July 23, 2021 - As I was building out the new darkroom, I was just about to set up an overhead light source hanging over the workbench f...

April 29, 2021 - In case you didn't already know, I lost my youngest daughter Abigail in a car accident recently. Her sudden and crushing...

February 28, 2020 - After you develop your platinum or platinum and palladium print, you need to be very careful to clear the print before d...

February 05, 2020 - In this article today, I am going to show you how simple it is to make a black and white contact printing setup that you...

October 31, 2019 - In this article, I share a simple method for calculating the exposure compensation for any amount of bellows draw for an...

November 21, 2018 - I get a lot of questions from analog photographers from around the world and one that I have been getting a lot lately i...

July 19, 2018 - My Darkroom Diary series is a monograph about the lessons that I have learned while making large scale black and white f...

August 08, 2017 - In this article, I thought it might be helpful to compare water versus acid-based stop baths and open up the conversatio...

August 07, 2017 - It feels impossible for me to seriously think about silver-based darkroom photography without at least being curious abo...

July 22, 2017 - I was talking to a young and energetic photographer recently and he asked me if I had one piece of advice for new photog...

June 20, 2017 - What is D-23 black and white film developer and why do photographers use it? I will help answer those two questions in...

March 24, 2017 - I have been wanting a longer telephoto lens for many years for my large format view cameras. I needed the reach many tim...

October 02, 2016 - One of the reasons, among many, that I love large format view cameras is the ability to use a single lens for regular an...

October 01, 2016 - I have written about two different black and white developers that I use in previous articles (D76-Eco, D-23-Eco). In th...

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...

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...

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...

September 25, 2016 - I believe that selecting the proper aspect ratio for your scene or subject, especially in nature and landscape photograp...

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...

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...

September 19, 2016 - In a previous article, I introduced the concept of eco-friendly darkroom chemicals. One of my favorite developers of al...

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...

September 16, 2016 - Who says I don't embrace and like digital technology! My absolute favorite large format photography application for my m...

September 15, 2016 - The "slowness" of traditional large format photography is a sort of heaven on earth for me. The modern world is effecti...

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...

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...

September 12, 2015 - In this article, I discuss how to correctly figure out the amount of chemical for the total volume desired to be used fo...