Darkroom Masking for High Contrast Negatives
Burning & dodging masks can help you control print exposures within a difficult negative.
Category Darkroom Printing
Articles about darkroom printing for printmakers! Traditional wet darkroom printing techniques such as split grade printing. I discuss the importance of making proper proofs, and the info they can reveal about your film, exposure, and development. There are articles covering printing from difficult negatives, and preparing exhibition prints. If you are wanting darkroom printing tuition check out these workshops.
Burning Dodging Darkroom Techniques
How to make burning and dodging tools for darkroom printing and tips for successful technique.
Photographic Print Types
I have listed four common photographic print types using silver and chemistry as their basis. These include traditional silver gelatin fibre based prints, Polaroid prints, Type C colour prints and Cibachrome or Ilfochrome prints.
Split grade printing on fibre based paper Part 3
Split grade printing is my preferred technique for printing from a high contrast image with the goal of making a full tonal range silver gelatin fibre based print.
Contact Proof Prints Standard Exposure Time Part 2
The importance of establishing a standard exposure time for making and assessing your first contact prints.
Printing Overdeveloped Negatives – Part 1
Overdeveloped negatives, we all have them, but how do you print from them?
Old English wooden enlarger for 6×8 inch glass plates
Just came across this old photo of mine. Looking more like a guillotine this was my first large format enlarger. It is an old English wooden enlarger for glass plates purchased 25 years ago just outside Launceston, Tasmania.
Darkroom Printing – a typical session
Whats involved and how long is a typical darkroom printing session?
Dry mounting photographs: fibre-based prints on museum board
How to dry mount fibre based prints onto 100% cotton "rag" museum board for exhibition.
Beseler enlarger fan modification
Reducing potential fan vibration in my enlarger head. Replacing the old fan with a 12volt DC axial fan used in computers. This not only eliminated vibration but was also quieter.