dimanche 4 décembre 2016

Essential Principles On Darkroom Equipment And Set Up

By Amy Davis


Photography is just so much fun that it is a hobby and art that people invest on. This have been around for a long time and the equipment has continued and continues to evolve. For those who have tried to take up any sort of art, you would know that any type of hobby would cost some money, especially if you want the best kind of equipment.

The most manual way of producing photos using film needs a specially constructed room. The darkroom is where negatives get developed and come out as beautiful images. Now you may think that there is little need for darkroom equipment these days since everything has gone digital. But there would always be the novelty of being able to process your photos the old fashion way.

There are many good reasons that film photography has been making a comeback lately. The reason could be preserving the art itself. With the number of digital software and applications, there would be little need to learn how to manually produce certain filters and effects that you want for certain photos.

This helps you realize that image development really is no easy feat. Building you own darkroom takes, study, precision and discipline, again, just as all forms of art. Being to practice the post production process in a more organic and rooted way can greatly help you appreciate the making of digital software that help manipulate photos become more convenient.

First you need a water supply. Balancing temperatures is the key to getting the pictures to come out right. While this can be rather expensive, if you are an amateur your would do well to learn how to be attentive to temperatures instead.

Firstly, the place is called darkroom because there has to be no light, to get in the room when working with the film. Even the smallest sliver and exposure to it can ruin the negative. Just as it would happen, if there are no crevices for the light to come in, good ventilation may then be an issue. There is a work around for this and it works a lot like a chimney.

Four kinds of lighting is needed to setup the perfect darkroom. These would include the safelights, enlarger, white and no lights at all. When you start working with with minimal vision, that is when you would start to appreciate programs such as lightroom. The attention t detail and meticulousness needed for the process can be daunting.

While it may be called a darkroom, you would still need ordinary white florescent lighting because who can clean up any mess when you can't see anything, right. This is needed for choosing which negatives you would want to develop, inspecting finished print and basically seeing what is going on around you once you are done with staying in perpetual darkness.

Safe and enlarger lights are used when working with photographic paper since this needs to be handled with certain colored lights. The enlarger light is a specialized projector that can emphasize the transparency of the photo. Apart from the lighting, as mentioned earlier, temperature needs to be at a certain level. This is preferably at 65 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit.




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