Technique Category

Luke Healey has posted another Diafine EI test (see his previous test of Tri-X), this time of Fomapan 100. Check it out in his photostream at Flickr (larger version available there).
If you’re not familiar with Diafine developer, it’s got several magical properties: it’s a split-bath compensating developer, so it’s difficult to get blocked shadows or […]

Photographer Sean Rohde dug up and scanned a bunch of his darkroom experiments from the late 80s and early 90s. There are heaps of images along with explanations of how each was done. He writes:

Way back when, from 1988 to around 1992, I actually had a full darkroom. I currently just develop my own film […]

Check out this comparison of the depth of field at f/2 on 50, 35, and 9mm lenses on different sensor sizes. Note that this is about coverage and sensor size, not depth of field as related to focal length with the same coverage. If the coverage is the same, the depth of field is the […]

Alex Tymków has just published an article on combining pyro film development with digital negs [1, 2] for alt process printing at AlternativePhotography.com. Check it out.

Check out this contact printing with blueprint (diazo) paper and Windex window cleaner tutorial by Mark Gutierrez. Cool results, no darkroom or enlarger required, dead easy!
Read instructions at Instructables
Thanks to Seth for the heads-up!
Photo by Mark Gutierrez, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license

Polaroid’s removal of Time-Zero film from the market left a huge gap in the hearts of many photographers—a gap has just been filled by f295 member Erik Wiklund, who has come up with a a new manipulation technique for available peel-apart Polaroid films!
See the instructions and sample images at Polaroid.com or check out the original […]

MAKE Blog write:

DIY:Happy has a good round up of ways to do solvent transfers… - "Doing a solvent transfer is probably the quickest, easiest way to get an image onto a T-Shirt, Moleskine, or other surface. Like screen printing, the image is applied directly the surface. Unlike screen printing, this can be done quickly, cheaply, […]

Wicked-talented photographer Dan Loflin has written up a tutorial on strip photography with a Hasselblad V-series camera and A-series film magazine (he used an A12 back on a 503cw). Check it out:

It’s pretty simple to rig a hasselblad into an amatuer strip camera, as I’ve done, without altering the mechanics of the camera in any […]

Michael Reichmann of The Luminous Landscape has written a typically lucid article on soft proofing:

Soft proofing is simply a mechanism that allows you to view on your computer monitor what your print will look like when it is on paper. A specific paper. That paper and ink combination has been defined by the profile that […]

Photographer moominsean put together a great two-part tutorial/explanation of what light leaks are and how to avoid them or get them on purpose. (See the bright bits coming down from the top on his [utterly brilliant] photo above? That’s them!)
Part one deals with leaks caused by the camera—very common with toy and home-built cameras—while part […]