#darkroom — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116946178813103516

One of the worst (but by far not the worst) effects of genAI as technology: Seeding doubt & distrust in the last remaining parts of shared reality and in people's creativity or their skills... So much brain rot and cognitive bias!

Having just spent half a day in the darkroom yesterday, mixing chems, preparing emulsions, test strips, refining tone curves, making prints, experimenting with toners and sharing some work-in-progress shots — this morning I was waking up to an accusation that I keep publishing AI generated images (this time supposedly the one below) and not label or CW them as such. WTF! So much for trying to hone an actual wetware skill/craft...

Apart from feeling pretty offended by that comment, I wonder how are makers supposed to address these insinuations? How many people are already sharing these doubts and how do they change perception and value/role of art in general? Do we need to document our process in ever greater detail as some form of "certificate of authenticity"? I feel the urge to upload more timelapses of my processing (analog and digital) or even RAW camera files to prove AI-free workflow or source materials... Some receipts are here (but also in my TL):

https://makertube.net/c/noircountry/videos

For my color photography, my editing is purposefully very lightweight and mostly limited to adjusting levels, minor color adjustments (e.g. for shots taken with polarization filter), cropping, resizing with sharpening (unsharp masking or Lanczos kernel). Since some of my older lenses have auto-focus issues, I use an old version of Topaz for denoising/sharpening, but only rarely and as subtly as possible. For B&W there's usually more layered/refined level/contrast editing & some masking... In general my mantra is to "get it (mostly) right in camera" and also have written about this previously:

https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116635793094198883

#AI #Photography #Darkroom #PrintMaking #FineArt

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116946178813103516

One of the worst (but by far not the worst) effects of genAI as technology: Seeding doubt & distrust in the last remaining parts of shared reality and in people's creativity or their skills... So much brain rot and cognitive bias!

Having just spent half a day in the darkroom yesterday, mixing chems, preparing emulsions, test strips, refining tone curves, making prints, experimenting with toners and sharing some work-in-progress shots — this morning I was waking up to an accusation that I keep publishing AI generated images (this time supposedly the one below) and not label or CW them as such. WTF! So much for trying to hone an actual wetware skill/craft...

Apart from feeling pretty offended by that comment, I wonder how are makers supposed to address these insinuations? How many people are already sharing these doubts and how do they change perception and value/role of art in general? Do we need to document our process in ever greater detail as some form of "certificate of authenticity"? I feel the urge to upload more timelapses of my processing (analog and digital) or even RAW camera files to prove AI-free workflow or source materials... Some receipts are here (but also in my TL):

https://makertube.net/c/noircountry/videos

For my color photography, my editing is purposefully very lightweight and mostly limited to adjusting levels, minor color adjustments (e.g. for shots taken with polarization filter), cropping, resizing with sharpening (unsharp masking or Lanczos kernel). Since some of my older lenses have auto-focus issues, I use an old version of Topaz for denoising/sharpening, but only rarely and as subtly as possible. For B&W there's usually more layered/refined level/contrast editing & some masking... In general my mantra is to "get it (mostly) right in camera" and also have written about this previously:

https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116635793094198883

#AI #Photography #Darkroom #PrintMaking #FineArt

Darkroom Showcases Hard-To-Find Anime Content
Streaming Platform Spotlights Rare Anime Gems Including...
https://comiccrusaders.com/comics/comic-book-previews/darkroom-hard-to-find-anime-content/
#Darkroom #anime #rare anime #hard-to-find anime #Crusher Joe #Crusher Joe A Trap of the Frozen Jail #Crusher Joe The Final Weapon ASH #Haré + Guu DELUXE #Haré + Guu FINAL #Simoun #anime streaming #cult anime #classic anime #foreign films #arthouse streaming #independent streaming #Comic Crusaders

