Thanks a lot for that videos. I almost forgot these things i learned in my apprenticeship in the 80ies since they become obsolete within the digitalisation at the beginning 90ies. It is like a timetravel. Perhabs i will find a space to build my own darkroom and start again printing, masking and other nice techniques. Unfortunately i throw away so many books and equipment because nobody seems to be interested in analogue techniques any more. Thanks a lot for supporting that kind of revival...
Thank you for your channel and showing different techniques in the darkroom besides the common that every channel has! I am a lover of darkroom printing so your channel should make the difference! Keep it up! 👍
Great!! I took so many attempts in the past to understand masking and failed that I am really looking forward to your next videos and to finally produce masks. Thanks a lot for your efforts.
Many thanks for this, I have been printing B&W and colour for many years but not tried this technique yet. Your videos are a real pleasure to watch as you explain very clearly at a good, relaxed pace with no gimmicks.
Great tutorial, the sharping mask video as well. Any chance to make vid with contrast masks for 35mm or medium format? I’d love to take a glimpse on that, and I believe not only me as there are many users of 35mm/120 I’m losing hope I will ever be able to do this, my Durst enlarger doesn’t have pins :(
I didn't know you could make masks like unsharp and etc in the darkroom... But this video confused me as hell and I am usually very good at technical stuff... Perhaps the next video of you making the mask will help make me understand more! Thanks for making these educational videos :)
oh no more supplies needed hahahah. playing along at home here and still collecting all the chemistry needed from your last video for cleaning my trays and tanks.
@@TheNakedPhotographer I should have everything i need. The potassium permanganate I got was one of the cheapest chemicals to get on the list and came from a ebay seller who supplies it to KOI CARP owners for treating water. still trying to find some cheap potassium dichromate.
Thank you very much for doing this series. I have a registration system from Radeka, and have never used it. Basically, I saw some examples of what you can do with masks, but I can't relate that to my negatives, or what type mask I need to make. I've never known if I need an unsharp mask or any of the contrast ones, etc. Hopefully, you'll have some good examples of the unsharp mask results.
I started using masks to control excess contrast when making Cibachrome prints in the '80s. There was pan masking film and registration punch equipment available then. All that went away, leaving minimal materials and little equipment. I really look forward to this series of videos to update my understanding of what's currently available and techniques. I have little expectation that I can find one, but I'd really like to acquire registration punch of a size compatible with medium format and pins which would fit the registration pins in the carrier of my Durst enlarger.
As someone mentioned above. Lynn Radeka sells such a pin registration system. I bought mine years back and still use it for masking all the time. It works really well and saves time for sure! www.radekaphotography.com/masking.htm
@@matthewkoller4556 I have looked that over several times over the years. By design it intended for 4x5 as smallest format. I've determined no practical way to use his equipment for medium format. If I could, I'd have one set in a flash. I'll look at it again.
Just a followup, from my (extremely limited) experience in making masks -- can you do (or have you done) a video on making cutout masks and posterization masks? I recall being able to make a total no-detail silhouette, and then use that to perfectly cut the background (for a portrait, for instance), as well as being able to do 4-value, 6-value, an even 8-value posterizing. As i recall, this required the A&B developer to get the extremely high contrast the Lith film is designed to produce.
Can you do a video on halftone? I recently got a contact screen in a darkroom lot of junk and I have no idea what, if anything, I can do with it in my home darkroom
Thank you. Looking forward for the next one. I'm excited about mask as it is new to me. My only knowledge is what I've seen from Timi Hall's TH-cam channel but I felt it to be overwhelming for a newbie in this matter. Also interested in the actual hands on technique with the punch systems. I didn't get it from your explanation in this chapter. Could you make a kind of tutorial when you prepare it? Much appreciated
Unless Ortho Lith film is differently sensitized from other ortho films (I don't recall for certain, it's been almost fifty years since I handled it, once, in my high school darkroom), it's sensitive to both blue *and green* light. That was the breakthrough that made film orthochromatic: sensitizing the emulsion to green. Still not the right stuff for masking color negatives, because it (almost completely) ignores red light, but green light will expose it -- meaning some yellow/amber safelights aren't safe for it (and some might be, depends on their wavelength cut).
Contrast masks are among the most powerfull darkroom tools, specially for color. I do them digitally (scanned and print with an inkjet in transparency film) but printer pattern appears at certain magnification. Very curious to see the "chemical" process being performed, I have only read about it. For unsharp masks (the most usual mask) registration is not required.
Thanks a lot for that videos. I almost forgot these things i learned in my apprenticeship in the 80ies since they become obsolete within the digitalisation at the beginning 90ies.
It is like a timetravel. Perhabs i will find a space to build my own darkroom and start again printing, masking and other nice techniques.
Unfortunately i throw away so many books and equipment because nobody seems to be interested in analogue techniques any more.
Thanks a lot for supporting that kind of revival...
