Calotype Paper Photographic Process
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why is there no sound?
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I love this video....beautiful!
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OMG...This has helped. Thank you for posting
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It's not that I'm that much younger, but I got my first camera only when I was already in college, and by that time digital was just coming out. And it's only about a year ago that I started being really into photography, and by that time it didn't make sense to start by learning film techniques. So I'm probably never going to get to work in a darkroom, but I still find it very interesting to read about it. And I completely understand why it must have felt like magic.
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That comment made me feel old and I'm not even that old (38). In film, the real magic happened in the dark room. A friend and I used to do a process using gum arabic. While I certainly respect the talents of the photoshop user, the ability of getting consistency, burn and dodging by hand and the sort is pure wizardry.
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Was the first solution you put on the paper gallo-nitrate? Im not sure what the other solution you dipped the paper in was.
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Thank you for posting this! I've been reading about the history of early photography and had a hard time understanding the various technologies described. I never worked in a darkroom of any kind (in fact I never even used film) so I just couldn't imagine it. This video was very helpful.
This video was produced for a gallery exhibition where sound would have been disruptive. Hence no soundtrack.
britishlibrary 1 year ago