Building my darkroom has been a blast. Thanks for sharing yours! You familiar with the DLG Compensating Timer? I'm not affiliated, but it works great! Also, RH Designs Timers does the f-stop method with light meter and temperature compensating. Both are currently made products. Keep on producing insensitive and good energy videos! Friendliness matters.
Wow! You are a wonderful human and an inspiring person. I can resonate with so many things you mentioned in this video: I have been slowly accumulating darkroom and processing equipment (via thrifting/good deals) for just under 2 years now, but I kind of do+don't have a proper space to use them all. (No ventilation for trays but it IS dark and mostly cool). Also I have been (and still) am a waiter and like you I tend to prefer staying back from this complicated, confusing and quite frankly overwhelming world most of the time. Often going to work is my 'social peak' for the week; but I want to share my passion more also. It is not yet time for me to start a channel (workflow incomplete), but I am always considering and moving towards. I am so so happy that there are a decent number of people out there WHO ARE interested in the FULL film practice. [I learned B&W in college 10yrs ago (are we twins?) and recently learned that they shut and removed the facilities there; kind of insane considering the resurgence amongst the "younger ones" in recent years]. My goal and desire is to connect and share my love of this art/medium with as many people as possible. You are already doing this in such a wonderful way!! NAMASTE AND GRACIAS from "the top of the continent". 🍁 📸🎞💖🙌🙏 ✌😎🤘 -JC
Omg that is crazy cool. We are twins for sure. I’m so happy to share my darkroom and film journey. I can’t express how grateful I am that I can do that. I felt so unprepared for so long. And I still have doubts here and there but reading comments like this give me so much joy. Thank you for the encouragement. It means a lot. I wish you all the best!
Great video😊 little by little you’re showing us what makes your darkroom tick and you look more confident in front of the camera, I know it’s not easy staring at a device and pretend it’s your audience but you are doing well😊👍🏼 Keep them coming we are ready for more!😊
That compensating timer sounds awesome. I'll keep it in mind if I ever come across one! I agree with trying to take in what you can when it's offered. I did that for years and now I have a community darkroom where I get to share a lot of it.
Your best accessory is the duck towel holder. Every darkroom should have one. I made contact prints with an old bit of glass from a picture frame. It was sharp round the edges so I just covered them with electrical tape.
Hola, Vivianna Magdalena. Gracias por compartir este episodio de tu trabajo. Sabes, equivocarse es de humanos. Es parte del proceso de aprendizaje. Si nos equivocamos, sabemos que las cosas pueden ser mejores. Jajajajajaja. No tienes que decirme cuánto sufres cuando hablas a cámara. Sin embargo, lo irás superando en la medida que sigas compartiendo tu trabajo con tus subscriptores. Creo que a ellos les gusta lo que ven: el resultado de tus imágenes. Eso, por ahora, es mas que suficiente. En cuanto al secador eléctrico de negativos que tienes guardado, creo que puede ser un problema con la resistencia. El sistema es simple: una resistencia, un potenciómetro y un ventilador. Alguien con buenos conocimientos de electricidad, puede repararlo. En mi estadía en USA, solía comprar en las tiendas GoodWill y otras thrift store. Viví en Altamonte Springs por 3 años y solía visitar una de ellas en la Iglesia Adventista. Compré allí muchas cosas en super buen estado: ropa, ollas, vasos, libros, CD's y DVD's. También solía ir a un Flea Market los domingos. Conseguía ofertas muy buenas. Por ejemplo, compré 2 C-stands de Matthew por $40 cuando su precio era de $130 cada uno en B&H y maletas que uso para los equipos que fui modificando poco a poco. Esto consiste en ser prácticos. Por ejemplo, mi box light lo construí yo mismo por no mas de $20. Hace el mismo trabajo que el que compras en una tienda de fotografía. Por lo demás, te motivo a seguir adelante. Es mucha la información que transmites en tus videos. Un fuerte abrazo. Saludos s Luis. DIOS los siga bendiciendo!
¡Muchísima gracias! Me da muchísimo gusto poder crear estos videos además del arte en sí. Y que genial que también has compartido el mismo gusto por comprar cosas a segunda mano. Es increíble lo que uno encuentra. Gracias por compartir tu interés en ello también. Que tengas un súper lindo fin de semana.
Great video! I think its so helpful to see what other people do in their darkroom, and hearing people talk about their darkroom process is super valuable. Thank you do much for sharing!!
Agreeing with the other commenters, your darkroom is amazing! I'm lucky to have some of the things in the video! I love my Jobo Mistral film drying cabinets... For drying prints, I built a similar print drying rack myself. One thing I'd mention that I really came to love is my Heiland Electronic enlarger timer / f-stop analyzer gadget that plugs into their LED light source (which replaced the dying Beseler 45S color head for my Beseler 45MXT enlarger). The enlarger timer replaces a normal timer, but it comes with a light meter that you can use to measure the light projected by your enlarger, and a computer thing with a small display and a few buttons. You set your paper + film type and it calculates the exposure / contrast grade you need for a basic print. It works pretty well and I can make do with a lot less test strips now (a godsend when I want to make a quick print after work). You can set your contrast and time using the gizmo, but you can adjust your printing / burning times in f stops rather than seconds, which is really convenient... It's really smart and sometimes I think it's cheating, but I can get to a first print a lot quicker and it leaves more time to work on perfecting the print or dodging+burning
Very inspiring as always. I don't have a darkroom but would love to have one. That is my futur project. I don't know where to start from, there are so many things to look for !
