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Very nice pictures, Vaughn (as always), and thanks for your kind words about Alan. I will pass them on, unless you beat me to it.

I agree, Alan is one of the few still working originals of that...

Many thanks for that—I have fixed the URL in the original post.

Alan is a good friend of mine, I am honoured to say, and a wonderful photographer, printer, teacher, and a former assistant to Ansel Adams, entrusted by him to keep printing Ansel's Special Editions,...

The camera field-work workshop is now full, and we have people travelling from all over the world.

Alan still has a few spaces on the darkroom workshop. If you fancy 4 intensive days in Waterford,...

Thanks for posting it, Eric! In case anyone has any questions regarding the location or logistics, feel free to get in touch with me, as I am the one trying to help Alan deliver these workshops in...

Congratulations, well deserved. I second your feelings about the presence, and the draw of those spaces.

I wanted to let you know that we have been fully subscribed for both of Alan's workshops. All of Alan's spare time, while he is in Ireland, has also been reserved for one-to-one requests. If you...

I'm with Lenny... I'd use a filter because I want its specific effect, otherwise, I prefer to have nothing else in the optical path. Having said that, deeper yellows are useful for many purposes. The...

#1 because I like the look, and on balance it seems a reasonable approach that has been fairly popular over the time, though if someone asks for #2 I'm happy to oblige.

I can recommend Quality Light Metric, who have calibrated all of my four meters, including two Pentax Spot Digital. Send in, wait for email, pay, get it back in post. They are at 7095 Hollywood Blvd....

The percentage gets smaller as I get older even though I gain experience and I expose more negatives.

Do you gents check for vignetting, using the cut-off ground glass corners? I thought I was doing it the right way, looking for the shape of the aperture, but I have just processed a batch of...

Thanks, guys. I am lucky that what had started as a workshop, a few years ago, has now developed into a friendship. This has made it possible for me to nag Alan to come over to Ireland: I genuinely...

I am privileged to be helping Alan Ross bring his hands-on darkroom workshops near to where I live in Ireland. Alan will be running two sessions in Dublin: on 23-26 July and 30 July-2 August, 2015....

I am also interested to know this, as I am trying to improve my carrier for a masking application. I am looking for one for the LPL 7452 (aka 4550XLG) that will accept 3mm as opposed to 2mm glass.

I am looking forward to your findings, Randy. It is relatively easy to get a solution of Gum Damar here, and it would be wonderful if the varnish was as easy as that. I've no idea how bad this would...

Randy, have you tested those recipes? If so, any observations?

Almost the same reasons here, and the same Ryuji Suzuki formula. I fix Ilford fibre papers for 1 minute, followed with short rinse, Kodak Se, home made HCA, and a 30-60 min wash, and prints pass both...

Amen. I came to the same conclusion having dabbled in practical sensitometry over the last three years. The reasoning, for me, is driven by my experience that adjusting small-area, local ("micro")...

Ilford Ilfotol 1:200 with tap filtered Co Wicklow water, then hang by corners, no wiping.

Mario, I wish I could make a good suggestion, but I cannot, since your testing procedure is different from mine. I start by establishing the development time, regardless of EI, then I proceed to...

And to complicate it further, flare effect will also depend on the subject. Flare from a uniform, single-tone matt surface that fills the frame (and beyond) will be less noticeable than when...

Mario, I've tested the same combination of film and developer, and I have concluded that the recommended time of 12 min would yield contrast higher than N, and also an EI higher than 100. I have...

I ended up tearing those little disks out, as they were always turning on their own, changing the numbers I set. The digits were hard to read on most of my negs, too. Ended up filing those holders,...

I picked up my notching system from Alan Ross. It is Roman, using a set of jeweler's files he kindly gave me: narrow flat for 1, triangular v-shaped for 5, and round for 10.

Though I've mentioned a few of their disadvantages, above, they have pluses too. The choice of filters seems wider, and if you use graduated filters, there is a bit more freedom how you position...

I used to use the rectangular Lee system for my 5 lenses for about 10 years. I have now switched to what has been proposed above, by Bill_1856, that is a combination of the largest size filter (72 mm...

Ultimately, you'd test for a development time that gives you the desired contrast while using the agitation approach that works best for your tank, evenness, and a myriad of somewhat personal...

I'd suggest contacting the Weston Gallery in Carmel-by-the-Sea http://www.westongallery.com. I've seen Paul Strand prints in there, several times, and in general, they have always been very...

Dunco are OK. Well designed.

Where do you buy your 32X40 mat board?

But of course from Glenwood Mouldings in Newtownmountkennedy, Co Wicklow, or from The Photo Shop, Co. Meath, Peter provides good service. Naturally, you...

MGWT FB in Ryuji Suzuki DS-14 developer with 0.3g BTA/l working solution is fairly cool, for this paper, with blueish tones. Se 1+9 ca. 2 min will warm it back, but in a pleasant, unique way....

Is that 1 every 10 seconds, or 1 inversion so slow that it takes 10 seconds? If the latter, you're in or very close to uneven development territory. One thing I've observed from other, more advanced...

For what it is worth, in UK 1 qt is 1.14 l, and 1 gal is 4.55 l. Have you ever wondered why British cars have higher mpg than US ones?

Tim, for what it is worth, I've been a happy user of my SV45TE, but because I have bought it 14 years ago, and it has been my only ever LF, I cannot compare it with others. Neither do I have as much...

That'd be my experience too. I've been told that changing tents increase dust issues, but I've seen exactly the opposite. Mine, also a Harrison, pup tent, definitely reduces the issue. I also think...

Richard, please post how the things develop, if you don't mind. I've been asked the same question, though I don't need to answer for another few months.

I take a sheet of baking/wax paper, the brown stuff, and cut it a few times. It does a wonderful job of ever so gently lubricating my Rotatrim. But it does sounds like yours is a little more poorly...

Cześć Hubert, witaj!

Steve, to answer the question if a film can or cannot record X number of stops you need to look not just at the film density range, but at the relationship between the light being recorded, on the...