POV: Studio vlog ✿ Home darkroom ✿ Film photographer. Silver gelatin print on WARMTONE FB paper.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Hey!
Welcome back to my darkroom. I'm so happy to share the behind the scenes of these very special portraits. This is why I love shooting film. For all the intricate steps involved.
Enlarger: Intrepid compact enlarger
Enlarger lens: Simmon Omega El-Omegar 75mm f/3.5
Paper: Ilford multigrade warmtone FB 8X10 paper
camera: Rolleiflex T
Film: Ilford HP5 plus B&W 120 film 400 ISO
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I would get so irritated dealing with dry down on FB ,I finally just did the work to figure out the actual time factor needed to ensure the print looked how I wanted after drydown. Then I’d print so it looked great while wet and just subtract the factor for dry down ,saved a lot of paper and aggrevation. I’ve also heard the most recent Ilford MG RC paper is a very good proofing paper with similar enough exposure and paper grade similarity to FB glossy. You can zero in your exposure and grade contrast and dodging burning so you can transfer to FB without so much cost in paper and way less time. I was just on the verge of taking my darkroom down but you’ve inspired me to keep it going👍
your channel is my new absolute favourite channel! i found you via instagram and i am so happy to have arrived here. your videos are so warm and welcoming, and your art is so beautiful and it's so instructive and inspiring to watch you, you clearly love so so much the process and it radiates through. i have wanted to learn to develop and print for a long time and you are making me feel brave enough to try. ☺️ thank you so much for what you are doing, it is a joy to observe you and learn from these videos!! and hello from montreal, canada! - annie
🥹 that makes me so happy! Thank you for such kind words 💗. I’m incredibly grateful to share my darkroom and film journey.
Thank your sharing your darkroom experience. I did Photography at school in the 1970's and have embarked on building a darkroom in my garage in Adelaide, South Australia. I shoot 35mm and am also a camera collector. It's really good to see someone printing photos on paper again. So many people only view photographs on back-lit screens. And some photographers get their films developed at a lab, the scans are sent and they don't even pick up the film, go figure. I would also like to experiment with printing off a smartphone screen in the enlarger. Also glad to see that FB means fibre based and not Facebook. You are the Vivian Maier of the 21st century.
I love Vivian Maier’s work! So that’s a huge compliment 🥹. Thank you 💗.
I’m super grateful for being able to share my film experience. It makes me super happy to share my darkroom with you all.
And thanks for reminding me. I need to scan a lot of negatives 😅. I really tend to push that aside.
This session reminds me so many things I experienced many years ago. Same film, same papers and so many hours to get the better print I could... I think you got a beautiful result and maybe a last print with more care about this line would be the good one. Your photo deserves it. This video could send me back to the darkroom. I think nothing matches the beauty of a FB paper.
Thanks! 🌸 I just got more FB paper… excited to make more prints!
the room is a dream
Thanks! I love it so much!❤
Great photo, great print. It has a lot of emotion and personality, Maggie comes through strong!
Also, hi Vivianna's husband :)
I'm more a fan of matt paper, recently I've been playing with glossy and semi-matt warmtone papers. Glossy is still too much I think but I'm digging the semi-matt, I like the deeper blacks I can get! For the warmtone, I'd suggest to try using warmtone developer and then lightly selenium-tone them (I do like 30s in 1+4 diluted Harman selenium toner). Too much selenium toning seems to make the warmtone prints purple but just a little takes away the greenish cast and I get really beautiful, warm blacks...
Either way, thank you for making these long, patient darkroom printing videos, they're really enjoyable and I think they ought to show new film photographers the beauty of the process...
Thanks!! I’m super happy you liked the print and that you are enjoying my videos ❤️. I’m enjoying making them a lot.
You know, I’ve never tried selenium - tone or any type of toning. I should look into it. Thank you for reminding me.
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
I’m just getting into film photography and it’s amazing to watch someone who has such a talent of making absolute art with film.
That’s awesome! I hope your loving it so far. I was always in awe my first years in photo class and kinda still am. That’s the beauty of film photography. The magic never gets old ✨.
I’m happy to share my darkroom. Thank you for watching.
Wow! And here's a tip. I've seen Aleksey Myakishev use a transparent foil with a black dot on it to dodge, which I think is genius. I just wave my hands with dodging & burning.
Ahh.. that does sound interesting. I’m going to give it a try. Thanks for the tip!
I normally use my hands too when dodging and burning.
@@filmphotovm he was dodging a small pathway in the snow
Your proud expression says it all. You amaze
Thanks!! ☺️ After all these years, I still feel the same awe moments as if it were my first day working in a darkroom. I just love it so!
Thank you for sharing I love the whole process
Just some sugestión, it will be so great that you scan the results of the photos and then added to this videos we can be able way better the quality of the pictures Thanks 🙏🏼
Will do! I think that’s a great idea.
I actually did that for an upcoming video which I will share in September. It’s a project that I can’t share more at the moment but I’m super excited about!
The only reason I didn’t do it before was because I’m super bad about scanning my negatives 😅. I find it be tedious and boring but I agree it would be helpful to do so.
@@filmphotovm awesome thanks for your videos also i love whe you teach us in spanish as well ☺️☺️ but I understand that English is your first language greetings
What needs repairing on your Bessler?
Great video. Learning.
Thanks! It needs a new light bulb. I bought a new one weeks ago but once I turned on the enlarger it popped 🤦🏻♀️. So I’m going to buy a voltage regulator before I get another light bulb. But I also noticed my color filters were off. I’m going to buy a beseler manual so I can better understand the mechanics of those filters. It’s been a hassle.
Maybe a copy stand will make the intrepid more user friendly?
This time around with this different tripod it worked great! But I agree. A copy stand might be better.
They came out very well. It should be easy to get the light seals on your camera replaced, or to do it yourself.
Thanks! 🦋
But I don’t think my camera has any issues with the light seals. I took photos since then and they came out great. No light leaks. I think I must have not closed the roll of film completely tight enough🥲.
I carry rubber bands with me now. To make sure the rolls of film stay tightly wrapped.