Description
A comprehensive dark room handbook detail everything needed plus a ton more.
Condition: Used, very good nick, dust cover has a tear in the top middle on the rear.
ISBN: tba
Pages: tba
Here’s the topic list:
Darkroom equipment
The enlarger • Enlarger types • Darkroom layouts • Materials • Chemicals • Papers and films…
Processing your own film
Loading the film tank • Black and white processing • Colour negative processing • Colour slide processing • Washing • Drying • Film care…
Black and white printing
Making a contact sheet • Making a test strip • Enlargements • Assessment • Printing controls • Print finishing…
Colour printing
Making a neg/pos colour contact sheet • Neg/pos enlargement • Assessment • Correction • Making a pos/pos contact sheet • Pos/pos enlargement • Assessment • Correction • Tri-colour printing • Making and using a ring-around…
Basic manipulations
Making black and white slides • Black and white prints from slides • Conversion to line • Using grain • Vignetting • Combination printing • Tone-line • Uneven development • Half-tone screens and overlays • Registration systems • Liquid emulsions • Copying…
Advanced manipulations
Photograms • Using equi-density film • Shape changes • Image distortion • Image diffusion • Line separations • Bas-relief • Colour masking • Shadow masking • Multiple printing • Sandwich printing • Solarization • Posterization • Dye transfer • Pointillism • Silkscreening…
Workroom techniques
Toning • Black and white drawing • Hand colouring • black and white negatives • Hand colouring photographs • Airbrushing • Montage • Hand embroidering photographs • Photo etching • Manipulating instant picture material • Photocopy derivations • 3D images • Colour foils…
Rediscovering old processes
Black and white gum bichromate • Four-colour gum bichromate • Van Dyke brown • Kallitype • Cyanotype • Milk prints…
Appendices
Mixing chemicals • Safety with chemicals • Film brands • Paper types • Formulae • Processing sheet film • Archival processing • Care and materials…
Glossary
Full explanations of all terms used in the book.
