advanced darkroom techniques book

[ath]

Yes it's good. One of the "standards" if such a thing exists.

Yeah, it' s "the standard", I own it and when I'm looking for information I choose another book.
It's dated. The papers are no longer available. It doesn't cover multigrade papers which offer significant advantages. And probably much more.
It's just the way Ansel did it, a long time ago.

 

[Dave Jenkins]

[quote=MichaelW;2060313]Those Lustrum Darkroom books are very good; vol 1 is excellent.

There are also a couple of good Fred Picker books on Zone System and The Fine Print. You should be able to buy any of them for a few dollars on abe.[/quote]

I have the Lustrum Darkroom Vol. 1 book for sale: 1977 First Edition. Very good in very good dust jacket with some corner chipping. Thirteen photographers, including Wynn Bullock, W. Eugene Smith, and Jerry Uelsmann share their black and white processing and printing techniques. $25

I also have Fred Picker material: Zone VI Workshop. 1978 7th printing. Very good hard cover in worn and chipped dust jacket. $5

Picker's Zone VI Newsletters. This is a binder (furnished by Picker) which contains volumes one (August, 1973) through 44 (Sept., 1985) of Picker’s well-known newsletters about black & white photography. It also includes volume 48, a second copy of vol. 37, an 8-page booklet about how to set up and use the Zone VI field camera, a 4x5 that Picker manufactured and sold, and a 16-page booklet about the design and development of his field camera. These newsletters sell for $3 each, when available, so this set is a bargain at $95

And two more publications which might be of help to you:

Editors of Darkroom Techniques Magazine: Mastering Black-and-White Photography. $5

Editors of Photo Techniques Magazine: Advanced B&W Printing. $5

Check out my RFF classified ad at http://www.rangefinderforum.com/pho.../product/37733/title/how-to-photo-books/cat/6

 

[Roger Hicks]

Yeah, it' s "the standard", I own it and when I'm looking for information I choose another book.
It's dated. The papers are no longer available. It doesn't cover multigrade papers which offer significant advantages. And probably much more.
It's just the way Ansel did it, a long time ago.

Dear Andreas,

Succinctly and elegantly phrased. I couldn't agree more.

(Yes, I own it too. And other books on the subject. And have written books on the subject myself.)

Cheers,

R.

 

[KenR]

David Vestal

David Vestal

I second the previous mention of David Vestal's books on photography and printing. The Craft of Photography and The Art of Black and White Printing taught me how to print in the darkroom. None better.

 

[Jonathan]

Larry Bartlett's book is always an inspiration to me. Partly because he is printing from several peoples negs.
Every one a winner!

 

[AlexisNeel]

Fine tuning your printing.

Fine tuning your printing.

Can you recommend me some book with advanced darkroom techniques?

Thanks

I very good in film dev and I can also make good positive from negative but I want to know some "secrets", advanced techniques to improve my skills.

First I'd like to introduce myself as I am new here. I am a Fine Art B&W printer who used to have a lab in San Francisco, working with high end commercial photographers, ad agencies, galleries and museums. I don't do it so much any more as most of my clients have gone digital and I had to close my doors there. My printing styles have been published in several books including Tim Rudmans the World of Lith Printing book, among others.

Anyway, now that I got that out of the way, on to your question. For me, and I can only speak from my own experience, I never read one printing book to get where I was in my printing and my career. Everything was from trial and error, experimenting, and paying attention to what I did and the results I got out of doing it. I am not knocking anyones books, though if I were to recommend a direction of books, I'd suggest suggest reading someone's book who has actually printed other people's negs. Believe me, that will get you more experience than doing anything else. However, the advanced darkroom techniques you search for are usually not printed in anyone's books, if I understand what you are looking for. I am assuming you want to know the little nuances one can do in the darkroom to make that last final step to making an extraordinary print. Well for that there is no stead fast rule as each neg is different and needs it's own finesse to give you all it has on the print.

Anyway, that is my $.02 worth. If you look at my site, you will see some examples of the work I have printed and created for others, client list, their web site, etc. You might have to adjust your monitor some. They look pretty good on my monitor but I always change my monitor settings once I get a new one. Never liked out of the box settings (contrast and brightness mostly). There is a gray scale on the main page to help you.

Good luck and happy printing.

Alexis
http://alexisneel.com

 

[charjohncarter]

£45 isn't "cheap" 🙁

@k_43
"The Darkroom Cookbook" is more a recipe book of developers than a darkroom techniques book isn't it?

I got mine for $8.