Darkroom Showcases Hard-To-Find Anime Content
Streaming Platform Spotlights Rare Anime Gems Including...
https://comiccrusaders.com/comics/comic-book-previews/darkroom-hard-to-find-anime-content/
#Darkroom #anime #rare anime #hard-to-find anime #Crusher Joe #Crusher Joe A Trap of the Frozen Jail #Crusher Joe The Final Weapon ASH #Haré + Guu DELUXE #Haré + Guu FINAL #Simoun #anime streaming #cult anime #classic anime #foreign films #arthouse streaming #independent streaming #Comic Crusaders

I captured the most magic moment/stage of Kallitype development as 4x slow-motion, the moment when you pour developer over the exposed image and you can see it for the very first time...

https://makertube.net/w/9i7i9APGyJk1Ajbp2zmY7U

Most of the image becomes visible immediately, but details are only completely there after around 30-60 seconds. The rest of the 45-50 minute development process is mostly to refine contrast, tones and making the print resistant to aging and to achieve archival stability, e.g. via multi-stage clearing to dissolve and remove any obsolete iron, toning via salts of precious metals or other compounds, fixing and several rounds of rinsing...

(The print shown in the video is still drying and I will share a picture of it tomorrow)

#AltProcess #Kallitype #AnalogPhotography #Darkroom #Photography #PrintMaking #NoirCountry #Video

I captured the most magic moment/stage of Kallitype development as 4x slow-motion, the moment when you pour developer over the exposed image and you can see it for the very first time...

https://makertube.net/w/9i7i9APGyJk1Ajbp2zmY7U

Most of the image becomes visible immediately, but details are only completely there after around 30-60 seconds. The rest of the 45-50 minute development process is mostly to refine contrast, tones and making the print resistant to aging and to achieve archival stability, e.g. via multi-stage clearing to dissolve and remove any obsolete iron, toning via salts of precious metals or other compounds, fixing and several rounds of rinsing...

(The print shown in the video is still drying and I will share a picture of it tomorrow)

#AltProcess #Kallitype #AnalogPhotography #Darkroom #Photography #PrintMaking #NoirCountry #Video

I captured the most magic moment/stage of Kallitype development as 4x slow-motion, the moment when you pour developer over the exposed image and you can see it for the very first time...

https://makertube.net/w/9i7i9APGyJk1Ajbp2zmY7U

Most of the image becomes visible immediately, but details are only completely there after around 30-60 seconds. The rest of the 45-50 minute development process is mostly to refine contrast, tones and making the print resistant to aging and to achieve archival stability, e.g. via multi-stage clearing to dissolve and remove any obsolete iron, toning via salts of precious metals or other compounds, fixing and several rounds of rinsing...

(The print shown in the video is still drying and I will share a picture of it tomorrow)

#AltProcess #Kallitype #AnalogPhotography #Darkroom #Photography #PrintMaking #NoirCountry #Video

I captured the most magic moment/stage of Kallitype development as 4x slow-motion, the moment when you pour developer over the exposed image and you can see it for the very first time...

https://makertube.net/w/9i7i9APGyJk1Ajbp2zmY7U

Most of the image becomes visible immediately, but details are only completely there after around 30-60 seconds. The rest of the 45-50 minute development process is mostly to refine contrast, tones and making the print resistant to aging and to achieve archival stability, e.g. via multi-stage clearing to dissolve and remove any obsolete iron, toning via salts of precious metals or other compounds, fixing and several rounds of rinsing...

(The print shown in the video is still drying and I will share a picture of it tomorrow)

#AltProcess #Kallitype #AnalogPhotography #Darkroom #Photography #PrintMaking #NoirCountry #Video

I captured the most magic moment/stage of Kallitype development as 4x slow-motion, the moment when you pour developer over the exposed image and you can see it for the very first time...

https://makertube.net/w/9i7i9APGyJk1Ajbp2zmY7U

Most of the image becomes visible immediately, but details are only completely there after around 30-60 seconds. The rest of the 45-50 minute development process is mostly to refine contrast, tones and making the print resistant to aging and to achieve archival stability, e.g. via multi-stage clearing to dissolve and remove any obsolete iron, toning via salts of precious metals or other compounds, fixing and several rounds of rinsing...

