16 February, 2024
Trying Darkroom Printing for the First Time
Well, it’s been quite a journey down the rabbit-hole of film photography! Can you believe it’s been over a year since I first started? I’ve gone from writing &...
2 February, 2024
F-Stop Printing in the Darkroom
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 th...
12 April, 2022
The Joy of Small Prints – by Sroyon
Big photographs are impressive. From 1950 to 1990, New York's Grand Central Terminal had a changing display of 60×18 feet (18×5.5 m) backlit transparencies. This display was a K...
Most major manufacturers of film and photographic paper release datasheets with technical details about their product. If you've ever looked at such a datasheet, you may have se...
26 January, 2022
Building a Darkroom From the Ground Up – By Katie Cooper
Lockdown 2020 was a blessing in (a very big) disguise, as it gave me the opportunity to research, build and begin work on creating a darkroom.
My passion for analogue photograp...
31 October, 2021
Analogue Upcycle – by Laura Cogan
Here lies a tale of perseverance and victory. You see I'm a self proclaimed ideas person, it's on my CV and everything so it must be true. The unfortunate thing is I'm not so go...
25 October, 2021
Contrast and Tonality Part 2: The Curves Tool, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Contrast – By Sroyon
In Part 1 of this three-part series, I used histograms of famous photographs to introduce some fundamental ideas about contrast and tonality. In this part I’ll talk about ...
20 September, 2021
Contrast and Tonality Part 1: Histograms of Famous Photographs and What They Can Teach Us – By Sroyon
Let’s face it, “analysing” photos with histograms can only take us so far. A hundred years later, people may or may not look at your photographs and gasp in ad...