Nyctophilia
(n.) Love of darkness or night; finding relaxation or comfort in the darkness.
All darkroom users should experience this...
Category Archives: Silver Gelatin
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
Old Roses
A contact print of an 8×10 film negative made a month or more ago but only processed this week – the wonders of the latent image! And it proves that my dark slide film holders are light-tight… The variation in tone … Continue reading
Avebury – West Kennet Avenue
Posted in 120, 2nd-pass Lith, Chemical Lith Process, Film negative, Gold, Silver Gelatin
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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.
Posted in 120, Film negative, Scanned Negative, Silver Gelatin
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Spathiphyllum (‘Peace Lily’)
Lying on my bed, looking at this piece of exotica in my room and thinking ‘that could work’. It’s been done a thousand times or more, but not by me.
Posted in 8x10, Film negative, Scanned Negative, Silver Gelatin
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Amaryllis 2015
Since 2007, I’ve tried to photograph one of the annual amaryllis flowers grown at Weeping Ash. Each year I’ve tried to take a different approach and this year it was the faded, wilted blooms that struck me as worthy of … Continue reading
Posted in 8x10, Film negative, Scanned Negative, Silver Gelatin
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Nautilus – 2
Below, the original 1927 image, by Edward Weston.
Posted in 8x10, Film negative, Scanned Negative, Silver Gelatin
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