(The print shown in the video is still drying and I will share a picture of it tomorrow)

#AltProcess #Kallitype #AnalogPhotography #Darkroom #Photography #PrintMaking #NoirCountry #Video

Slow-motion Kallitype

https://makertube.net/w/9i7i9APGyJk1Ajbp2zmY7U

Slow-motion Kallitype

https://makertube.net/w/9i7i9APGyJk1Ajbp2zmY7U

FR:
Son témoignage était clair, il jurait qu’il n’inventait rien et que sa volonté n’avait aucune emprise sur ces phénomènes. D’autres en avaient fait l’expérience et tous disaient que les visions surgissaient sans qu’on s’y attende, n’importe où, comme si soudainement le monde glissait pareil à un léger tissus qui flotte porté par le vent et qu’une brèche s’y dessinait. Personne ne savait ce qu’elles pouvaient être mais chacun reconnaissait ressentir face à elles, de façon diffuse, comme un appel.

« Aujourd’hui elles ne sont plus qu’un souvenir pourtant je les sens comme si elles étaient encore là. Mes mains redeviennent moites et mon cœur s’affole dans ma poitrine… Mais je ne saurais vous dire si c’est de peur ou d’excitation. »



ENG:
His testimony was clear, he swore he didn’t make up any of it and that his will had no control over these phenomenons. Other had experienced it as well and they all said that these visions bursted without expectation, anywhere, like if, all of a sudden, the world was slidding apart similar to a light sheet moved by the wind and a gap hovered on it. Nobody knew what it was but all of them recognised that they vaguely felt what seemed to be a calling.

« Today these are memories, yet I feel them like if they still were there. My hands become sweaty again and my heart beats my chest… But I couldn’t tell if it’s by fear or excitement. »

Very short look into my treasure-chest in my magic chamber. :-))

(Needs to be defrosted soon)

#photography
#whyshouldfilmbedead
#analog
#filmphotography
#darkroom
#dunkelkammer
#freezer
#35mm
#4x5
#13x18
#18x24
#sheetfilm
#bulkfim

Very short look into my treasure-chest in my magic chamber. :-))

(Needs to be defrosted soon)

#photography
#whyshouldfilmbedead
#analog
#filmphotography
#darkroom
#dunkelkammer
#freezer
#35mm
#4x5
#13x18
#18x24
#sheetfilm
#bulkfim

Very short look into my treasure-chest in my magic chamber. :-))

(Needs to be defrosted soon)

#photography
#whyshouldfilmbedead
#analog
#filmphotography
#darkroom
#dunkelkammer
#freezer
#35mm
#4x5
#13x18
#18x24
#sheetfilm
#bulkfim

Very short look into my treasure-chest in my magic chamber. :-))

(Needs to be defrosted soon)

#photography
#whyshouldfilmbedead
#analog
#filmphotography
#darkroom
#dunkelkammer
#freezer
#35mm
#4x5
#13x18
#18x24
#sheetfilm
#bulkfim

Very short look into my treasure-chest in my magic chamber. :-))

(Needs to be defrosted soon)

#photography
#whyshouldfilmbedead
#analog
#filmphotography
#darkroom
#dunkelkammer
#freezer
#35mm
#4x5
#13x18
#18x24
#sheetfilm
#bulkfim

Quelqu'un veut un diabolo-révélateur ?

#LaboPhoto #Darkroom #Fomapan400

Quelqu'un veut un diabolo-révélateur ?

#LaboPhoto #Darkroom #Fomapan400

Quelqu'un veut un diabolo-révélateur ?

#LaboPhoto #Darkroom #Fomapan400

Quelqu'un veut un diabolo-révélateur ?

