My darkroom printing routine
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- Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2016
- Showing a bit of my usual darkroom routine: split filter printing, dodging, burning, selenium toning, spot toning and matting ... making it absolutely perfect :)
Print from Ilford Delta 100 film, shot with a Yashica-D camera on Ilford fiber-based matte paper
Nice to see that younger generation apply tradititional darkroom tricks. I miss my darkroom very much. And the smell of developer and fix.
I miss it all except for Kodak Sepia Toner! (rotten eggs smell)
I cannot believe what I just watched! That was incredible, I can't wait to just make my first print, let alone dodge and burn. Thank you.
Many compliments indeed. I'm very impressed of your skills.
Thanks for your inspiration. My darkroom is almost finished! Just ordered my first batch of chemicals and paper today. It's been 18 years since I last printed in a dr.
I quite liked the original,blown out highlights,version so I couldn't imagine what you would want the final,perfect,result to be ... until I saw the final,perfect,result.Really beautiful,actually.
Great video. Tons of work goes into editing, even more to get that perfect print. Its so hard allowing the dry down shift in the paper. I cant wait to get back in the darkroom. :) thanks for sharing.
Best video I have seen by far! Brings back soooooo many memories- I miss the smells and the product and even the wrinkled fingers (which will probably take years off my life - ha)
There's something about seeing the projected image on the paper that gets me
Something so great about printing yourself. Wish I still had a darkroom. :)
Nice, clean darkroom, clean trays, clean process. Approved!
A great video!! Really interesting to see all this dodging and burning. Your work is awesome, and so is this video!
And your blue hair is really cool 😍
Thank you so much )))
Can you print a digital photo to a film negative then use your darkroom process to print it?
DB. Yes, you can.
@@linabessonova do you do services?
Beautiful print. Keep up the good work.
Really cool. I just started with film an my own little Darkroom. Awesome to see how you do it. Never thought about using a shoot for burning in. Crazy almost a tolal exposure time of 60sec. But as u said u did a lot of test prints. I am just glad to finde a right one :D
Beautiful work. I love the darkroom and will be spending more time in one soon. I never knew/thought of changing filters to do the dodging and burning! Very cool :)
Happy you liked it! ))
Great job!! Nice to a young person embrace traditional darkroom printing. Yhea.. you can certainly burn a lot of time in the darkroom if you have a trick neg. I was in mine this past weekend was lucky I had good contract on my image. Notes are always good to take down, in case you want to re-visit that neg later.
keep the good work alive... thumbs up
Thanks for the video. It's always great to learn how others go about their darkroom techniques.
Thank you for watching! :)
Great video and very fun to watch. Thanks for sharing. It looked like you were using fiber based paper. It is hard to judge through the video. But I would have been worried about dry down effect. Just working with some Adox paper at the moment and was blown away that it darkened two stops. But then again every paper is different. Keep up the great work.
You are incredibly talented. I don't just mean with the technical/artistic work you do in the darkroom, but throughout the entire journey of your image. Your initial ideas are amazing, as with this photograph, it's so simple and yet a work of genius. You are obviously going to go a long way, not just for your incredible talent, but also for the very hard work you put in. Those who care about you must be incredibly proud, and I love seeing young people who are willing to work with their talent.
Thank you so much!!!
Mark Harris. Happy squirrel, using "talent" 3 times. Surely it is above all due to the choice of material, experience, insight, and creative, real art work.
I like how you work in the Darkroom ,And the photo is great. Julio from Mexico City.
I would love to see a video on small but useful tricks and tips in the darkroom!
would be super cool to see the scans of both the non-altered print and the final one :)
Great work. I'm trying to decide whether to reset up my darkroom or just sell it all since digital is replacing everything. Inspiring and motivating to see that artists like yourself are still doing their own printing. Thanks!
Digital isn't replacing. It's its own medium. And film is its own medium.
Digital only replaced film in most commercial and most consumer use photography.
WoW that was a fantastic amount of work to get your print the way you wanted it. Looks amazing
Thank you!
Great video. Having only just started to process my negatives at home, it's interesting to see the darkroom technique. You make it look easy :)
Everything is easy when you love it!
Great video! I'm setting up my darkroom at home, for now I'm using my teacher's darkroom. It's so magical when the image starts to show on paper. It doesn't matter how many times I do it, it always feel like magic. You never know if you'll get it right, all the dodging and burning, so much fun.
And I feel the urge to say it: your hair is awesome, if I were to photograph you, I'd break my usual style and shoot in color.
Please, keep the videos coming
Thank you so much!
And biggest of luck with your own darkroom! Having one close to you is always awesome
Thank you Lina. Your videos are inspirational to learn more about this art.
