Darkroom: 120x150cm art print
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Published 2015-09-03
The artist's homepage:
www.alveng.com
All Comments (21)
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My grandfather made a living doing mural prints from 8x10s, and many other formats. There's photos of me as a baby swimming in his troughs. I like to think that's where I found my love of the darkroom. It makes me feel like I'm connected to him. Thanks for sharing this video and keeping the art alive
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The Holterman Collection in Australia includes wet plate negatives that have survived from the gold rush days that are 90 x 160cms...that is negatives that are effectively grainless because the emulsion was in liquid form, and so allow very high levels of enlargement...from the late 19th century...film technology is just amazing...
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How about showing the finished print! Sheesh!
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I work hard for 8x10 print and this man is making giant prints.
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Magnific,awesome fine art photography!
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I'm an aspiring photographer in the making. I'm only in my first year in photography but i'm very fascinated by the development of it. This was amazing, thankyou for this .
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I noticed some comments about the enlarger and how it can be done. Forgive me if it’s been answered. But when I was an apprentice in the 80s we used a durst 5x4 plate enlarger that would rotate 90% and ran on a rail system fitted in the floor. We then enlarged on to the wall. Any size neg upto 5x4 plate. Start test print at F8. And may take upto 20 mins to allow us to doge and burn.
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beautiful print my goodness that is pretty awesome to see
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you sick man!! very nice work!
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This has to be the most beautiful video ever.
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razor sharp print! well done!
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Very awesome art. I have some vintage 4x5" negatives and am trying to figure how large I can blow them up. Thank you!
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awesome work.....super jealous.
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Excellent video.
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Reminds me of when I used to make large colour prints in the late 1960s. I used to use troughs and roll the paper through the chemicals
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Now, off to scan it with V550!
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where did you get the developing trays? were they custom made? they must've been expensive. Excellent work?
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How do you know the exposure time with such a large print? Do you make a smaller print first and then calculate how much longer based on the extra distance? Do you have to consider reciprocity failure of the paper emulsion when doing this?
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Wow that's crazy big for a silver print. It looks like you went straight from developer to light on. Did you not use stop bath before putting on the lights??
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Most decent enlargers can be rotated to project horizontally to create mural sized prints. If your really handy research Ansel Adams enlarger and make one yourself.