#LaboPhoto #Darkroom #Fomapan400

Entscheidend ist *infectious development*: Am „Snatch Point“ den Print aus dem Entwickler ziehen, bevor die Lichter zulaufen. Papier, Verdünnung & Temperatur machen jeden Abzug zum Unikat. Wer litht – welches Papier/Setup klappt bei euch? #analogphotography #darkroom #lithprint #foto #unikat #print #fotografie #foto #photography

Ruf mich an!
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Tel: 123456789

Added, updated & simplified the growing collection of darkroom-related calculators and super happy how elegant and concise the code has turned out, making it super easy to add more of them in the future.

I think it's also another great, if minimal, example to illustrate how otherwise completely separate https://thi.ng/umbrella packages can seamlessly compose/combine to enable a reactive dataflow UI, all without the need for any virtual DOMs and/or completely over-the-top frameworks like React & co. It's also doing so via mostly JS-native data structures for declaring the UI (plain objects/arrays/iterables) and various constructs directly managing the reactive value streams, thus providing a lot more finegrained control over UI updates/timing/throttling). Any value changes done by the user only trigger specific, pin-point calculations which then result in equally specific UI updates to show new results. Any user action only ever triggers the minimum amount of work needed to reflect the new state.

Calculators:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/darkroom-calc/

Source code:
https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/examples/darkroom-calc/src

The attached images show the source code of the entire main app (UI root) and one of the calculators...

Ps. Please let me know if you'd like to see more of these posts in the future. I'm tempted to launch season 2 of #HowToThing (see link below for 30 previous mini projects/tutorials) — but since this is very time consuming to produce & document these projects/examples, and because there has been _very little feedback_ to these previous projects/posts, I first need to gauge interest... Thank you! 🫶

https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella#howtothing

#ThingUmbrella #Darkroom #Calculator #Tool #Reactive #UI #WebDev #TypeScript #JavaScript #OpenSource

Added, updated & simplified the growing collection of darkroom-related calculators and super happy how elegant and concise the code has turned out, making it super easy to add more of them in the future.

I think it's also another great, if minimal, example to illustrate how otherwise completely separate https://thi.ng/umbrella packages can seamlessly compose/combine to enable a reactive dataflow UI, all without the need for any virtual DOMs and/or completely over-the-top frameworks like React & co. It's also doing so via mostly JS-native data structures for declaring the UI (plain objects/arrays/iterables) and various constructs directly managing the reactive value streams, thus providing a lot more finegrained control over UI updates/timing/throttling). Any value changes done by the user only trigger specific, pin-point calculations which then result in equally specific UI updates to show new results. Any user action only ever triggers the minimum amount of work needed to reflect the new state.

Calculators:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/darkroom-calc/

Source code:
https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/examples/darkroom-calc/src

The attached images show the source code of the entire main app (UI root) and one of the calculators...

Ps. Please let me know if you'd like to see more of these posts in the future. I'm tempted to launch season 2 of #HowToThing (see link below for 30 previous mini projects/tutorials) — but since this is very time consuming to produce & document these projects/examples, and because there has been _very little feedback_ to these previous projects/posts, I first need to gauge interest... Thank you! 🫶

https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella#howtothing

#ThingUmbrella #Darkroom #Calculator #Tool #Reactive #UI #WebDev #TypeScript #JavaScript #OpenSource

Added, updated & simplified the growing collection of darkroom-related calculators and super happy how elegant and concise the code has turned out, making it super easy to add more of them in the future.

I think it's also another great, if minimal, example to illustrate how otherwise completely separate https://thi.ng/umbrella packages can seamlessly compose/combine to enable a reactive dataflow UI, all without the need for any virtual DOMs and/or completely over-the-top frameworks like React & co. It's also doing so via mostly JS-native data structures for declaring the UI (plain objects/arrays/iterables) and various constructs directly managing the reactive value streams, thus providing a lot more finegrained control over UI updates/timing/throttling). Any value changes done by the user only trigger specific, pin-point calculations which then result in equally specific UI updates to show new results. Any user action only ever triggers the minimum amount of work needed to reflect the new state.

