Monday, December 5, 2016

How Darkroom Equipment And Film Photography Works

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.

These days we have the benefit of using different digital means to produce a picture that can match the quality of that developed in a darkroom. Thank you, technology. But more and more people have been trying to take up more organic ways to go about photo development. Getting the right darkroom equipment and processing images in such a method brings back the novelty of the art.

More vintage way of consuming art is making quite the come back. This may be caused by how people want to feel the genuineness of a certain hobby and experiencing its roots. Image development from film has been so much easier since the start of the computer age. Even now, there are phone applications that can process photos as if they were developed in a dark room.

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.

Darkrooms for rent or borrowing may be available but making one, for those who really want to invest on it, can be quite rewarding. Many things need to be noted when it comes building these things. Temperature, light, and ventilation are the main concerns, above everything else. Expect that doing this may cost you some money.

The most obvious reason for this being called a darkroom is how no light should seep in. Now, this could also mean that there would be no fresh air that gets in the room too. Good ventilation is vital for a place like this. A way to do this is to cut a whole from the outside for air to come in from and then cut a hole on the inside. This can be viewed as the same way a chimney works. The brightness may not be able to come in, but air surely does.

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, in essence the place is supposed to be dark some forms of lighting is still required. The three most commonly used are safelights, enlargers and white lights. The fourth mode is no light at all. Whitelight is obviously for being able to see the final results for the prints and cleaning up after the mess. Trying to clean up without this vision is plainly absurd.

Enlarger lights is a special device that helps enlarge, thus the name, the film and make a print out of the photo. Remember that there is also a special kind of sink that needs to be used to soak the photographs in. The water used is also under temperature control. Over all the whole condition of the darkroom requires so much delicate care that even the temperature needs to stay at a certain range.




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