Thanks Ted for coming to Flagstaff and taking the time to get to know Stephen, Matt, Kristen, and Taylor. As headlined they are one of the greatest labs in existence. Their patience and professionalism are what separates them from most establishments along with their willingness to break the rules. Traditional printing is the most complicated and difficult printing method, yet the laughter that takes place within the confines of HL makes it so enjoyable. This and the following two videos are perhaps some of YOUR best and most spontaneous work to date. Here`s to another successful year for AOP and your channel.
Love the fact that they’re transparent about what they do and they’re happy to show you the process. Photography tends to be too secretive about the process these days and this was a breath of fresh air !
Maybe it's just me but this is the sort of video that I start to watch, pause a few minutes in and then add to my watch later list, only because it's the sort of video that's enjoyable and one you can keep coming back to:)
It has been almost forty years since I worked in a pro photo lab, but this video brought it all back like yesterday... These guys are really refreshing to watch at work, thanks Ted!
so awesome! i'm a student from switzerland and 4 years ago a i found a cheap slr on the street and since then analogue photography is one of my main focuses. i built my own darkroom in the basement, i tried middle format and recently bought a large format camera. a few weeks later a professional gave me her old sinar mono rail system. i wanna learn and experiment so much more but it's really hard to find knowledge. internet and books are my only resources. i really appreciate people like you keeping it alive and spreading so much knowledge. i wanna do the same because people i talk to always show so much enthusiasm for this craft. but on the other hand you see and hear about all the old darkrooms closing down. like every month i get answers like "a yes analog stuff yeah i dont know. there was something but they closed". i wanna build a place similar to hidden light to keep this craft, educate people, work toghether and push it further.
Great Video ! I wish I had such awesome foto lab nearby where I live. It is indeed very cool to follow the printing process (and ask questions and learn), way better than just put film or negatives in the post to send them to a lab. Love the channel!
So great to see P & P printing, and such large prints. Yes, it is expensive but it's gorgeous. I did a series in 8x10 years ago and just loved the process.
Totally the best video from I've seen on youtube about photography. Lots of photographers, like myself, never really got into taking pictures the old way. So this is really cool, informative and great to see a docu like this....you could make a whole series from this....thanks from Denmark, just wonderful !!
You cost me a lot of money! I've bought several cameras you discussed and I recently purchased the Wine Country Filter Adapter and filter set, including the polarizing filter. Love it!!! I've never done any paladium prints, but I've done a ton of silver gelatin prints over the past 50 years. Getting my darkroom back up and running again in my basement. I gutted it and have started over and will hopefully end up with a much better darkroom than I had before.
Can't believe what I just saw! Great atmosphere in that fantastic place. I must go create images worthy of passing through your sinks. Would love to visit while having it done one day.
Really nice documentary sir !!! I love the fact people like u and all these nice people inside this studio ,love sharing their knowledge with younger people like me ,and so like this we can starting slowly slowly evolving what we have inside us ..Thank u sir!
Thanks Ted for another great video about what is probably the premier photo lab in the country! It is nice to see that hard work pays off. Happy Holidays to all!
Great Video your making me think about going back to film. My hasselblad 500 el has been sitting in it's case for 15 years, film here we come. Thanks again for all you do
Thoroughly enjoyed this video of the lab, and, most of all, the people who make the prints. Brings back old memories from my darkroom (which is gathering dust in my garage). Wish they were nearer, so I could visit and join them creating an image.
I was fortunate enough to grow up with a darkroom that my father built onto the back of our garage, two B&W and one color enlarger, a freezer full of film and paper (pan-x and oriental seagull were my favorites) and cameras from 35mm Nikon SLRs to Rollies to Hasselblads and Toyo 4x5 and 8x10s.... My father was the big time landscape photographer and I was the budding musician who just popped off shots with my Nikkormat and printed stuff when I was home from college... I never really appreciated it much until digital came along, and I got back into photography with a vengeance. My father never got digital, computers were just to hard for him to understand in his 60s and 70s and eventually, in frustration, he gave up photography altogether. My father passed away a couple of years ago and I wish I had all of his gear, to start it all up again. I was convinced that film and print were long dead... but man its amazing that this still exists! I think that he would be blown away with how far things have come in just the last few years.