Calculators:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/darkroom-calc/

Source code:
https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/examples/darkroom-calc/src

The attached images show the source code of the entire main app (UI root) and one of the calculators...

Ps. Please let me know if you'd like to see more of these posts in the future. I'm tempted to launch season 2 of #HowToThing (see link below for 30 previous mini projects/tutorials) — but since this is very time consuming to produce & document these projects/examples, and because there has been _very little feedback_ to these previous projects/posts, I first need to gauge interest... Thank you! 🫶

https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella#howtothing

#ThingUmbrella #Darkroom #Calculator #Tool #Reactive #UI #WebDev #TypeScript #JavaScript #OpenSource

Added, updated & simplified the growing collection of darkroom-related calculators and super happy how elegant and concise the code has turned out, making it super easy to add more of them in the future.

I think it's also another great, if minimal, example to illustrate how otherwise completely separate https://thi.ng/umbrella packages can seamlessly compose/combine to enable a reactive dataflow UI, all without the need for any virtual DOMs and/or completely over-the-top frameworks like React & co. It's also doing so via mostly JS-native data structures for declaring the UI (plain objects/arrays/iterables) and various constructs directly managing the reactive value streams, thus providing a lot more finegrained control over UI updates/timing/throttling). Any value changes done by the user only trigger specific, pin-point calculations which then result in equally specific UI updates to show new results. Any user action only ever triggers the minimum amount of work needed to reflect the new state.

Calculators:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/darkroom-calc/

Source code:
https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/examples/darkroom-calc/src

The attached images show the source code of the entire main app (UI root) and one of the calculators...

Ps. Please let me know if you'd like to see more of these posts in the future. I'm tempted to launch season 2 of #HowToThing (see link below for 30 previous mini projects/tutorials) — but since this is very time consuming to produce & document these projects/examples, and because there has been _very little feedback_ to these previous projects/posts, I first need to gauge interest... Thank you! 🫶

https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella#howtothing

#ThingUmbrella #Darkroom #Calculator #Tool #Reactive #UI #WebDev #TypeScript #JavaScript #OpenSource

Added, updated & simplified the growing collection of darkroom-related calculators and super happy how elegant and concise the code has turned out, making it super easy to add more of them in the future.

I think it's also another great, if minimal, example to illustrate how otherwise completely separate https://thi.ng/umbrella packages can seamlessly compose/combine to enable a reactive dataflow UI, all without the need for any virtual DOMs and/or completely over-the-top frameworks like React & co. It's also doing so via mostly JS-native data structures for declaring the UI (plain objects/arrays/iterables) and various constructs directly managing the reactive value streams, thus providing a lot more finegrained control over UI updates/timing/throttling). Any value changes done by the user only trigger specific, pin-point calculations which then result in equally specific UI updates to show new results. Any user action only ever triggers the minimum amount of work needed to reflect the new state.

Calculators:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/darkroom-calc/

Source code:
https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/examples/darkroom-calc/src

The attached images show the source code of the entire main app (UI root) and one of the calculators...

