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I think you have done a very good job. 👍👍👍

I’m am certain, knowing how careful you are, and informed you always are, that you are not only using acid free paper/mat materials, but also archival acid free tape, right? Of course you are, Ari. I know you thought of that. Yes. Silly me. I mean, you wouldn’t be using regular masking tape or frog painters tape, nawww. You wouldn’t know to use acid free archival tape. Yes. Because you’re completely aware that tape gum and paper backing are very high in non acid free chemicals and even one inch piece of tape can leech “brown” or rust colour into the acid free chemicals”book” you carefully constructed. But you know all this. Also that leeching can happen over a matter of years. Good, just wanted to be sure. 😉😉lol Love your videos always and your cynical humour.

Love it. Weekly inspiration. In the middle od some work deadlines but once through those I have some more printing to do.

I consistently enjoy your videos and conversations about photography. Always inspiring.

The Rolleiflex is just enough for most medium format or photography in general. I use it to do many of my street photography shots and landscape photos.

"Dust is such an enemy of photography". I think we can all agree! Thanks so much for sharing your process.

Super interesting.

Ari, great video! Do you use a special archival tape for mounting your prints?

any tip on how to avoid the darkslide from jamming with the paper (when inserting darkslide after taking the photo)? ive gotten a few successful shots, but a handful didn’t work out because the darkslide got caught with the paper and crumpled it up

Do you choose the color of your frame and the mounting paper, depending on the photograph?

Thank you for sharing, Ari. I am a film photographer, 35mm only. I go as far as developing, scanning, and then preparing selected 'files' for an online printer... but Boy! You go the whole hog. It is very pleasing to see your meticulous and painstaking work. The final printed frames are priceless. Take a bow, Sir!

Totally agree with you Ari in that it takes a lot of time to get to the final framed print, but it's worth it in the end. Love that shot of the reeds in the water.

I enjoyed following your process. Your matting and framing process is exactly the same as mine. I have many framed prints around the house that were matted and framed this way. They’ve never come undone or gotten off kilter.

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Great work, Ari. I don't have a dark room to print my own photos but I have started sending a few out for printing to a lab and I completely agree that a photo isn't really a photo until it's printed and hung on a wall.

I'd love to have a bit of space to print my own images in a darkroom .Scans just fall a bit short 😂

Lovely images look wonderful in the frames

Great video, Ari.

great video for my inspiration, i got lazy lately with my analog process, havent done a photo in a while. Regards from Austria

You took us away on a magical mystery tour of your creative process.

Fabulous! My darkroom is too cold right now but soon...... Thanks Ari, great seeing your process and wonderful images.

Great stuff Ari. I started with Peerless, but I've since switched to Marshall's Spot-All liquid which I find better and easier to use. Have you thought of dry mounting your prints? I was put off for a long time by the cost of the Bienfang heat presses, but for about 1/10th of the price I bought one of those heat presses that fix transfers to T shirts. Works perfectly!

Nice work. Be sure to post on threads when you get sexist remarks about your process from the old timers. Is it just perspective or do you work on your knees at enlarger, it looks like table is barely off the floor.

Heheee. Thats the content what im wayting for but not allways, just ewery naw and then. Thank you m8. 😊

Such a significant part of your processing Ari thanks for sharing this peak into your printing/touch up/framing processes. Would look forward to a peak behind the curtain of your dodging/burning. Hey - your notebook must be worth a fortune but curious how you connect those "recipes" with a final end result you achieved. Is it pure memory of the print that came out of that particular page or . . . . . .???? While my photography doesnt rise to anywhere near the same level as your work, I do some woodworking that might come close and - to your point - I've been offered compensation to build some of these pieces (which I currently only do for family) by various friends or acquaintances. In each case the "buyers" are astonished to hear JUST the cost of materials (forget my time)! They always walk away shaking their heads and saying "I had no idea!" It feels as though, our modern society has a tendency to move consumers further and further away from the processes of producing/growing/fabricating/repairing for themselves - and the appreciation of "value" ends up being in a constant state of decline. Everything is "cheap" - right?

Very interesting episode.👍👍 well worth keeping for future reference........Thank you...

Wow! I didn’t realize so much went into developing and printing at home. I feel like mechanically I could possibly do it, with many trials and errors! I don’t know if I would be stressing out or end up with the patience of a saint! Hahaha Thank you for a revealing insight!

I am first! 😊 Thank you very much! Interesting to follow your process! ! Why do you use fiber paper instead of RC ? Kind regards from Sweden!

Hi, have you done any comparison of your prints from the traditional enlarger vs from a modern printer? Would like to know your observations on both. Thanks. Btw 30mins of running water for washing is quite a lot of water! Hope you saved it for other uses. Ha

Statistically seen these theories about how early childhood, environment or language determine us may be right. But when we look closer we see that everyone is different. We all have probably more potential for flexibility than we use. Now the interesting thing about photography (and painting or music) is that you just can follow you intuition and spontaeously create -- and then afterwards(!) you or someone else can analyse it as a specific style. But trying to design a style kills your creativity. I am sometimes -- negatively -- amazed about some artists who just repeat the same idea over and over again because they think that is their "style". But in fact their potential for creativity has been used up... -- I would say: Don't cultivate your style. Try inventing yourself new every day.

