Darkroom Printing - Step-by-Step Guide to Your First Print
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- čas přidán 9. 04. 2024
- Ready to make your first black & white darkroom print? Awesome!!!
This video will help you set up with everything you need to know to make a great first black-and-white print in the darkroom.
This is part of a basic black-and-white printing series. Really hope this helps anyone starting out on their darkroom printing journey!
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Go to black and white film photography setup (Large Format) //
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Great video! Definitely a different ball game from just developing and scanning, but super compelling to try!
It’s the best 👍 Thank you!
Amazing video. Thank you!
Thank's Drew, Appreciate the feedback!
Another great video Matthew.
Thanks Mike!
Planning on printing my first BW print. This video was very helpful. Thanks for the tutorial 👍🏾
Glad it was helpful! Hope it's a great one!
Helpful thank you! I am slowly gathering my darkroom supplies for color printing and bw printing! The tips in the videos will definitely help! And I’m going to take a look at your mini course thank you!
Awesome to hear! Let me know if you need anything or have any questions 👍🏻
Always learning something watching your videos no matter the topic. Ordering up some ND filters tonight. I'm always closing down the lens a few stops to get longer exposure times. Thanks.
Glad to share! Thanks for watching!
Really have to get back into the darkroom,.
A good place to be !
Haha, same. Notebooks with notes but can’t remember what negatives they go with. Great video!
The struggle is real!
Really informative videos and nice to watch. One question, how do you judge how long the paper is in the developer for? Is it just by eye? For example, 14 secs under the enlarger could produce quite different results depending on how long it is in the developer tray?
When starting out I recommend being consistent with the time/temp for your paper development. For RC generally a min 1/2 70 dergees or so and Fiber Paper 3 min 70 degrees or so. Basically develop to completion (but not so long as to produce chemical fogging) and do the exposure and contrast adjustments under the enlarger. Takes some of the variables out of learning.
I signed up, purely for the log sheet :) But I've been a huge fan of your printing videos so getting a course thrown in is great. One thing, maybe provide the logbook as a straight PDF download (with a4, and whatever you folk over the other side of the atlantic use?), canva made me want to throw my monitor out the window.
Can do that for sure 👍 want tit to be easily customizable to one’s own methods. Found it personally to be by far the simplest solution
@@DistinctionPhotoLLC maybe once I've used the sheets a bit I might want to tweak them. From a "getting up and running" PoV though, a straight PDF download would be more convenient. I know Canva is a big deal in design circles, and I'm kind of used to having accounts on dozens of these hosted tools now (I work in IT), but for those less tech savvy (or those like me that mostly do analogue as digital detox), a simpler option would be cool. (I've already PDF'd it from Canva for my purposes).
@@TristanColgate Appreciate the feedback and totally understand. Will work on something for others asap 👍
Which olympus rangefinder do you have? I was just singing the praises of the 35dc to my coworker this morning because I just got back five rolls of color film I shot on vacation and all 180 frames were perfectly exposed. I love that thing!
I have the 35 RC and it is about the cutest little camera ever made... works really well too!
@@DistinctionPhotoLLC kind of want one!! Same body as the DC but with shutter speed selection
@@samue1991 I love it but the one I have the rangefinder patch can be really hard to see at times. Not sure if they are al like that but that is my only complaint. Otherwise it is great!👍
@@DistinctionPhotoLLC mine's not the brightest either, though my bigger problem using it as a travel camera is having to teach random people how to focus it if I want to show up in any pictures 😂
@@samue1991 I’ve tried reaching my daughter a few times and it seems so simple but I guess it is a hard thing to grasp 🤷🏻♂️
Did I miss it ? Or did you tell the color filters in you color enlarger can be used as ND filters. Even though most older enlarger filters have some fading.
But if you set the filters to equal numbers, combined they act as an ND filter. That’s just if you don’t have ND filters.
Very well done!
I did not as this was with the condenser enlarger... trying to be beginner friendly. I do REALLY miss that about my old color enlarger. It was an Omega Chromega D (in fact still have the head for it). and those even have an ND filter on top of that. I like my Saunders Dichroic head but do feel ALL enlargers should have built in ND filters. Thanks for watching!