Show Us Your Darkroom #12: Alastair Moore
I’ve mentioned on numerous occasions about my digital workflow which has been the sole method I’ve managed to get my images out of my apartment and into the wider world. I started large format photography with the main intention of…
Show Us Your Darkroom #11: Richard White
My Darkroom My darkroom is definitely my sanctuary. My escape sometimes into a world of creativity. A refuge. For anyone who has never been in one they may think me a little crazy. They may think that I have been…
A rare sighting: Gowlandflex 4×5 twin lens reflex camera
Spotted on Reddit, a rare Gowlandflex 4×5 twin lens reflex camera that was brought into Peace Cameras in Raleigh, North Carolina in the USA by it’s own. The image above, showing it towering over a what looks like a Hasselblad…
Technique: Sekonic L758D and the Zone System by Alex Bond
Visit alexbond.com.au for a very useful post from Alex Bond on using your Sekonic light meter with the zone system. Read more…
Show Us Your Darkroom #10: Danica Chappell
In the colour darkroom My darkroom is where I make colour and it is dark in every sense of the word. It’s a space that I climb into and seal out the light with Velcro and garden plastic. When every…
Show Us Your Darkroom #9: Enrico Scotece
When did it all start? – Well, my first darkroom was an unused granny flat on my Aunt’s property. She was fab – let me convert the whole thing to a darkroom (Yes, the cool Aunty! Where else was I…
An alternative way to scan 8×10 film on an Epson V700 scanner
Epson provides a very flimsy film guide for 8×10 film scanning and to use it you directly place your film onto the glass platter, this results in serious newton rings on the scanned image rendering the finished scan unusable as…
Show Us Your Darkroom #8: Amanda Tomlin
My Darkroom by Amanda Tomlin My current darkroom is only the second one I’ve ever had. The two were separated by 30 years. Way back when I was thinner, sharper, prettier, and younger, so very much younger, the family moved…
Show Us Your Darkroom #7: Ellie Young
I love my darkroom door with the Dali Lama enhancing the entrance (handcrafted from a 20 x 24 contact negative by David Roberts). I love my darkroom – When I am working on my own it provides me with solitude…
The most important cardboard box ever?
It doesn’t look very exciting – a cardboard box about 5in (13cm) tall, covered in leatherette, with a small round opening at the front. You might have some trouble working out what it was for if you didn’t know. But…
