Hey #believeinfilm friends,

In today's guide, John Jones explains the F-Stop darkroom printing workflow:

https://www.analog.cafe/r/f-stop-printing-the-complete-darkroom-workflow-aujf

Unlike timed intervals, the F-Stop method relies on the same math we use on our cameras and offers a much easier way to see the best option in your test strips.

John also talks about dodging and burning via F-Stop and a few tools (including his own) for making the math easier.

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Following up on the curves I posted earlier, I had Claude write Python to turn the S curves into Photoshop-style curves, and animate them from softest to hardest. The results were not what I expected -- not at all a "smooth" evolution from first to last. The "deviation animation" shows how the brightness at each input point differs from an ideal linear 1:1 conversion

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Your photography history post for today: by Eugène Atget (1857-1927), “Boulevard de Strasbourg,” 1912. #photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography #darkroomphotography #darkroom #blackandwhitephotography

From the International Center of Photography “Eugène Atget was a French photographer best known for his photographs of the architecture and streets of Paris. He took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers. Atget began shooting Paris in 1898 using a large format view camera to capture the city in detail. His photographs, many of which were taken at dawn, are notable for their diffuse light and wide views that give a sense of space and ambience. They also document Paris and its rapid changes; many of the areas Atget photographed were soon to be razed as part of massive modernization projects.

Atget’s photographs drew the admiration of a variety of artists, most notably Man Ray, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Man Ray even used one of Atget’s photographs for the cover of his surrealist magazine la Révolution surréaliste. The photographer Berenice Abbott preserved Atget’s prints and negatives and was the first person to exhibit Atget’s work outside of France.”

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I did a series of split-grade density test strips. I tried grade 00 at 20 seconds, plus grade 5 at 5, 7.1, 10, 14.1, 20, 28.3 and 40 ses (half-stop sequence). The results are interesting. You get a range of "paper grades" from about 0 to about 3, but with much different toes (highlight separation is increased) and shoulders (shadow separation is reduced), compared to the base curves.

I'm off to see The Dark Room tomorrow at the Debug Games Festival in Norwich, so I decided to create myself a suitable name badge.

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