The Digital Zone System Photoshop Plugin is a small light weight extension panel giving you access to the Zone System tools which have been designed to help with your black and white photography editing. The plugin interface is clean and does not include any “bells or whistles” which can lead to distraction. Each set of tools work […]
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Diafine is an extremely durable, two-bath ultra-fine grain film developer with high speed yield. Diafine can be used in a wide range of temperatures with a uniform development time for films with differing sensitivities. I have used Diafine on and off for some time and for certain situations, I find it to be a very […]
In a previous article, I demonstrated how to install Lightroom Profiles. Before Adobe introduced Profiles, we used to rely on Presets to speed up our editing workflow. One of the main issues with presets is that they made adjustments tot he various sliders and prevented us from applying further adjustments to those sliders without overwriting […]
In Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe have made the profiles more discoverable by changing how they are accessed. In Lightroom Classic CC and Adobe Camera Raw, the profiles have been moved from the Camera Calibration panel to the Basic panel at the top of the edit panel. Their capabilities have also been exdended with six brand […]
Black & White Printing Photoshop Curves When printing black and white photographs with an Epson Printer, one of the best choices you can make is to use the Advanced Black and White mode (ABW) mode. The Epson Advanced Black and White driver in my opinion gives deeper blacks, is more linear, produces less bronzing and […]
To calculate the exposure time for pinhole camera, we first of all need to know the f number of the pinhole camera. Unlike normal cameras, this value does not change because the hole remains the same size which therefore simplifies the final calculation. Pinhole f Number. This is the distance from the film divided by the diameter of the pinhole. Let’s assume that our pinhole camera has a focal […]
What Scan Resolution Should I Scan My Negatives At ? Scanning resolution is probably one of the first dilemmas people are faced with when they first start out scanning negatives. Their first reaction is to scan them at the highest values available in the scanning software thinking they are going to achieve the best scan. In […]
The SilverFast Black and White Scanning Workflow After spending many hours learning how to get the most from the analog to digital conversion form the equipment I have, I thought it would be a good idea to share this information via a mini video series. I use a simple but effective black and white scanning workflow which produce […]
Zone System Gradient Photoshop Plugin Working with black and white images requires us to move or remap tones within an image to suit our artistic vision. Unlike colour images, when we are editing grey scale images, we need to be aware of the tonal transitions which occur throughout the entire tonal range of the photograph. […]
