This weekend I was visited by an old friend from my photojournalism days. I wanted to do some printing with him in my darkroom, and see what he knew since we last worked together so many decades ago. It turns out, I’ve come a long way after those days of overexposing the print, dumping in [...]
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John Loengard’s Age of Silver
One of the most enjoyable articles in a long time: Life Magazine’s photo essay about John Loengard’s brush with famous photographers, including Karsh, HCB, and Feininger. Do you ever get marks on your negatives, and wonder what you did wrong? I was amused by the infamous image of Winston Churchill, held by Karsh himself, showing [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Easing Into Stand Developing
Let’s step back a minute. In my book, “Iridescent Light – The Art of Stand Development“, I made a mistake that is beginning to annoy me, and I take the blame for it. I get several inquiries per week about where to buy ascorbic acid and what type of borax to use, what kind of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Adonal Comes to the Rescue
Do you use Rodinal for your stand developer, but having trouble finding it? Rodinal is a key tool for stand developing film, so we have to keep an eye on what’s going on with our magical formula. When I worked for the USA distributor of Agfa, I remember all kinds of knock off formulas of [...]
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