Ps. Please let me know if you'd like to see more of these posts in the future. I'm tempted to launch season 2 of #HowToThing (see link below for 30 previous mini projects/tutorials) — but since this is very time consuming to produce & document these projects/examples, and because there has been _very little feedback_ to these previous projects/posts, I first need to gauge interest... Thank you! 🫶

https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella#howtothing

#ThingUmbrella #Darkroom #Calculator #Tool #Reactive #UI #WebDev #TypeScript #JavaScript #OpenSource

Your photography history post for today: by Lillian Bassman (1917-2012), “Night Bloom, Olga Pantushenkova, hat by Christian Lacroix Haute Couture, Paris,” gelatin silver print, published in The New York Times Magazine, 31 March 1996. #photography #photographyhistory #fashionphotography #darkroom #womanphotographer #womenphotographers

Excerpts from her obituary in The Guardian, written by Veronica Horwell, 16 Feb 2012: ‘Lillian Bassman wandered into fashion photography in pursuit of the happiness of constant creation. Her absorption in her work showed in every picture she took, or rather in every image she printed, for Bassman… was an exuberant experimenter in the darkroom. "In there, I felt a sense of being able to say something I wanted to say," she remarked. Her pictures are closer to those of the illustrators who shared the glossy pages of fashion magazines with photographers until the 1950s than to contemporaries such as Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. Avedon knew what Bassman was up to though, saying that she made "visible that heartbreaking invisible place between the appearance and the disappearance of things".

Bassman was a bohemian from her childhood in Brooklyn and Greenwich Village, New York, onwards. She was the daughter of Ukrainian emigres who had courted in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum. Bassman admired the old masters, too, and was inspired by El Greco's near-monochrome, elongated portraits. Her early intention was to be a dancer, and she kept her eye for the grace in female movement that, she said, "usually passes unnoticed in everyday life".’

Your photography history post for today: by Lillian Bassman (1917-2012), “Night Bloom, Olga Pantushenkova, hat by Christian Lacroix Haute Couture, Paris,” gelatin silver print, published in The New York Times Magazine, 31 March 1996. #photography #photographyhistory #fashionphotography #darkroom #womanphotographer #womenphotographers

Excerpts from her obituary in The Guardian, written by Veronica Horwell, 16 Feb 2012: ‘Lillian Bassman wandered into fashion photography in pursuit of the happiness of constant creation. Her absorption in her work showed in every picture she took, or rather in every image she printed, for Bassman… was an exuberant experimenter in the darkroom. "In there, I felt a sense of being able to say something I wanted to say," she remarked. Her pictures are closer to those of the illustrators who shared the glossy pages of fashion magazines with photographers until the 1950s than to contemporaries such as Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. Avedon knew what Bassman was up to though, saying that she made "visible that heartbreaking invisible place between the appearance and the disappearance of things".

Bassman was a bohemian from her childhood in Brooklyn and Greenwich Village, New York, onwards. She was the daughter of Ukrainian emigres who had courted in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum. Bassman admired the old masters, too, and was inspired by El Greco's near-monochrome, elongated portraits. Her early intention was to be a dancer, and she kept her eye for the grace in female movement that, she said, "usually passes unnoticed in everyday life".’

https://www.europesays.com/ie/426309/ Darkroom Assistant’s Scrapboook Contains Unseen Photos Taken by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton #Acquisition #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #cecilbeaton #darkroom #Design #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #leemiller #oxforduniversity #photoalbum #photoarchive #scrapbook #secondworldwar #Vogue #worldwar2

Darkroom Assistant’s Scrapboook Contains Unseen Photos Taken by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton https://petapixel.com/2026/04/08/darkroom-assistants-scrapboook-contains-unseen-photos-taken-by-lee-miller-and-cecil-beaton/ #oxforduniversity #secondworldwar #photoarchive #acquisition #cecilbeaton #photoalbum #leemiller #scrapbook #worldwar2 #darkroom #Analog #vogue #News

Darkroom Assistant’s Scrapboook Contains Unseen Photos Taken by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton https://petapixel.com/2026/04/08/darkroom-assistants-scrapboook-contains-unseen-photos-taken-by-lee-miller-and-cecil-beaton/ #oxforduniversity #secondworldwar #photoarchive #acquisition #cecilbeaton #photoalbum #leemiller #scrapbook #worldwar2 #darkroom #Analog #vogue #News

