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Film Links: May Edition

Posted on 20 May 2010 by Brian Auer

I like collecting things… cameras, coins (don’t judge me), and photography links. I’ll just be sharing my photography links this time around. In case you’re interested, you can see all my links on Delicious [...]

Tags: Community, cross-processed, film, flickr, grain, LC-A, light, night car, old, road, street, waspmeat, xpro, yellow

strangers in the night

Posted on 19 May 2010 by Tomas Webb

strangers in the night by waspmeat on flickr [Image selected from the group pool.] Again, this is another photo I discovered in my flickr travels and invited into the pool with the intention of highlighting. I realise that the fli [...]

Tags: black and white, chemical, Darkroom, developer, developing, film, film developer, tips, Video

An Overview of Film Developing Chemicals

Posted on 18 May 2010 by Brian Auer

In our last video episode, we showed how to load film in a developing reel. Now that the film is loaded up and safely inside the developing tank, it’s time to get the chemicals ready. But what chemicals do you need? Why choo [...]

Tags: collaborate, film, map, project, resource

Map Your Local Film Shops and Labs

Posted on 17 May 2010 by Brian Auer

A few days back, we had a suggestion via Twitter in response to the post “5 Reasons to Have a Lab Develop Your Film” (from @GrowMyAfro): You could do a followup post on this with reader suggestions for labs around the [...]

Tags: double exposure, film, how to, Inspiration, redscale, sunday, technique

Some thoughts on redscaling

Posted on 16 May 2010 by Tomas Webb

photo credit: Tomas Webb Sometime ago, Brian wrote about redscale on Epic Edits. While I was a died in the wool film user at this point in time, I had yet to try the technique of redscale. And so the hunt was on. Brian explained t [...]

Tags: Darkroom, developing tips, guide, kodak tmax-100, link, phototuts+, step-by-step, Tmax

Step-By-Step Guide to Developing Tmax

Posted on 15 May 2010 by Tomas Webb

We’ve been on a bit of a film developing spree lately, but we haven’t actually covered the actual developing process just yet. Both Brian and I have posts planned for the blog in regards to this area, but since both of [...]

Tags: 400, Community, cross-processed, film, flickr, LC-A RL, LCA, leaves, RL, sensia, sensia 400, silhouette, xpro, `Lomo-Cam

Red Leafy LomoCam

Posted on 14 May 2010 by Tomas Webb

Red Leafy LomoCam by Lomo-Cam on flickr. [Image selected from the flickr group] I took a photo class yesterday. As in taught. And it was pretty random since the teacher who normally does the main teaching in the class was in a mee [...]

Tags: developing, film, lab

5 Reasons to Have a Lab Develop Your Film

Posted on 13 May 2010 by Brian Auer

photo credit: Martin Pettitt I recently wrote about 10 Reasons to Develop Your Own Film. And while I think it’s beneficial for photographers to develop their own film, it may not always be the best answer. The last article s [...]

Tags: agfa, agfa Isoly, cameras, cult, diana, diana clone, Isoly, ultra wide and slim, uws, vivitar, vivitar ultra wide and slim

Cult cameras

Posted on 12 May 2010 by Tomas Webb

photo credit: Batara There are various definitions of the word cult. Of particular interest to us is the identification of a cult consisting of a group who are obsessive about a particular object, often connected with a fad, and t [...]

Tags: contrast, Darkroom, developer, developing tips, film, filter, paper developer, printing, pull, Push, tips

Controlling Print Contrast During Development

Posted on 11 May 2010 by Brian Auer

After we get through the film developing stuff on the video posts, I hope to do some of the same for printing. In the meantime, I’ll continue to touch on little bits and pieces of advice for enlarging in the darkroom. Contra [...]