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Terry Moore

It sort of worked. Of course, there are probs. I had not had Stearman daylight tray long, and I screwed up loading the negative. That's why the lower left hand corner is messed up -- the film was up out of the fluid in the tray. Portions weren't developed, portions weren't fixed. The reddish color is really there, even after re-fixing.

The neg is thin and the development is uneven on the left. But: the image was still recoverable, with a little cropping.

#darkroom #filmphotography

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een greintje
Thought I'd try something funky to spice this bland photo up: I consciously scratched the negative with a needle to see what it would give in the darkroom.

It's still rather bland, lol.

I like the effect, but I guess nothing (or: not much) can make an underexposed, low-contrasty photo look interesting.

It was worth the experiment though.

(The original picture was shot on Kodak Gold 200, the handprint is on b/w Ilford Multigrade.)

#analog #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm #blackandwhite #darkroom #print #experimental #needle #hotel #scratches
A deliberately scratched picture of a retro looking hotel and restaurant.
#scratches
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tf

The Pleasure of Printing: It’s good to be printing again, it’s been a while, not least because I haven’t produced anything worth printing for some months. But that changed in May, and I managed to carve out some time in the last two weeks to work on three 16x12 prints from our Lewis trip — just finished this morning with some spotting that one of the prints required. 🙂 ... #Photography, #FilmPhotography, #Darkroom: aye.tf/2025/06/07/printing

aye, tf · The Pleasure of PrintingIt’s good to be printing again, it’s been a while, not least because I haven’t produced anything worth printing for some months. But that changed in May, and I managed to carve out some time in the last two weeks to work on three 16x12 prints from our Lewis trip — just finished this morning with some spotting that one of the prints required. 🙂
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Terry Moore

I work with computers all day. After I started processing my 8x10 negs at home, I realized that doing post on my 8x10 was a lot like work. So I decided to try contact printing this week. My chemicals and paper arrived yesterday, but not my contact printer or safelight. So I borrowed same from @bosak and last night, after it got dark (no blackout curtains) I started printing.

This was the neg I started with:

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The negative I decided to try to print.
#photography#darkroom#printing
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Tristan Colgate-McFarlane

This dude found a cheat code for RA4 reversal. A pre-soak kills a chunk of the filtration requirement. I'm wondering if that would also help with RA4 printing #HarmanPhoenix (it essentially counteracts the assumption of an orange film based).
I've never used slide film because I can't print it, but between this and some other tips (oreflash, and low contrast dev), there's a chance.

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