19 January, 2021
NEWS: Ilford Multigrade RC Portfolio – Product Announcement
Some good photography news for 2021, Ilford are releasing a premium version of their popular RC papers "MULTIGRADE RC PORTFOLIO"
18 January, 2021
3 Ways to Make Contact Sheets and What They Can Tell Us – Darkroom Technique Part 6 – by Sroyon
I originally conceived my Darkroom Printing series as a five-part affair, but I figured I'll add more as I learn, especially if I find something that's not covered in most onlin...
Since last year I had this box with 50 sheets of Ilfospeed Multigrade paper in 40x50cm, (16x20 inch), but only one fitting developer tray. So with a lot of time on my hands in t...
So far in this series I’ve only talked about ‘straight printing’, which is to say, no part of the image was locally manipulated. I tweaked exposure and contrast of course, but t...
As I read and learnt more about printing, a mysterious phrase appeared on my radar – split grade (or split filtration) printing. Its advocates claim miraculous benefits – fast a...
20 April, 2020
Cat-and-Mouse with Exposure and Contrast – Darkroom Technique Part 3 – by Sroyon Mukherjee
Part 3 is the most (only?) technical part of my ongoing series about darkroom technique. If you like technical, you’re in for some fun. If you dislike technical, maybe skip the ...
In Part 1 of my ongoing series about darkroom technique, I talked about how to set up a fully-functional darkroom for black-and-white printing – for less than £100, and in a sma...
6 April, 2020
How to Build a Darkroom for £100 or Less – Darkroom Technique Part 1 – by Sroyon Mukherjee
I’ve been shooting film since the late 90s; my father bought me a quirky little National 35 when I was thirteen. But I started darkroom printing just a year and a half ago, in a...