Tag: darkroom
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My usual workflow for photos has been: But as I’ve started to spend more time with those negatives in the darkroom I’ve noticed something. The prints I make are very different from the scanned negative. Here’s a recent negative: It’s nice enough. But when I followed my normal process for making a split-grade print in…
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Over the winter I’ve been taking a lot of photos of an orchid plant in my back room. Whenever the winter light emerges from our frequently-grey skies I’ll try to take a shot or two. One afternoon in mid-December a thin beam of light snuck through a mostly-closed curtain and hit the orchid just so…
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Although I scan all my negatives so that I can share photos online, I prefer to make prints in the darkroom. I find it to be an engaging technical craft that provides endless things to learn.