Darkroom Assistant’s Scrapboook Contains Unseen Photos Taken by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton https://petapixel.com/2026/04/08/darkroom-assistants-scrapboook-contains-unseen-photos-taken-by-lee-miller-and-cecil-beaton/ #oxforduniversity #secondworldwar #photoarchive #acquisition #cecilbeaton #photoalbum #leemiller #scrapbook #worldwar2 #darkroom #Analog #vogue #News

Darkroom Assistant’s Scrapboook Contains Unseen Photos Taken by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton https://petapixel.com/2026/04/08/darkroom-assistants-scrapboook-contains-unseen-photos-taken-by-lee-miller-and-cecil-beaton/ #oxforduniversity #secondworldwar #photoarchive #acquisition #cecilbeaton #photoalbum #leemiller #scrapbook #worldwar2 #darkroom #Analog #vogue #News

Darkroom Assistant’s Scrapboook Contains Unseen Photos Taken by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton https://petapixel.com/2026/04/08/darkroom-assistants-scrapboook-contains-unseen-photos-taken-by-lee-miller-and-cecil-beaton/ #oxforduniversity #secondworldwar #photoarchive #acquisition #cecilbeaton #photoalbum #leemiller #scrapbook #worldwar2 #darkroom #Analog #vogue #News

An evening well spent in the photo basement lab: Preparing new ferric oxalate and silver nitrate sensitizer part solutions from scratch, pH testing and logging state of various other fresh processing chems, filtering solutions, doing a bunch of test strips... and a lot of waiting in between (emulsion takes around 1h to dry, then up to 20 mins exposure), good time chunks for researching...

Still on the quest to achieve cooler & deeper tones, but also quite happy about the new deep & smooth black/brown I discovered along the way. Learning about dichromates and impact on graininess... In the larger picture, the aim is to narrow down the number of variables to tweak the overall fiddly Kallitype process to be as predictable as it allows or is feasible, from controlling &n documenting the age of solutions, temperature ranges, air humidity (for paper), duration of processing steps, concentrations, pH values, filtration/contaminants, and, and, and...

#AltProces #Kallitype #Darkroom #DarkroomPrint #AnalogPhotography #PrintMaking #FineArt

An evening well spent in the photo basement lab: Preparing new ferric oxalate and silver nitrate sensitizer part solutions from scratch, pH testing and logging state of various other fresh processing chems, filtering solutions, doing a bunch of test strips... and a lot of waiting in between (emulsion takes around 1h to dry, then up to 20 mins exposure), good time chunks for researching...

Still on the quest to achieve cooler & deeper tones, but also quite happy about the new deep & smooth black/brown I discovered along the way. Learning about dichromates and impact on graininess... In the larger picture, the aim is to narrow down the number of variables to tweak the overall fiddly Kallitype process to be as predictable as it allows or is feasible, from controlling &n documenting the age of solutions, temperature ranges, air humidity (for paper), duration of processing steps, concentrations, pH values, filtration/contaminants, and, and, and...

#AltProces #Kallitype #Darkroom #DarkroomPrint #AnalogPhotography #PrintMaking #FineArt

An evening well spent in the photo basement lab: Preparing new ferric oxalate and silver nitrate sensitizer part solutions from scratch, pH testing and logging state of various other fresh processing chems, filtering solutions, doing a bunch of test strips... and a lot of waiting in between (emulsion takes around 1h to dry, then up to 20 mins exposure), good time chunks for researching...

Still on the quest to achieve cooler & deeper tones, but also quite happy about the new deep & smooth black/brown I discovered along the way. Learning about dichromates and impact on graininess... In the larger picture, the aim is to narrow down the number of variables to tweak the overall fiddly Kallitype process to be as predictable as it allows or is feasible, from controlling &n documenting the age of solutions, temperature ranges, air humidity (for paper), duration of processing steps, concentrations, pH values, filtration/contaminants, and, and, and...

