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Hello, What can make my prints more brilliant and add clarity to them? I'm looking for techniques that would add extra white, but also ways of darkening the black tones. So adding overall contrast. This in post production, after the print has been developed. The reason for this is that although I get reasonably good prints, they all still look a bit too greyish. I think a way to do so is to use bleacher. But please come up with other, better ideas.
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Hi all Imagine a pretty dark background with a pretty white subject on the foreground. For example an animal. My aim during development of photo, is to generate very dark spots now only on the subject which is already light. But these spots should have the character of being grainy. So not by adding a liquid on that moment, because liquid is not grainy and rough and could even create small drops which i don't like. It should make a grainy inversion of white to black. So i thought it should be a chemical in powder , not liquid..? Any ideas welcome. Thank you.
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Hi all, I'm reading "the negative" from Ansel Adams. On page 90 , where characteristic curves are compared, he talks about the SEPARATION of values. "Most films today have very long straight-line regions, but if a shoulder is present, you should observe at what zone the separation of values begins to diminish." A. Adams What does he mean by that? Thank you
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Hi Anamedina, For blurred photos you can look at the work of Michael ackerman.
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How to learn film photography on your own? I'm struggling with this question a lot. I would like to learn how proper expose my film in the camera and then develop film and photo. All I need for this I have. A camera, darkroom, and film photography books. I find books about analog photography more interesting then what I can find on the internet. But i have more than 100 books on the subject of film photography. What would yu suggest is a good way to start Have already a little experience but i want to go to the bottom. Thx Lieven
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Hi Moving on, Thanks a lot. I learned a lot from that movie. Hi Alan, Suddenly i remember have tried to open the camera by accident. I underestimated it because i only opened it maybe for 1 millimetre. Now i think i might have caused some fogging as you said... I will try develop one more film and come back with what i find.
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Hi mjferron, What you mean by improper fixing? I did more then 60 seconds of fixing and little bit of agitation in beginning. Should i agitate more or less.. Or is the banding the result of even agitation. Too much in the same direction? Also tried to do the fixing again in hope of banding going away. But there was only a slight improvement. Maybe 20 percent improved...
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hi, I developed my first film with Rodinal. The images on the film appeared, but with strange vertical banding. I read somewhere is possible because of no constant agitation of the Fixer? I used ilford Rapid Fixer. But agitated not constantly for 1 minute.. Here you can see the film. The vertical banding appear on each photo more or less.
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hi all I did the test with the coin. I put a coin on the RC paper and turned off the light even de safelight for 90 seconds. The paper i developed was complete white. So this proves there's no extra light coming into the darkroom. It is now completely dark. But i did a nomal test (60 sec exposure with test strips)and with paper and developed it. 20,40 and 60 seconds bands. Why are the whites , after certain time getting black as well?? You can see the image is still very dark. The exposure must have been too strong. Also used the magenta filter on my Enlarger . Did put it to 100/of the max of 130.
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Dustin McAmera, I read the Ilford text and noticed that my developing temperature was a little higher then it should have. Ilford recommends 20 degrees celsius fo Multigrade developer. My temperature was 23 or even 24. Maybe t caused it far a part. I will try again and lower the temperature with ice cubes.
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hi, i just did some exposures in the darkroom and found all my exposures too dark. Overexposed. Did an exposure of 1 minute light with the enlarger. Developed the photo in Ilford Multigrade developer for 1 minute on Ilford RC `Multigrade paper. The enlargers lens was on f8. Here under you can find aphoto of what i did.
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Hi, I'm looking to find ways to get more amount of grain , but also larger grain than usual you would get or want to get. Before i did digital photography. But for the better grain capabilities i started Film photography. As far i have read you can accomplish this with an amount of tricks and techniques. Developper: use of Rodinal ? Also for high contrast. developing temperature must be higher then indicated. Faster films such as ASA 3200 pushing the film in film development ... ... If you know other interesting developers, please let me know. Also if there exist other techniques...