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I work mainly in black and
white
silver photography. Digital imaging is fine but I much prefer the
feel and the process of film and a traditional wet darkroom. I
shoot mainly
with 35 mm equipment, most of it 30 - 50 years old. I also use a
diffraction (or pinhole) camera that takes 126 film. I use Ilford
FP-4+ film and Ilford papers. The film I develop in Kodak XTOL
and the paper in an Agfa developer which is being discontinued, as is
nearly everything in non-digital photography.
Although these images are "black and white" they actually contain
many hues. Sometimes this is a difference in the paper
(especially the tonality of the silver, which can range from a very
"warm" brownish-black to a very "cold" blue-black. More often,
its a result of toning the silver image itself. I often create a
brown and black "split tone" by partially toning the intermediate greys
with sepia toner while leaving the deepest blacks as black. |
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