The technical information is clear and concise, starting with deisinging and euqipping a darkroom and continues through making the first print, end...
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Oct 12, 2007
Gwen
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This book covers what happens in the dark room. This really is my favorite part personally so I'm going to be totally biased, I'm going to say that up front. Printing is the best part because you can do whatever you want with the negative that you took and to be honest, I think that Adams is rather boring with his advice in this book.
It's a good ground work for setting up the basics for doing black and white printing. If you want to learn to recrate an Ansel Adams print in your own d More...
It's a good ground work for setting up the basics for doing black and white printing. If you want to learn to recrate an Ansel Adams print in your own d More...
Oct 21, 2008
Kenneth
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A detailed technical book on printing photographs pre-digital with wet chemicals. It reminded me of printing photographs in friends houses and the excitement of seeing photographs slowly appear on the paper. I only did it at a very simple level. It was wonderfully messy and smelly too. A lot of the issues discussed by Adams are as relevant in digital printing today as they were when Ansel Adams was using silver halide processes.
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