Tag Archives: darkroom

Ivan Dalla Tana

By Paul Kerins | Published: January 24, 2012

Ivan Dalla Tana, master printer & inventor of the “Gold Process” a alternative photographic printing process. The world is full of creative people, making beautiful objects and things for themselves and other people’s pleasure, but the reality is almost all of it, is a rehash of something someone else had already done before. It is [...]

Vignetting

By Paul Kerins | Published: January 19, 2012

Vignetting Photographs for Artistic Effect. Vignetting to put it simply is the darkening of the outside edges of a photograph. In photography there are many types of vignetting, mechanical vignetting, optical vignetting, natural vignetting, pixel vignetting and finally vignetting for artistic effect. All the different types of vignetting ( excluding vignetting for artistic effect ) [...]

Burning and Dodging, Non-Destructive Technique using a Fill Layer

By Paul Kerins | Published: November 26, 2011

How to burn and dodge in Photoshop. Back in the days before computers, blogs, digital images, and electricity ( well…, okay maybe not that far back ), photographers used a variety of special techniques in the darkroom to help their negatives reach the maximum in potential on photographic paper. Probably the most popular and most [...]

Film is Dead, Long Live Film

By Paul Kerins | Published: September 4, 2011

Film is magic. Anyone can take a photograph, but only a photographer can make a photograph. That phrase may be a cliché, but it does not make it any less true. In the age of digital photography it has become laughably easy for a person to become a “Photographer”. It was quite strange for me [...]