by Tim Parkin | May 30, 2016 | Exposing
The first step when working with a new process, printer or printing substrate is to establish a base exposure or base printing time. This is the amount of exposure needed to make your sensitised paper completely black in areas on your digital negative with no ink on...
by Tim Parkin | May 29, 2016 | Exposing
There are two options for your negatives – actual film or digital negatives. There is a lot to be said for actual negatives but as I haven’t taken too many black and white photographs in 10×8 I thought it best to start with digital negatives (it gives...
by Tim Parkin | Mar 12, 2016 | Exposing
Printing processes can be arbitrarily split between those that use ‘visible’ light and those that use UV light. Because I was originally interested in some of the platinum/palladium processes (including Van Dyke, Kallitype and Ziatype) I was starting at...
by Tim Parkin | Mar 12, 2016 | Thoughts
Why indeed? Well the big reason is the one I mentioned in the introduction. It’s the creation of an ‘artefact’. The appreciate of an object that you have crafted with your hands and vision. Yes this can be experienced in the digital realm using...
by Tim Parkin | Mar 11, 2016 | News
I’ve been a large format photographer for a few years and although I’ve been dedicated to analog from the capture side, I’ve stayed firmly 100% digital from that point onwards – So much so that I ended up starting a drum scanning service (and a...
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