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If you’ve gone all the way to shooting medium format and learning how to develop film, I can’t help but encourage you to get into printing black and white as we
by heliographe 1y ago
If you’ve gone all the way to shooting medium format and learning how to develop film, I can’t help but encourage you to get into printing black and white as well.
(color is IMO less interesting - more finicky, less creative latitude)
It’s a minimal investment of time & money (even simpler if you have a community darkroom near you - there are more than you might think!), and it’s both more creatively rewarding as a process than what you get working digitally, and for IMO a better result (you need a really high quality printer to match what standard b&w printing gives you).
Prints also make for great gifts - people just aren’t used to seeing 8x10 printed portraits anymore, and I’ve had friends/family members moved to tears when presented with a framed print of their family.
Oh and there’s also always large format ;)
- JKCalhoun 1y agoOh, for sure I shoot B&W. I think I do prefer it to color. I just don't make prints any more. I think I am too spoiled by the tweaks you can do with levels/curves in the digital domain. And then I have also dabbled this year in dye-sub prints on metal — and that also begins with a digitized image. (I have found friends and relatives really like the dye-sub prints.) Large format is still in my future. I do have a few pieces of hardware is all (a Copal shutter, etc.).