"Old school" photographer at work
Mar 25, 2015 11:50:31 #
I don't usually don't do self portraits but this is something I wanted to do for a while. These are couple of photos I took at my job the other day.
Mar 25, 2015 11:59:43 #
Thank you for posting. I built a darkroom like that once. It was great fun. My drying rack looked almost the same!
Mar 25, 2015 12:14:54 #
Mar 25, 2015 12:21:50 #
Mar 25, 2015 12:23:50 #
Shutter Bugger wrote:
White balance is a bit fishy, and no gloves.... go sit on the naughty chair :D
White balance was difficult. I shot in RAW and tried to get it where I wanted.
I use tongs for RC prints, the vast majority of what I do. I use my hands for fiber prints for handling reasons. I keep a graduate of water near the trays to rinse my hands immediately. I know many people who have done it with few problems.
Mar 25, 2015 12:43:07 #
Darkroom317 wrote:
I don't usually don't do self portraits but this is something I wanted to do for a while. These are couple of photos I took at my job the other day.
Went through that trice. Now I'd rather sit at my computer.
Mar 25, 2015 13:48:29 #
Darkroom317 wrote:
White balance was difficult. I shot in RAW and tried to get it where I wanted.
I use tongs for RC prints, the vast majority of what I do. I use my hands for fiber prints for handling reasons. I keep a graduate of water near the trays to rinse my hands immediately. I know many people who have done it with few problems.
I use tongs for RC prints, the vast majority of what I do. I use my hands for fiber prints for handling reasons. I keep a graduate of water near the trays to rinse my hands immediately. I know many people who have done it with few problems.
Just kidding. I've done a little work in a dark room or two and
often was just too busy or in a hurry to see results to bother
with gloves too
:thumbup:
Mar 25, 2015 14:21:56 #
Shutter Bugger wrote:
So that's why my memory sucks and it so hard to learn new things....... and no gloves.... go sit on the naughty chair :D
Mar 25, 2015 14:38:26 #
And I could imagine getting a good white balance on that image would
be nine point nineskavitch on the degree of difficulty scale.
One way to deal with a recalcitrant white balance: 8-)
be nine point nineskavitch on the degree of difficulty scale.
One way to deal with a recalcitrant white balance: 8-)
Mar 25, 2015 14:42:03 #
bsprague wrote:
So that's why my memory sucks and it so hard to learn new things.
That explains a lot of things... And I thought it was the "pharmaceuticals"
of the 70s that did those things to me:-P
Mar 25, 2015 14:52:38 #
Shutter Bugger wrote:
...often was just too busy or in a hurry to see results to bother
with gloves too :thumbup:
with gloves too :thumbup:
the gloves aren't to protect your lily whites, they rinse off more easily and don't carry chemicals from one part of the processing over into the next.
Mar 25, 2015 17:12:00 #
Darkroom317 wrote:
I don't usually don't do self portraits but this is something I wanted to do for a while. These are couple of photos I took at my job the other day.
Takes me back to High School. THen I spent a lot of years hardly shooting at all because I hated having someone else control how my photos looked. Finally got into digital a few years ago. Loving it, although, when I retire, I might just have to go back to a darkroom setup. We'll see.
Mar 25, 2015 20:04:18 #
oldtigger wrote:
the gloves aren't to protect your lily whites, they rinse off more easily and don't carry chemicals from one part of the processing over into the next.
LOL.
HYDROQUINONE & SODIUM HYDROXIDE are the major components
of developer. You think getting cancer is less of a problem than
contamination of your fixer.
Ilford safety data sheet:
http://www.ilfordphoto.com/healthandsafety/SDSs/2000%20RT%20Developer%201+3.pdf
Keep your "lillie whites" off the keyboard and every one will think you're a dip stick instead of making false posts and proving you're a dip stick.
:thumbup:
Mar 25, 2015 20:08:51 #
Mar 25, 2015 20:25:47 #
Shutter Bugger wrote:
...
HYDROQUINONE & SODIUM HYDROXIDE are the major components of developer. You think getting cancer is less of a problem than contamination of your fixer...
HYDROQUINONE & SODIUM HYDROXIDE are the major components of developer. You think getting cancer is less of a problem than contamination of your fixer...
i'm not sure cancer had been invented back when i was in the darkroom and you needed soft skin to rub in the developer on those trouble spots you missed at the enlarger..
Dangerous stuff just said poison on the label and there weren't any manufacturers fact sheets to read.
Since every household had mercury, cyanide and arsenic we all knew not to drink the stuff.
If you want to reply, then register here. Registration is free and your account is created instantly, so you can post right away.