Nicely done, fishy.
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Nicely done, fishy.
Greetings, Joe, and welcome. I lived in Bethlehem for about a year in '75, when "the steel" was still there.
I continue to follow the rebound of film and am always interested in why individuals...
I have given up on the "tie-on"/sling configurations and decided just to take a very small and light, but padded, backpack. The tripod will go in head first, in the center, with the legs at top...
Nice, Hugo; whimsical cloud.
Hi, MWMH.Hard to tell dimensions from the image distortion, but, yes, a sink-level platform/counter will be essential next to the sink. It might have to be a moveable table; just make sure it's...
John, thanks. This looks like something I can work with, maybe adapt a bit, adn in my price-range. Much obliged.
My wife and I will be hiking in the great out-of-doors next month. We're not experienced hikers, nor campers; just out to see some wonders of the west. Though I'd love to take the 4x5, I will be...
Very handsome, Lars.
Lars, I like this one very much.
Grit and Francis, nice work on these last two.
Alexander, well seen.
Great find.
One additional note, on reflection, adn please forgive me if I'm telling you something you already know.
It gets harder to focus on the grain as you stop down, to 16 and smaller, especially if the...
I wouldn't give up quite so soon. I have a Microsight enlarging magnifier, which is 25x, and with fine grain film on a modest enlargement, zeroing can take patience. You haven't said what...
I'm planning a post or few for my blog, on the thrift store / yard sale approach to darkroom equipment for beginners who -- how well many of us remember it! -- are hard pressed for cash after buying...
Austin, your delightfully ironic eye plays again. I have to say, until I looked at the caption saying "mirror", my impression was that some photographer had inexplicably left a collapsible reflector...
Paul, this is lovely. I admit that I am partial to non-soft-focus images, though they have their charm and can sometimes, in my view, be very successful. For me this subject is better this way. The...
Notorius, well seen.
Very well done. I look forward to the next video. Thank you.
A neighbor whose appearance struck me and my wife as resembling a figure from a Leonardo painting kindly agreed to my request to make a portrait. She was very busy when the day arrived, so I worked...
Arresting image, awty/
I am wondering if someone can identify these notch codes 1933. I'm curious about the film speed (for an article I'm writing). I am not at liberty to share the contact sheet images, made in...
esearing, my current process is to second-fix prints and then move them directly to the selenium, per Doremus's procedure.
1. What is the effect on the higher tones from slight bleaching, i.e.,...
Others may join you -- dovetailed or not -- in screwing around with your window blockers. I have enough trouble measuring, let alone crafting something precise like that. Even if I had the tools, I'd...
Drew, I'd be interested to know a bit about how you achieve economy with the gold toner. I tried a bit many years ago but did not get the effect I was looking for and that was that. I don;t know if...
Lovely image, David.
Probably last year, I asked about glues that would stick to the slick plastic blackout sheeting (white on one side, black on the other) that I use to black out my windows. Various helpful answers...
Good to see you here, Joel. Have at it!
Ciao, frommm. Do you use a large format camera with those lenses? These days, there seems to be a craze for adapting lenses to cameras they had never seen. Or, seen for.
Esearing, thanks. The signal difference between ICUs and DIYs in this instance was price. I'm a miserable excuse for a builder, and you can just imagine how many nails bent or went in sideways, much...
An arresting portrait for sure. Well done.
Willwilson, your abstract is quite an attractive piece. Well seen.
esearing, thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, the only out-spelling of your acronym that comes to mind is Intensive Care Unit, and a padded one sounds like the fabled psychiatric type. While there are...
Hi, rename. You have arrived at a good destination. You'll find a wealth of assistance here, as well as inspiring work posted. Looking forward to seeing some of yours.
reddesert, yes; lenses will be wrapped; camera compartment padded or I'll wrap my cloth around it.
It is always wise to run your own tests with safelights. If everything is fine, great; it a hint of fogging occurs, adjustments need to be made. I say this because I also prefer amber yellow) light...
Much obliged, as always.
Yesterday, I finally found a budget-level, almost fully "clamshell"-design backpack for short 4x5 outings. It is a Targus model, about $35, at BestBuy, where I had gone to use a $25 gift certificate....
Thanks, friends. I have decided to use a pair of legacy shape" LED bulbs, partially bounced. It's for a work table area.
This is not quite darkroom; my darkroom and workroom are the same.
I have an available standard AC outlet and would like to hook up a strip like this
https://tinyurl.com/mrzsxua7
over a work...