Thank you!
please keep posting videos. I would love to see you shooting your Yashica and what your composition process might be
I really loved this video, thanks for sharing your process with us. I love how printing in the darkroom is such an analog workflow. There are so many different ways to print and to get what you want artistically from the negative. I want to build a darkroom for printing this year, if I can find the right enlarger/kit/price. Cheers!
Best of luck with your darkroom!!!
Great print, loved the final result! I completely agree about spending hours making it perfect but it totally pays off. Just last night I spent about 2 hours on one single 16x20 print but it was well worth it. BTW what are you using for spotting/retouching the dried print?
Always very interesting to watch. Glad I'm not the only one who used double digits of paper to get a finished print :-) Can I ask where you get those "stamping" devices that you use to create an embossed logo\mark on the border? I've been wanting one myself but unsure what they are called or how you get them made with your own stamp? Thanks
I did this in school a little over 20 years ago, 1996-98. I can still remember the smell of the chemicals while watching this. We didn't use the red light though, ours was yellow, unless we were working in color of course, then it was totally pitch black.
The green/yellow light is used for fixed grade paper; the red light has to be used for multi contrast paper (I figured out the hard way 😢)
Fantastic!
Brava!! Very nice video. Can you explain in a next video your method to change contrast on the same primnt? After a film strip test I use only one contrast number, I choice time and dodge and burning but I don’t able to change the contrast number on the enlarger on the same print, could be useful to see an example.
Nice video. Thanks for sharin your technique. What is the tool that you use to burn windows at 5'33?
Awesome! Thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching!
Love your hair Lina! Greeting from Argentina..
Gorgeous print, well done Lina! I'm so lazy about using material to dodge and burn, usually just use my hands. I will endeavour to put more effort in !
Sometimes devices are good, when you need to work around straight lines or burn a particular spot. Otherwise, I use hands too!
Love your blue hair 👍
Liked and subscribed... great darkroom technique, surprised on the matte surface though ?
Whatever you charge for prints, it isn't enough. Great video.
Prices are yet to be figured out, working on a shop now :)
Great shots. Btw what enlarger u use ?
What do you write down in the final print? Also where did you get that stamp? :)
hey lina, what kind of opal bulb you use? how many WATs? I never get over 20 secs of exposure time...otherwise I would burn the shadows..cheers
Nice work as always! Could you make a video on how to frame your work or how to make a passport for the prints as you did in the end of this video from 4:44.
What size do you cut your test strips to?
I'm someone who spent many, many hours in the darkroom. I'm wondering how many prints you made before you were finally satisfied with the results?
Inspiring!
Nice work, what paper do you use?
love the idea of using natural light for evaluating prints.
unfortunately, if final print is not being displayed in similar light, it is likey too dark of a print, and the viewer will miss some of expressive intention.
There has been occasion when I've made a print suitable for display in bright natural light, and then printed a modified version earmarked for indoor display with decent light bulb illumination. Both appear similar in their intended environment, yet side by side while sharing the same light, they have obviously very different values.
final print values are really dependent on the viewing light intensity.
Great video. I think I will go into my darkroom to do some printing...
Thank you! That's a perfect reaction ;) have fun!
nice video and prints and also nice hair color
Thanks! ))
I definitely recommend you don't use pegs on bottom edge of print when hanging up to dry. They will trap water and not allow print to dry evenly. May even stain
I don't use them anymore, this was filmed in a university setting where I basically had no choice. Now I have screens. Actually prints dried quite flat and nicely, but pegs were leaving marks. That annoyed me a lot.
Awesome video! Would you make one on dodging and burning?! Also, what paper do you recommend the most? I know this choice is pretty personal but i am experiencing! Thanks a lot!
Juliana Recart. Ilford Multigrade baryt paper. For archivality, allways use selenium toning after developing and fixing.
Hi Juliana, will post a dodge/burn video within the next days!
Lina. Blue is a royal color. Royals are said to have "blue blood". The mantle of Woden, shamanic god of ecstasy, was blue. In Europe, judicial stones were often blue.
Wow !! I fell in love with your hair , beautiful , beautiful , beautiful .!!!!
Your video brings back memories. That is a good idea to burn and dodge with various contrast filters. Was this your personal darkroom? I like the sink. (Personal comment) I like the color scheme of the red shirt with your hair. Though I am from a different generation I like color. I guess that's why even though I like black & white photography I prefer color.
It's the school darkroom! Now I have mine, and it's all grey and red :D
always use glows when work with print or negative, it is standard for archrival process, nice video
You are right.... it's just SOOO uncomfortable to spot tone in gloves (((
Really hard to use a spotting brush with gloves on.
