Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Remembering Darkroom Prints


The other day, I was rearranging stuff in the studio to make room for some old prints. Ah, the endless task of finding places to store old work more efficiently... Anyway, among the various piles o' crap was one of the first prints I ever made in the darkroom. I'm sure the image was captured on Tri-X and developed in Rodinal with couple tablespoons of Sodium Sulfite added, as was my habit back then. The thing is, the print was actually a bit green. Not pure black and white. Black ain't really black and white ain't really white, as any decent painter knows. So I tried to replicate that look in one of my monochrome digital files by adding some color back in. You gotta smile.