work at 6:00am. I'd be in a little light proof room, and I'd spool the 35mm film into this huge Pako processor and the film would come out dry so the printers would come to work at 8:00 and print up the images. later in life I had a good darkroom and a very nice variable contrast enlarger. (a Saunders). This brings back some great memories!! Thank you for sharing! Joe
There's something extra special about making a darkroom print - time to get yourself a home darkroom lol! Mine is in my shed 😀
I've not developed my own B&W for many years and it was good to watch you go through the process. Its inspired me to revisit 35mm home developing.
Enjoyed the video. Thanks for pointing out that film also requires a post process, people often forget editing has always been part of photography
Cheers ☺️🙏🏼
Editing in post has never been a problem but the norm. Weston did it, Adams did it, we all did it. Putting things there that were not there in the first place or spending hours photoshopping a file just to make something out of it is what is not acceptable. With a negative, you can never put things that were there not in the first place. Without editting there would be no photography.
Fantastic video, I had no idea there were so many techniques behind printing negatives, much less that such an old scanner would be of such higher quality than a more current one. Thank you very much, without a doubt a good amount of information to retain!!
Glad you enjoyed. Thanks 🙌🏼
Thanks for all this information. When I was young I used to print at home too....A big hello from Italy Riccione( Rimini)
Wow, that takes me back. You are spot on, Alan. Editing is half the fun of photography.
Absolutely loved every second of this. Great presentation all round and Richard is a gem, so understated but so cool.
It's a real pleasure to see the skill that goes into keeping film photography alive. I just never really thought about the creative input of the printers who are trying to interpret what the they photographer is going for. Thanks for the videos so far. I've honestly found them a real inspiration for getting more into street photography.
This is my first Alan Schaller experience. QUITE NICE
The printer mentioned about the print going brown if not thoroughly washed, I have a framed image of a Kathmandu street scene I printed from a trip in 1997, its going brown and I could not find out why. Now I know, Thanks to you both, ill have to try and reprint it I think my old enlarger is still in the attic. Great video
How I learned. When I was 12 to 15 years old I had a completely manual Kodak film camera and then access to a darkroom so I could develop and print my own photos. A good way to learn about photography!
Alan really created the best recent CZcams channel ever. Every video is so good.
Thank you for sharing a wonderful experience! You did very well on your first one!
This is crazy, I just subbed today and I exclusively shoot film and even looked up in your channel if you had any film videos. And bang you upload one!!!
Haha good timing! Thanks for the sub 🙏🏼
Discovery of Film! Seeing a print 'coming up' in developer, pure black magic! ! Romance of film! I was a Photojournalist, doing ALL my own processing. I edited my earlier reply. Go for it! I wrote different! I re-thought why I STILL shoot film. The blacks so easy! The look of film so different from Digital. Neither one the winner! Yet going on a shoot, no batteries reqd. a few rolls, 2 lenses, a tiny bag! Here in YT, the love of outdated technology, that still breathes! Your followers and subscribers will multiply! Bravo!
This is the best video I’ve seen on darkroom printing! Love the channel!
I worked for 28 years in a more "industrial" Kodak lab. It was hard graft working nights to get the pics back to the shops the following morning with limited job satisfaction. The only bonus were the more ....intimate shots! In peak times it was a max of 50.000 films processed and printed in a matter of 10 hours. Wish I could have worked in a place like this.
Hello, Alan: It's interesting to see your journey from digital to film. I learned photography with film and darkroom printing so I did the journey in the opposite direction. All the best on your photographic journey with film.
Thank you. It’s film alongside digital I think. There’s a time for each ☺️🙏🏼
Amazing to see “old” technology still being used today to create high quality images that can hold up against digital. Another quality episode from you & your great team Alan. Really enjoy you taking us along, showing us techniques & behind the scenes. Great depth to your channel.
Hi Alan, Andrew here in Ottawa Canada 🇨🇦 originally from the Uk😊. Thanks for creating and sharing this video, having grown up in the film era, moved to digital and now shoot film again plus still digital, this video presents the reality of the art of photography
Thank you
Talent is truly remarkable. In all departments.
Great video as always. Many flashbacks to the days when I did my own B&W film developing and printing (early 1980's).
Great video, fascinating process and the dodging and burning sequence was great. More like this please Alan.
Great video. This is the first time I've seen the process from start to print - great to have that perspective. Thanks, Alan!
Excellent video. Thank you
Excellent. Love that you’re shooting film!
Brilliant. Thank you. Now I understand the meaning of dodging and burning for the first time. What a craft.
This was great. I would love to see you feature more film photography on your channel in the future - sharing more details about the things you've learned as it applies to your approach when using film. It's been decades since I last had access to a darkroom. The more videos that I watch like this, the more the temptation grows to setup up a small darkroom at home. When you wind up producing a quality print using the techniques shared here it is just so incredibly satisfying.
Tempted, but I can't pull the trigger.
Loved Richard! He’s absolute gold
Great to see all that Alan!
Well done again and very happy to see you using film. Love that stuff (as long as they work..had few times issues with loading the film, dust, moon shaped errors, undeveloped patches and more during my 10 years homedarkroom “career”). But: film is gorgeous at the end 👍
Thank you very very very much for sharing very big respect from Symi island 🏝️ Greece 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hope you enjoy! 🎞️
Fantastic video don't stop ❤️
Alan this is brilliant. I great insight into the entire process. Really enjoyed it and the team at Bayeux seem a bunch a legends!
That's really fantastic. Thanks for posting it.
The best video ever! Wow! Thanks Alan!
This was easily the best video so far. A lot of ground was covered in an easy to understand manner. Would appreciate the equivalent for digital process with pitfalls of printing. Also possibly hybrid process for silver/platinum prints from digital original. Though suppose Platinum might not suit many of your images.