Try this: Use two pieces of acid-free paper or card to cover the parts of the print where your hands will touch, leaving the area that you want to work on uncovered.
Or cut a hole in one large piece.
Be very careful not to smear the finished parts when you move the paper to work on the next area. The spots dry pretty quickly, but you only have to ruin one print to learn caution. ;-)
How about the chemicals you use. It’s different from developing film. I want to know chemistry for paper use and how you diluted and stuffs. Great video!
It is almost the same as film devoloping when it comes to chemicals. Developer, stop bath, fixer. You can use the same stop bath and fixer that you use for film for paper. Only the developer is a different one but it is still used the same as film developer. Just read the description paper you get with your developer and you are good to go!
hi Lina.....what do you use at the end of your process?....i saw something like a little press......
It makes an impression of my name on paper!
Can be a nightmare. That's why getting a better negative is so important.
Absolutely! But sometimes the light is difficult, and the negative can't be ideal...
@@linabessonova did you try to pull the negative to make it easier to print?
Lina I really think that I want to make just a few perfect prints of any one image. In my heart a single perfect print would be ideal. Like Picasso would just make one painting. I know that goes against the common practice in our world. People like Micheal Kenna making endless prints for an example. I tend to know what size I envision my print the minute I shoot it. So if I want a 20”x24” print let’s say why would I print 50 8x10 prints. Does this even make sense ?
Nice print. Had trouble understanding this trial and error technique as an established methodology though . Not much technical info here on specs: test strips lost, filter types, times, split, paper type, developer type, negative exposure i.e. N+1, etc. I enjoyed the upbeat little kid music as it looped repetitively and made me dizzy and your I’m a model eye rollings to the side.
There's no established methodology, and two years later I'm still unsure I have a different approach... I just make a print and wait until I hate it and reprint it again haha
All the filters and times are mentioned in the video. Film and paper are in description.
The processing and all that was standard, neutral... no pushing/pulling, no warmtone/cooltone developers... That wasn't really the point anyway
Hi Linna . Where did you study i see is in Firenze. Is there a darkroom that teaches in Firenze?
I am doing a two-year Masters program! It's not only darkroom (sadly:))
Nice Lacoste shirt!
Haha thanks ))
Хороший канал! Жаль что по-английски, может есть русская версия?
If you're interested in reading the techniques of a master printer, please check out the newsletters of the late Fred Picker. He was a photographer and owner operator of Zone VI studios. He was also a great innovator. To check out the newsletters, go to: zonevi.dk/junk/?page_id=1341 Not all 83 are listed, but the first 62 can be read at leisure. For an index to his newsletters, check out: www.jbhphoto.com/articles/zoneindx/znindex.htm Fred Picker is truly missed!
it's a monk's work.
I don't know which i like more; you or your prints. Anyway, it would be a dream to stay with you in the darkroom!
Thank you! Come join a workshop ;)
you are so beautiful! pretty
thanks :))
Hi I always enjoy the videos can we have more
I would love to shoot more and I should... Just darkroom always wins over everything, including video!
Dear Sweet Lina. More videos from your photographic work please. Please for How-To Guide. How to perform a wet kolodion? From scratch. Your recipe.
I don't do alternative techniques FOR NOW :) I want to go step by step and first master the regular bnw darkroom printing.
Lina Bessonova Ahaaa. This can make a series of films about old cameras former Eastern bloc USSR? Of course, using a black-and-white negatives / positives Soviet production. You can buy these at auctions. Apparently overdue but give interesting artistic effects. Kisses :-*
I think you can get to the stage you did without using so much paper, but hey perhaps you are rich..:) Nice videos and nice channel and include yourself in that list...:):)
yea I know I should get into the habit of making more tests before a final print.... just every time I think it will be the final one, and then NOOO something is off... Or next day I see it and want it to look different :)
:-D
every print is a bit different and you can go on and on refining them forever...'AIN'T PHOTOGRAPHY GRAND!!"
Y does everyone who’s a darkroom expert have this accent
side-effects from inhaling fixer too much
Lina Bessonova 😂
The Paper was not fiber based isn't so?
Fiber only! :)
on 4:43 you can see how much it curls, rc dries super flat :)
Don't hate, but I preferred the previous print. You accomplished your goal, just a bit too deeply.
I did this video super long ago, while still at uni. I was trying to get everything too perfect and sometimes overdid it. I'm much easier on all the techniques right now :)
@@linabessonova Hey, no, its art and open to opinion, none wrong none right...Trying to get perfect isn't bad..thx