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Photoshop is technique and is just as relavent to photography as wet developing.
Getting a certain "look"
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Photoshop is technique and is just as relavent to photography as wet developing.
shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
Sure.
In fact it's far easier than that, with the darkroom you'd better know what you're doing otherwise you'd be spending a lot of time without anything to show for. 😀
ddutchison
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If you care a lot about how your prints look, you can easily spend as much time on an image in the computer as would have in the darkroom - maybe even more since you have more choices.
I would say that the number of pictures on his blog better represents his capacity to work hard.
BTW, he's presently talking about film development, in detail, on the front page of his blog - if that doesn't answer your questions, then I third the suggestion that you email him.
Thanks for introducing me to this photographer.
Dylan Hope
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Kinda long post, but...
Kinda long post, but...
Severin Koller doesn't really say a whole lot about his methods in his newer posts. I know that he prefers 60's lenses (Though he recently sent back his M6 to the person he borrowed it from and now uses a Hexar AF), shoots Tri-X, Acros and Plus-X, which he soups in XTOL, for his personal work, with some Portra-160NC. Professionally, he mostly shot with the latest 5D model of the time but that work doesn't really end up on the blog so much anymore.
From what I've read in in some images on his DeviantART and his blogs, he tends to not to develop at box speed, preferring to push it a little (He didn't like the tones so much, this was back in '09 he tried a few shots developed according to spec). Back in 2009, I think his workflow was something like;
Plus-X - 21.C, 8:30-8:45
Tri-X - 21.C, 9:20-9:30
With agitation for ten seconds every thirty seconds.
Though he said he doesn't do that so much anymore. At least, this is what I've gleamed from his replies in German on that page (He tends to be more open with comments in German but that might be because he knows the people)
His negs themselves seem pretty contrasty too, like in this example but that might just be my relative freshness to the variables of developing
Anyway, if he replies I'd love to know how he does it, it'd really help with me coming to grips with film developing since I've been a fan of work since before I even knew his name.
Kinda long post, but...
Severin Koller doesn't really say a whole lot about his methods in his newer posts. I know that he prefers 60's lenses (Though he recently sent back his M6 to the person he borrowed it from and now uses a Hexar AF), shoots Tri-X, Acros and Plus-X, which he soups in XTOL, for his personal work, with some Portra-160NC. Professionally, he mostly shot with the latest 5D model of the time but that work doesn't really end up on the blog so much anymore.
From what I've read in in some images on his DeviantART and his blogs, he tends to not to develop at box speed, preferring to push it a little (He didn't like the tones so much, this was back in '09 he tried a few shots developed according to spec). Back in 2009, I think his workflow was something like;
Plus-X - 21.C, 8:30-8:45
Tri-X - 21.C, 9:20-9:30
With agitation for ten seconds every thirty seconds.
Though he said he doesn't do that so much anymore. At least, this is what I've gleamed from his replies in German on that page (He tends to be more open with comments in German but that might be because he knows the people)
His negs themselves seem pretty contrasty too, like in this example but that might just be my relative freshness to the variables of developing
Anyway, if he replies I'd love to know how he does it, it'd really help with me coming to grips with film developing since I've been a fan of work since before I even knew his name.
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