#AltProces #Kallitype #Darkroom #DarkroomPrint #AnalogPhotography #PrintMaking #FineArt

An evening well spent in the photo basement lab: Preparing new ferric oxalate and silver nitrate sensitizer part solutions from scratch, pH testing and logging state of various other fresh processing chems, filtering solutions, doing a bunch of test strips... and a lot of waiting in between (emulsion takes around 1h to dry, then up to 20 mins exposure), good time chunks for researching...

Still on the quest to achieve cooler & deeper tones, but also quite happy about the new deep & smooth black/brown I discovered along the way. Learning about dichromates and impact on graininess... In the larger picture, the aim is to narrow down the number of variables to tweak the overall fiddly Kallitype process to be as predictable as it allows or is feasible, from controlling &n documenting the age of solutions, temperature ranges, air humidity (for paper), duration of processing steps, concentrations, pH values, filtration/contaminants, and, and, and...

#AltProces #Kallitype #Darkroom #DarkroomPrint #AnalogPhotography #PrintMaking #FineArt

An evening well spent in the photo basement lab: Preparing new ferric oxalate and silver nitrate sensitizer part solutions from scratch, pH testing and logging state of various other fresh processing chems, filtering solutions, doing a bunch of test strips... and a lot of waiting in between (emulsion takes around 1h to dry, then up to 20 mins exposure), good time chunks for researching...

Still on the quest to achieve cooler & deeper tones, but also quite happy about the new deep & smooth black/brown I discovered along the way. Learning about dichromates and impact on graininess... In the larger picture, the aim is to narrow down the number of variables to tweak the overall fiddly Kallitype process to be as predictable as it allows or is feasible, from controlling &n documenting the age of solutions, temperature ranges, air humidity (for paper), duration of processing steps, concentrations, pH values, filtration/contaminants, and, and, and...

#AltProces #Kallitype #Darkroom #DarkroomPrint #AnalogPhotography #PrintMaking #FineArt

Ce soir, c'est #cinema ? Ça m'étonnerait, va falloir décaler, je dis ça, je dis rien.

#DarkRoom #LaboPhoto #Chimie #Film #ILoveFilm #HarmanAzure

Donc, ce soir, j'ai installé mon ruban led inactinique. Pour ça, vu que c'est en 2 parties, j'ai du couper mon ruban led et faire les connexions avec des fils électriques. Un peu de soudure et une protection par une gaine thermorétractable, et c'est fait. Enfin, ça parait vite fait de le dire, faut juste un peu de patience cômême.

#DarkRoom #LaboPhoto #Bricolage #Soudure #FaitMaison

Donc, ce soir, j'ai installé mon ruban led inactinique. Pour ça, vu que c'est en 2 parties, j'ai du couper mon ruban led et faire les connexions avec des fils électriques. Un peu de soudure et une protection par une gaine thermorétractable, et c'est fait. Enfin, ça parait vite fait de le dire, faut juste un peu de patience cômême.

#DarkRoom #LaboPhoto #Bricolage #Soudure #FaitMaison

Donc, ce soir, j'ai installé mon ruban led inactinique. Pour ça, vu que c'est en 2 parties, j'ai du couper mon ruban led et faire les connexions avec des fils électriques. Un peu de soudure et une protection par une gaine thermorétractable, et c'est fait. Enfin, ça parait vite fait de le dire, faut juste un peu de patience cômême.

#DarkRoom #LaboPhoto #Bricolage #Soudure #FaitMaison

Donc, ce soir, j'ai installé mon ruban led inactinique. Pour ça, vu que c'est en 2 parties, j'ai du couper mon ruban led et faire les connexions avec des fils électriques. Un peu de soudure et une protection par une gaine thermorétractable, et c'est fait. Enfin, ça parait vite fait de le dire, faut juste un peu de patience cômême.

#DarkRoom #LaboPhoto #Bricolage #Soudure #FaitMaison