This channel is a gold mine, can't wait for the next part :)
Thank you for your channel and showing different techniques in the darkroom besides the common that every channel has! I am a lover of darkroom printing so your channel should make the difference! Keep it up! 👍
Great!! I took so many attempts in the past to understand masking and failed that I am really looking forward to your next videos and to finally produce masks. Thanks a lot for your efforts.
Thank you, for your generosity. Your videos are very helpfully for me. Keep going! 💪
Many thanks for this, I have been printing B&W and colour for many years but not tried this technique yet. Your videos are a real pleasure to watch as you explain very clearly at a good, relaxed pace with no gimmicks.
Clear and detailed introduction, I can’t wait to the second part 🙂.
Thank you...Great ... anxious waiting for the next video
Great tutorial, the sharping mask video as well. Any chance to make vid with contrast masks for 35mm or medium format? I’d love to take a glimpse on that, and I believe not only me as there are many users of 35mm/120
I’m losing hope I will ever be able to do this, my Durst enlarger doesn’t have pins :(
Hello.
I am looking forward to see part 2
And thanks for honoring my earler request for this video.
Excellent! I was hoping you would get to masking. Thanks for all that you do!
I didn't know you could make masks like unsharp and etc in the darkroom... But this video confused me as hell and I am usually very good at technical stuff... Perhaps the next video of you making the mask will help make me understand more!
Thanks for making these educational videos :)
The masks created as Photoshop layers are simulations of real darkroom techniques.
oh no more supplies needed hahahah. playing along at home here and still collecting all the chemistry needed from your last video for cleaning my trays and tanks.
If you have the stuff to make a contact sheet, you’re fine.
@@TheNakedPhotographer I should have everything i need. The potassium permanganate I got was one of the cheapest chemicals to get on the list and came from a ebay seller who supplies it to KOI CARP owners for treating water. still trying to find some cheap potassium dichromate.
Thank you very much for doing this series. I have a registration system from Radeka, and have never used it. Basically, I saw some examples of what you can do with masks, but I can't relate that to my negatives, or what type mask I need to make. I've never known if I need an unsharp mask or any of the contrast ones, etc. Hopefully, you'll have some good examples of the unsharp mask results.
I started using masks to control excess contrast when making Cibachrome prints in the '80s. There was pan masking film and registration punch equipment available then. All that went away, leaving minimal materials and little equipment. I really look forward to this series of videos to update my understanding of what's currently available and techniques. I have little expectation that I can find one, but I'd really like to acquire registration punch of a size compatible with medium format and pins which would fit the registration pins in the carrier of my Durst enlarger.
As someone mentioned above. Lynn Radeka sells such a pin registration system. I bought mine years back and still use it for masking all the time. It works really well and saves time for sure! www.radekaphotography.com/masking.htm
@@matthewkoller4556 I have looked that over several times over the years. By design it intended for 4x5 as smallest format. I've determined no practical way to use his equipment for medium format. If I could, I'd have one set in a flash. I'll look at it again.
@@randallstewart175 I use it on 4x5 and 6x6 negs. It does work for both. I would not go smaller though...
Just a followup, from my (extremely limited) experience in making masks -- can you do (or have you done) a video on making cutout masks and posterization masks? I recall being able to make a total no-detail silhouette, and then use that to perfectly cut the background (for a portrait, for instance), as well as being able to do 4-value, 6-value, an even 8-value posterizing. As i recall, this required the A&B developer to get the extremely high contrast the Lith film is designed to produce.
Can you do a video on halftone? I recently got a contact screen in a darkroom lot of junk and I have no idea what, if anything, I can do with it in my home darkroom
Halftone would be for creating images ready for offset ink printing with a printing press. That moves far from photographic processes
Thank you. Looking forward for the next one. I'm excited about mask as it is new to me. My only knowledge is what I've seen from Timi Hall's TH-cam channel but I felt it to be overwhelming for a newbie in this matter.
Also interested in the actual hands on technique with the punch systems. I didn't get it from your explanation in this chapter. Could you make a kind of tutorial when you prepare it?
Much appreciated
I will show it a bit more in the next part
Unless Ortho Lith film is differently sensitized from other ortho films (I don't recall for certain, it's been almost fifty years since I handled it, once, in my high school darkroom), it's sensitive to both blue *and green* light. That was the breakthrough that made film orthochromatic: sensitizing the emulsion to green. Still not the right stuff for masking color negatives, because it (almost completely) ignores red light, but green light will expose it -- meaning some yellow/amber safelights aren't safe for it (and some might be, depends on their wavelength cut).
Contrast masks are among the most powerfull darkroom tools, specially for color. I do them digitally (scanned and print with an inkjet in transparency film) but printer pattern appears at certain magnification. Very curious to see the "chemical" process being performed, I have only read about it.
For unsharp masks (the most usual mask) registration is not required.
very cool, thanks!
Hi whato about Ilford orthochromatic film ? You have used it? Best regards
I have not, but it should work great
Thank you... ❤