Simply put, standard black & white printing produces an image the ‘colour’ of which depends on the paper used and the developer, discounting any toning afterwards. Every black has its own hue, this can be from any part of the … Continue reading →
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 →
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.
Continue reading →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 →
I discovered an undeveloped roll of 120 film in the cupboard this week. I had no idea what was on it. Part of the magic of film photography is that once the photons have done their work on the little … Continue reading →
After a long hiatus, it’s time to revive this site and start adding new material from the dark side. To kick off, here’s a print made this week from a 31yr-old 35mm negative on Tri-X film, processed in Kodak HC-110 … Continue reading →