Different photographers have different expectations from a film. They may buy a particular brand because they have seen that someone they admire has used it. Some are looking for good latitude, others for speed, acutance or fine grain. Others may be expecting contrasty, gritty results.
Buying a film and exposing/developing at the manufacturers recommended settings will [...]
One of the most important areas of photography is the processing of negatives. The quality of your images is dependent on how much care and attention you take with your developer, dilution, times, temperature and agitation. Following much of the literature which has been published on the matter though, could give you too many things [...]
At the University where I teach part time I have a number of students who stand out from the crowd because of the talent, dedication or ingenuity they display.
One such student, Chris Finch has recently been working with 5×4 and processing in two bath.
A couple of weeks ago, we were discussing the various ways sheet [...]
This weekend I put aside a few hours to begin processing some of the Scotland 10×8 negatives. I discarded the old two bath developer from February and as I poured it out it occurred to me that perhaps I should check to see if I had enough raw chemical to mix up some fresh.
Sure enough, [...]
I’ve just returned from a two week break in the West of Scotland, shooting mainly 10×8 landscapes. I shot almost every day and now have a lot of sheets of film which need processing separately. I intend to use the two bath process as this gives me the most even development where there are large [...]
I finished my printing this morning, so I put the 10×8 sheet film through the two bath developer. I process individual sheets in trays, so it takes quite a while, but the results were astounding!
The tonal compression that this method gives is just amazing.
I will do some prints as soon as I get a bit [...]
I suddenly got the idea today?that I could put Ortho film in one of the cameras, shoot some graphic contrasty snow scenes, over process the film and get a really high contrast result. This I hoped, would print as black and white with no mid tones.
I went out with an old Nikkormat and a 20mm [...]