Nyctophilia
(n.) Love of darkness or night; finding relaxation or comfort in the darkness.
All darkroom users should experience this...
Category Archives: 120
Archive Delve – Essex Cemetery, 1988
I saw part of a programme last night which talked about how babies can recognise anything resembling a face almost from birth, but can’t visually recognise anything else until they get many months older. Seems like the ability to identify a face … Continue reading
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You never know quite what you’ll get
I had a print of this, published here previously, that was a bit dark. I thought I’d run it through the 2nd-Pass lith process, just out of interest. This is how I’d ended up printing the image originally (I left … Continue reading
The ‘Druid Stone’ Revisited – 2nd Pass Lith
I was never happy with the prints I made of this negative (detailed here) so thought I would take the worst of two, which was far too dark, and see if I could improve on it with some post-processing.
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Avebury – West Kennet Avenue
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It happens… (updated)
You can never be quite sure what you are going to get with film. This negative, one a series of 8 exposures taken on 120 Kodak Tri-X film, has ‘mystery artefacts’ and I’m not sure what caused them.
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Wells Cathedral – Scissor Arch
I had a request from a friend for a print of this image, which had never been printed previously. Rather than using a negative scan and inkjet, I made the print conventionally, printing the full negative area. This is a … Continue reading
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