This one has really got me thinking. On the one hand I completely agree with you, the image must be king. However, in another younger life I was a keen wildlife photographer in Africa. I could take beautiful images of anything, big or small. But, the ones that gathered most attention and praise were usually those featuring the big cats etc. Their own majesty seems to lift the image and infuse it with an x factor. Now I am not trying to compare myself with Dennis Stock, but does James Dean do the same, maybe. I guess the answer is what is your perspective on the image, the one popular with other people, or the one you like most. What was Dennis Stock trying to do, the best image he could, or the best image of James Dean that he could. These clearly aren't always the same thing. I reckon I have reached the time of life where it's what I like most that counts most for me. Thanks as always Ari, thought provoking and indeed helpful.

Very interesting 👍

Very nice! And i see we have similar tastes in music 😎

Great equipment😊

Always a pleasure to see your videos and listen to your thoughts. Great work, beautiful images.

Ari, can you suggest an enlarger for me? I wish to print 120 and 35mm film. Thank you in advance.❤

I feel about the same as you regarding negative size and number of frames/roll. 35mm is too small a frame and too many of them, though the latter problem can be alleviated by bulk loading film into smaller rolls. I tend to develop in Rodinal which gives sharp grain which is quite a pleasing look in medium format but often too strong in 35. I do shoot 35mm and 4x5 but my absolute favorite is 120, to me it's the perfect compromise between image quality, price and convenience. My extremes when it comes to cameras are in the hi-fi end a Mamiya RB67 and in the lo-fi end a bunch of simple old cameras like folders, box cameras and a Lubitel 2 SLR. My solution to the lack of exposure control is to use my lo-fi-cameras in strong light, B&W film is extremely tolerant of over erxposure so too much light is seldom a problem.

I agree with you👍

By the way... Great video!

I love minimalism. For me it is a source of peaceful thoughts..., and also a part of my very being... Fundamental to our existence.., That's what i try to convey in my photos...

- 99% of pictures I was/am also a handheld guy... even more with 135/fullframe. Here a tripod kills the speed. - i use a monopod with long lenses (>=300mm) and with my Bronica GS-1 (6x6, 6x7, 24x69) since 2-3 years That is a good compromise and helps with more light you need for medium format (lens speed/demand) and the mirrored viewfinder view. - With 9x12 monorail (and heavy Fuji GX680) I use tripod - there is no other way - especially with movement. - The Newly added Zeiss Ikontas i use just handheld, the Linhof Technika III is a borderline thing. Monopod or tripod or handheld.

As always: so clearly presented and based solidly on your own specific work flow/experiences. The beauty is that we can all learn the larger lessons even if our own flow is very different. Your Rollei focus scale vs. Mamiya TLR comment sent me running to my C220f. The primitive, little scale on the side DOES provide a handhold for scale focusing. I'm going to experiment today! Like you, with glasses, I so much prefer the WLF, the bigger negs of 120 & large format. My Canon VL (zone-focused + parallax-correcting, Canon accessory viewfinder) does the trick for me when even greater flexibility/compactness is desired. In the end, our cameras are WAY more fun to use when they fit the "right tool for the job" sensibility and image needs. It has been a long, but satisfying, journey for me to get to where I am now. Delightful journey!!!!

For a local walk I'll typically take just one camera with me, depending on what I expect to see or what I'm looking for. So earlier today I was out along the Bow River looking for mist rising off the water, done as a long exposure. It was about -20 C with a brisk wind, so there was no screwing around. I was dressed for it, but it's hard to operate a camera with mittens, or even gloves on. I am pretty familiar with the area, and knew what I wanted. This was done with the GW690 and Delta 100. I'm going downstairs in a minute to develop it. Even paid sessions like a race or event, there's typically just two lenses, a 24-105 and a 70-200. My problem comes when I'm traveling and want to take all the cameras and all the lenses, so on any give walk while there I can pick the appropriate choice. It makes air travel a bit tense, especially travelling with film, always wondering how much to take. So far the security people have been really good.

Remember the hifi nerds back in the 70s who bought special records to demo the frequency range of their speakers? They had little interest in music and I suspect that more than a few 'pixel peepers' have little interest in photography.

I have a rolleiflex and I just learned about the focus indicator 🤯

Not so strange that many amateurs talk about gear. They are mediocre to bad photographers.

Ari has no secret methods! I'ts called work. Hard work! Made easy by dedication..I use anything! Yes I have a Rollei! An Automat. But I am not you! My least used box! I see images everywhere! Carry as lttle as possible. No 3 legged beast that is paralyzed.. Dad's image superb.My Saturday gift! Bravo Ari!

We have found that photographer Ari and its YOU!

Select a camera is not really accurate to me: there are 2 steps here: format and lens. So I think we have 2 things: format+lens and film+developper. But I would add another step: prints or scan, and in prints which process: kallitype, cyanotype, fiber paper. All depends on the project. For some projects I know everything, for other projects: I start with phone or medium format, then I come back with large format. Holga is less flexible cos it works only with very sunny days

You’ve got some great photos of dear Dad❤😊