This place looks friggin amazing. I love that anti-"hoard the secrets!" mentality!! AWESOME! If I ever decide to start messing with film, I'll drive up the hill from Phoenix and come see you guys!
Wow, what a wonderful place with true expert people! For old school darkroom printers like me, the returning wave of interest for film photography and darkroom is a good opportunity to value analog practices and transmit our know-how to younger generations. Here, in France, trying to do the same (at my lower scale) as your friends in Flagstaff. Cheers from France, Jean
The Photography Lab series is my favourite bunch of videos to come out of your channel Ted. I would actually love to work at a place like this print lab.
, Hidden Light Labs is such a cool concept...Thanks so much for posting this Ted...I haven't been in a darkroom since my photo classes at UT-Dallas in the early '90's, and now have the urge to do so again...I love the way they allow their customers input and participation in the process...BTW, can one still do CibaChrome?...I haven't heard that process in many moons...Keep up the awesome videos.
Timothy Anderson cibachrome is all but extinct, since the materials are no longer made. I think there are a couple of people who bought a stockpile and are still making prints... maybe 2 or 3 of them.
What a fantastic place, and one I'd love to visit .... or even work at. They are so dedicated to the art form that is photographic printing. Great video Ted ... as always.
Great video. That is my old stomping ground (Flagstaff AZ). I really need to go there and check the lab out. Maybe even buy a camera from them. I'm intrigued by the digital to film to print operation.
I think the sharing "Open Sourcing " in the Analog Community keeps this alive and creative people together. I see Analog Photography as Art also Digital but Analog more because the processes and people. Only think I'd like to "learn" and do is reverse black and white film as slides. But I just don't get the bleaching / re-expose part. I know what it does but I don't know the right chems without mixing stuff all together.
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Thanks Ted for coming to Flagstaff and taking the time to get to know Stephen, Matt, Kristen, and Taylor. As headlined they are one of the greatest labs in existence. Their patience and professionalism are what separates them from most establishments along with their willingness to break the rules. Traditional printing is the most complicated and difficult printing method, yet the laughter that takes place within the confines of HL makes it so enjoyable. This and the following two videos are perhaps some of YOUR best and most spontaneous work to date. Here`s to another successful year for AOP and your channel.
Love the fact that they’re transparent about what they do and they’re happy to show you the process. Photography tends to be too secretive about the process these days and this was a breath of fresh air !
Yep, I love EVERYTHING about this.
Wow, the beautiful quality of those prints were mind blowing.
Maybe it's just me but this is the sort of video that I start to watch, pause a few minutes in and then add to my watch later list, only because it's the sort of video that's enjoyable and one you can keep coming back to:)
It has been almost forty years since I worked in a pro photo lab, but this video brought it all back like yesterday... These guys are really refreshing to watch at work, thanks Ted!
so awesome! i'm a student from switzerland and 4 years ago a i found a cheap slr on the street and since then analogue photography is one of my main focuses. i built my own darkroom in the basement, i tried middle format and recently bought a large format camera. a few weeks later a professional gave me her old sinar mono rail system. i wanna learn and experiment so much more but it's really hard to find knowledge. internet and books are my only resources. i really appreciate people like you keeping it alive and spreading so much knowledge. i wanna do the same because people i talk to always show so much enthusiasm for this craft. but on the other hand you see and hear about all the old darkrooms closing down. like every month i get answers like "a yes analog stuff yeah i dont know. there was something but they closed". i wanna build a place similar to hidden light to keep this craft, educate people, work toghether and push it further.
So glad we all got together in Flagstaff. It's so nice to see work being produced that is truly hand made and worthy of being fine art.
So great to meet you, too! Looking forward to working on more of your images :-)
Great Video ! I wish I had such awesome foto lab nearby where I live. It is indeed very cool to follow the printing process (and ask questions and learn), way better than just put film or negatives in the post to send them to a lab. Love the channel!
THIS IS INCREDIBLE.
So great to see P & P printing, and such large prints. Yes, it is expensive but it's gorgeous. I did a series in 8x10 years ago and just loved the process.
Very cool! Nothing like seeing an image take life in the dark room. Brings back memories.