Super interesting. Thank you for the 4 months of doing this and showing the process of this.
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Informative and fun. Thanks for making this episode
I have shot over 100 rolls of B&W film in the past year! I developed all of them at home with several different manufactures of developers & other chemicals. I shot film in the beginning in photo school here in the US. Last time I shot film was 10+ years ago and it is really cool to be back into it! I have over 60 refrigerator right now from a lot of manufactures! Love your videos, CHEERS!
I love your humor! Not only is your photography style unique, but this is as well.
Love Bayeux ❤. Simply The Best.
Great job, Alan.
Fantastic video, Alan...
Thanks for sharing this video.
🖤🤍
Great episode! Pros doing their work
What a fabulous presentation!
Fascinating 🤩
Great video! Started shooting film about a month ago. It’s so much fun!
Awesome episode outstanding craftsmen throughout especially Richard Printer top bloke. When I was around 13 my dad came home with a big box of tricks he took a photo of my sister and me he disappeared under the stairs emerging a while later with a shiny 10x8 black and white glossy print from that day to this, I’m now 59, photography is all I’ve ever wanted to do it’s my day job my hobby my CZcams content it’s my love and passion nothing comes close. Loved this episode cheers
Nicely done, relaxed presentation and a bit of humour That shot is great too.
This video is brilliant, the printing section with Richard is fantastic!!
A quite acceptable video!! Great work, interesting to get an insight to the printing process
Richard is hero hero here. Film and digital can never be the same! If you insist then you are not a real photographer.
Great video Alan... Thanks
great alan ... really enjoyed the whole process ... richard is an un sung hero ... .. .
Mesmerizing
Fascinating video. Thanks
Thank you
Amazing ! Thank you
Booked in for its spa day 🤣 your videos are the best 🤙🏻
This was an excellent video to watch, really enjoyed to see all the different processes. It's like going back in time 25 years, when film was the only option!!
This was a treat! I haven’t worked in a wet darkroom since my college days in 1981 or so. Makes me want to find a community darkroom. Cheers Alan!
I have developed and printed black and white over the years. Never very good at it but it was such a creative thing to do and watching the dodging and burning process done professionally was amazing. I hope the craft continues into the future. Must dig out the F3!
Great video.
Good show, Alan!
It's official. I'm in love with this channel.
Richard is a certified master printer (and then some) IMO. And not that it matters I made my living as a photographer for decades 20 years of which was all B&W film and I always printed my own work.
Great. We can take a look into the magic room !
Great stuff ! Takes me back 60 plus years to my little darkroom under the stairs and home made enlarger with old camera lens ! The processing and printing was more than half the fun.I had a negative of clouds to use when the picture neg.was of clear sky. Straight out of camera ? We must not forget how things were so much more "hands on". Wish I still had my Leica 111A.Cheers from Chichester, U.K.
Amazing!!!!
Thank you
0:31 - just love the shirt info
Impressionnant. De véritables artistes.
Richard the magician ! A Pure Wizard ! we love him ! ..
this is awesome
That was interesting. Thank you
Cool stuff, started printing last year, one of the most enjoyable things about photography in my opinion :)
Thank you Alan fir showing traditional printing and , putting those that believe straight out of camera is the correct way to process a shot , it exacerbates me know end when i hear this, and im coming from years in the darkroom. Also at the end of the video how do you really view a print thats a significant factor in how a viwed shot is impacted. Now though happy with digital 😊
Just discovered you, amazing photography and technique.
Fantastic episode! I can't believe I have been shooting film longer than Alan Schaller. Not expecting to outshine you any time soon though. Would love a 35 mm print to go with metropolis! 😃
Un video muy interesante.Enhorabuena Alan. Un saludo desde España.
God bless you Richard you are a legend.
Comme chaque vidéo, un grand moment de photographie que vous nous partagez (et qui passe trop vite) ! Merci mille fois Alan :)
about with my English (and Google ^^) : Like every video, a great moment of photography that you share with us (and which passes too quickly) ! Thanks a million Alan :)
ASMR starts at 14:41. What a treat seeing a lab process end-to-end
The image of young woman between two backs, has haunted me! Alan, you area minimalist! me too. Go for Analogue! Film is your friend! Look forward to many more images, non! Photographs! All the best!
Memories. Really enjoyable video. Incidentally, just taken delivery of Metropolis. Thank you.
Richard must have very impressive skin. I spent three years ignoring tongs, using my bare hands in black and white chemistry, and also colour.... had roughly 7 years of serious skin issues on my hands afters. Silver builds up in the skin and is actually really detrimental to your skin health and can lead to all sorts of other issues. In my case skin would just come of my hands, the moment I started to sweat. Wear gloves. Richard has a superpower. Don't assume everyone has it. Also,it takes forever to get the smell of fixer off your fingers.
By the way, nice print!
"Hello again". A sense of acting.
Wow, Richard!
Great video. We need to keep film alive. I used to love darkroom printing but I fell for the convenience of digital. I would hate it to become a lost art.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but John is the only person with a non-French name at Bayeux (watching you from the North of France it was heartwarming to see a little France in London). Thank you for the video and I hope that many more of the new videos are coming soon !
Thanks Alan, great video! Sharing an idea for a future episode of yours: Fresson prints from atelier Fresson, it's very difficult to find good videos about this unique process
Brings back a bunch of memories as I had my own darkroom for a couple of decades. Personally, I can't say I miss it. Fabulous film though and shows why film is so expensive to do well.
Fantastic to see a lab like this in central London is still going strong even in the digital era. Just wish you'd spent more time with Richard the printer and got him to talk about his approach to printing in more depth!
Fantastic I always wondered what happened to my film after I dropped it off to my local lab