Darkroom experiments

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 bit about f-stop timing, and the exposure compensation tests at the end. But some of the other stuff, like the expose for the highlights rule, yield rewards even when followed in a general, non-technical way.

35mm Darkroom Experimentation.

Darkroom -Rosanna Jones

Large scale darkroom print made from blood sample

My husband has a very bad memory; he always says that he’ll remember things from his childhood only when told the stories. Memory is a funny thing, some memories are evoked through smell or taste, sometimes I find myself feeling nostalgic and I can’t quite put my finger on what has triggered it.

What is the luminogram process? The Luminogram process is light, directed onto photo paper in the darkroom. About as basic as ‘photography’ can get

Brendan Meadows' use of solarization and photo lab technology to create the portraits in his show IPSEITY creates a shift in the medium itself.

Darkroom// Experimental print// Selective development.

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This was my first photogram experiment in the style of Man Ray. I thoroughly enjoyed exploring this technique and found that I could also incorporate my topic of ‘Close up’ into this st…

student work selective development silver gelatin print

Hannah Fletcher is a photographer without a camera. She combines techniques from the past and experiments to innovate and improve photographic processes

Hand - Sculptural Form. Re-photographed B&W print. I solarised the negative during development with a flash gun. It was printed in the darkroom using Lith developer on Forte warm tone paper. By Jerome Dutton