Totally the best video from I've seen on youtube about photography. Lots of photographers, like myself, never really got into taking pictures the old way. So this is really cool, informative and great to see a docu like this....you could make a whole series from this....thanks from Denmark, just wonderful !!
What a grand place Ted, must be a honor being their customer!
You cost me a lot of money! I've bought several cameras you discussed and I recently purchased the Wine Country Filter
Adapter and filter set, including the polarizing filter. Love it!!! I've never done any paladium prints, but I've done a ton of silver gelatin prints over the past 50 years. Getting my darkroom back up and running again in my basement. I gutted it and have started over and will hopefully end up with a much better darkroom than I had before.
Can't believe what I just saw! Great atmosphere in that fantastic place. I must go create images worthy of passing through your sinks. Would love to visit while having it done one day.
My mother's cousin, Edward Bond, wrote "Blow Up" his father and my grandmother were brother and sister. Absolutely fascinating video.
Talk about an inspiring space to see. Imagine working there!?
Hall's Emporium Yes I could!
Awesome as always Ted, fantastic to see how the guys at Hidden Light work.
Ted, thanks for the video. I will for sure visit them soon. Honestly, I love how diverse and non predictable your content is.
Cool to see palladium print to come life, magic! Thanks for sharing!
Stinking cool Ted. Makes me want to return to film, particularly black and white. Thanks for the video.
Visited Hidden Light this past summer. Great place!
Really nice documentary sir !!! I love the fact people like u and all these nice people inside this studio ,love sharing their knowledge with younger people like me ,and so like this we can starting slowly slowly evolving what we have inside us ..Thank u sir!
Thanks Ted for another great video about what is probably the premier photo lab in the country! It is nice to see that hard work pays off. Happy Holidays to all!
Great Video your making me think about going back to film.
My hasselblad 500 el has been sitting in it's case for 15 years, film here we come.
Thanks again for all you do
I really enjoyed watching this video. This is the coolest lab I've ever seen. Great team and wonderful working atmosphere. Thank you Ted for sharing.
A really interesting video. Can you do few more like this...? Really informative. Best wishes, David in the UK.
What an amazing episode, Ted!! Thank you for sharing the experience with us!
Thoroughly enjoyed this video of the lab, and, most of all, the people who make the prints. Brings back old memories from my darkroom (which is gathering dust in my garage). Wish they were nearer, so I could visit and join them creating an image.
Amazing, really!!! Thanks for showing the lab! And its wonderful 'pack'!
Your podcast is the best man keep doing good work, thanks, man.
I was fortunate enough to grow up with a darkroom that my father built onto the back of our garage, two B&W and one color enlarger, a freezer full of film and paper (pan-x and oriental seagull were my favorites) and cameras from 35mm Nikon SLRs to Rollies to Hasselblads and Toyo 4x5 and 8x10s.... My father was the big time landscape photographer and I was the budding musician who just popped off shots with my Nikkormat and printed stuff when I was home from college... I never really appreciated it much until digital came along, and I got back into photography with a vengeance. My father never got digital, computers were just to hard for him to understand in his 60s and 70s and eventually, in frustration, he gave up photography altogether.
My father passed away a couple of years ago and I wish I had all of his gear, to start it all up again. I was convinced that film and print were long dead... but man its amazing that this still exists! I think that he would be blown away with how far things have come in just the last few years.
Gotta be the coolest photo lab on the planet... Thanks for sharing.
That....was.... awesome!!! Thanks Ted!
So Fantastic ! Thanks so much for thinking of others that love this process and want to see how the lab works these days.
Now this is something truly special. Great content Ted!
So cool Ted. Great to have a printer featured! Really gets me wanting to get in a darkroom again.
This place looks friggin amazing. I love that anti-"hoard the secrets!" mentality!! AWESOME! If I ever decide to start messing with film, I'll drive up the hill from Phoenix and come see you guys!
Thanks for all the great videos! Very educational and informative. Keep up the awesome work!
I live in Phoenix. I could actually drive to this place. Wow!
Wow, those are some magnificent prints! Thanks for the cool tour; it makes me want to pop a roll into my old AE-1.
