Exploring Metol Developing Agent and The Historic D-23 Developer Formula
September 30, 2016 - Before I discuss M etol specifically, I thought it would be helpful to provide a quick overview on the role of black and...
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Starting the Design Process For My Dry Plate Drying Box
September 27, 2016 - Now that my new darkroom is completed, I am starting back on my mission to make silver gelatin emulsion from raw materia...
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How To Test Your Fixer In The Darkroom
September 26, 2016 - I get a lot of questions from photographers on how to know if the stop and/or fixing bath has been exhausted.
I don't u...
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The Importance of Aspect Ratio & Why You Should Care
September 25, 2016 - I believe that selecting the proper aspect ratio for your scene or subject, especially in nature and landscape photograp...
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The High-Level Steps For Making Silver Gelatin Emulsions
September 24, 2016 - There are five major steps for creating silver gelatin emulsion and I provide a good summary of each of the steps for yo...
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Understanding & Calculating Relative Depth of Field
September 21, 2016 - Have you ever wanted to compare the depth of field of two different lenses?
I am going to share a very simple formula w...
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How to Make an Eco-Friendly D-76 B&W Film Developer & Why It's Important
September 19, 2016 - In a previous article, I introduced the concept of eco-friendly darkroom chemicals.
One of my favorite developers of al...
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Exploring Some Commercial Eco-Friendly Darkroom Chemicals
September 18, 2016 - As many of my readers know, I live full time off the grid where I live and work in my darkroom.
Not everyone can or wan...
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My Favorite Large Format Photography iPhone App
September 16, 2016 - Who says I don't embrace and like digital technology! My absolute favorite large format photography application for my m...
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Large Format Photography is an Escape From the Modern Busy World
September 15, 2016 - The "slowness" of traditional large format photography is a sort of heaven on earth for me.
The modern world is effecti...
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Darkroom Digest: My Platinum Print Developer
September 14, 2016 - I get a lot of questions about my platinum prints and how I achieve my "look". Long story short, it comes down to a few...
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Darkroom Digest: Black and White Film Developers
September 13, 2016 - I have been developing film in the darkroom for decades. I started developing my black and white film in the darkroom an...
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