Really enjoyed this. As someone just getting into film development, I found it really interesting. Keep up the good work!
Wow, what a wonderful place with true expert people! For old school darkroom printers like me, the returning wave of interest for film photography and darkroom is a good opportunity to value analog practices and transmit our know-how to younger generations. Here, in France, trying to do the same (at my lower scale) as your friends in Flagstaff.
Cheers from France, Jean
One of your best yet, Ted, and I've watched you for a while. I could have watched this for an hour :) cheers.
Wow. Thank you for sharing this. Very awesome to see and awesome prints.
AWESOME to see the processes in the darkroom
Great video. Nice to have a behind the scenes look
The Photography Lab series is my favourite bunch of videos to come out of your channel Ted. I would actually love to work at a place like this print lab.
Awesome! Greetings from a small Photo Lab in Managua, Nicaragua.
Fascinating insight into how the pros do it... thanks for showing it to us.
, Hidden Light Labs is such a cool concept...Thanks so much for posting this Ted...I haven't been in a darkroom since my photo classes at UT-Dallas in the early '90's, and now have the urge to do so again...I love the way they allow their customers input and participation in the process...BTW, can one still do CibaChrome?...I haven't heard that process in many moons...Keep up the awesome videos.
Timothy Anderson cibachrome is all but extinct, since the materials are no longer made. I think there are a couple of people who bought a stockpile and are still making prints... maybe 2 or 3 of them.
Awesome episode! Really good to see high quality prints.
Very cool Lab. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing place ! Wish every city had one.
nice to see it's still alive! We've got nothing of the sorts here in Amsterdam.. :(
Very cool tour and behind the scenes! Thanks for sharing!
What an awesome place!
Awesome Ted. Thank You for sharing.
Ok, this was cool. What a place!
Great video, keep up the good work. I love the platinum/palladium prints !!
Flagstaff in the house!
That place looks so cool!
Coming from the digital age this is a fantastic look into the “old” ways
Amazing! Thank you so much for showing this to us!
Looks like a fantastic place, great to see it
LOVE IT. FANTASTIC VIDEO.
This video gave me an idea for some pictures I took yesterday. Great video.
great video Ted. really good. That would be such a cool place to visit.
Great video! It is interesting to see how it all works. Great channel. Really inspiring. Greetings from germany.
Now thats the pop i was searching for in images....
oh I love the One Step 2 Polaroid, I bought one as well
Fantastic!!!
Really cool video. LOVE this side of photography.
Great video Ted thanks for Sharing. What a great company, now if I only had a shot worthy for them to print
I think I need to plan a trip to Flagstaff. Wow.
Great Vlog! I enjoyed it!
the best channel!!!!
What a fantastic place, and one I'd love to visit .... or even work at. They are so dedicated to the art form that is photographic printing. Great video Ted ... as always.
What an eye opener.love it Thank you for sharing
how i wish we have something like your lab in this part of my world.
Awsome video Ted, if I have the oportunity I'll go around and check it out :)
This was so cool!! Great Video!!
Was this shot on your RX100V, Ted? The AF seems to hunt so much.
What an awesome place
Deeper silver!
Great video.... can’t wait to visit one day.... where’s the “photo assignment “?🤪
Dream job!
Awesome lab!
I had tears in my eyes!
Same reaction…That moment when you're in the UK and you want to go the US just to visit this place…(though we do have some good stuff here too)
Man! I miss the darkroom. I need to dig up my Holga and shoot some film!
Fantastic!
brilliant, we don´t have labs around anymore so much handmade stuff is dying because of internet services or digital etc.
Awesome Man...Dig It!!!
Interesting video, thanks.
OMG！！！Awesome place!!!
Great video!!!
Great video. That is my old stomping ground (Flagstaff AZ). I really need to go there and check the lab out. Maybe even buy a camera from them. I'm intrigued by the digital to film to print operation.
Very interesting!!
I think the sharing "Open Sourcing " in the Analog Community keeps this alive and creative people together. I see Analog Photography as Art also Digital but Analog more because the processes and people. Only think I'd like to "learn" and do is reverse black and white film as slides. But I just don't get the bleaching / re-expose part. I know what it does but I don't know the right chems without mixing stuff all together.