Black And White Resources
Lesson 28 from: Introduction to Black & White Film PhotographyDaniel Gregory
Black And White Resources
Lesson 28 from: Introduction to Black & White Film PhotographyDaniel Gregory
Lessons
What Is Film
05:45 2Types Of Film
10:18 3The Film Scale
03:17 4Film Speed
06:46 5Film Cameras
03:50 6Loading Film Into The Camera
09:26 7Zone System Basics
15:46 8Metering For Black & White
15:04Camera Basics: ISO
12:11 10Safety In The Dark Room
07:22 11Film Development Process And Supplies
15:14 12The Film Developing Process Step-By-Step
32:31 13Storage And Organization Of Images
16:43 14Scanning 101
12:01 15Scanning Your Own Negatives Demo/Guidelines
19:29 16Enhancing Your Scans With Photoshop
25:46 17Dodge And Burn In Photoshop
07:05 18Using Photoshop Luminosity Masks To Work The Zone System
08:19 19Printing Options
05:10 20Printing Papers
05:28 21How Film Develops
06:41 22Film Density By Zone
05:58 23Film Pushing And Pulling
05:37 24Film Filters
13:11 25Reciprocity Failure
05:21 26Advanced Film Exposure
03:57 27Making The Analog Print
06:02 28Black And White Resources
04:14 29Alternative Processes
21:02Lesson Info
Black And White Resources
Black and white resources. So what are the cool parts of black and white film, and the resurgence of black and white film is on the big internet, the world of opinion. There's a bunch of grouchy people for film, just like any other piece. But that community is incredibly active, incredibly passionate, and to say that they have 180 years of knowledge, is accurate. There are people who have done the history back into the British journal of photography, which was published in the 1800's. I own copies of that, Googles digitalized them. I own copies, it's how I find out how to do some of these things. But there is people who have spent all of their energy and time, and life, in the analog dark room. And they are so excited that people are coming back. And so to be able to reach out and say, 'hey, I'm working on this, I'm struggling with this.' Sure, you're gonna run into the occasional you-know-what on the internet. But, incredibly passionate, and incredible amounts of information. I have y...
et to find someone who is either not run into the same problem I've had, we talked about film development, keeping those temperatures consistent, something goes wrong, you take a picture, you send it online, somebody will be like, 'oh yeah, this is what happened and this is this,' like there's always somebody who has the information. I mentioned where to buy things, Adorama, B&H have resources, Freestyle Photo is a company in southern California. They are a main distributor of Ilford and some of the products that actually go to all of the other places. If you call them on the phone and have a problem, they will spend time with you to answer those questions. APUG was an analog photographer user group, just had their website updated. The bonus material has the newest link in there. It's for Photrio, is how they pronounce themselves now, and it's a group of three different, it was a digital analog users group, for scanning and all that kind of stuff, development work. The large format info, large format photography that info site has a bunch of things, so no matter what you're looking for, there's somebody to help you with that. In addition to that, there's a couple of sites in the links in the bonus material. One of the sites is called ishootfilm.org The person who runs that site, Aaron, has built a list of all the labs and darkrooms across the country. So you search by city and state, and he shows you what's there. I would say we're fortunate in Seattle because we have an amazing resource. The school I teach at the Photographic Center Northwest, has analog darkrooms, has enlargers, has film development sinks, has a community of hundreds of people, who are there all the time working. But that's not unique to just Seattle. There are community darkrooms all across the country, so searching for community darkrooms, I need a local darkroom, you'd be surprised at what you can find. Most universities still have darkrooms, and because of the limited uses there, you can actually rent the darkroom. Evergreen college, down in Olympia here, has a darkroom you can rent, if you just live in the state of Washington, you go down and pay by the hour. So there's resources everywhere. To find that, you just have to do a little bit of digging. There's also people, who have darkrooms, where they open up their darkrooms. A couple of times here, I have a studio up on Whidbey Island a couple of times a year, I open up my darkroom, and we print and have fun, and socialize, share prints and things like that. Cause I want the community of people being involved. So the film community is very, very interested in that sharing element. And there's a lot of information out there. And even if you were never comfortable asking a question because of whoever is on the internet, you could go and search, and search, and search, and you'd be amazed at what you'd find. Now, it's a lot of contradictory information, cause everybody does things a little different. But you could at least feel like, you're not alone. (laughter) So no shortage there. Anybody is always willing to help. So I think you'd be surprised at how much information is out there. That being said, you do kind of have to do a little bit of digging, it's a little different. It's not like, going to Youtube, and there's not 5000 channels of how to do something on photoshop, or there's 15 million videos. But when you do get into those groups and some of those organizations I've got in the bonus material, you'll find, I think, some easy pieces for that.
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Ratings and Reviews
Texas Beauty Photography
Great class!! It's jam packed with usable information for anyone wanting to shoot, process, and print black and white images. There is so much detail presented in this class, I can practically guarantee you'll come back to it again and again. I successfully used this class to capture b/w photographs, process the negatives, capture them digitally, and finally, produce beautiful prints that I'm proud to show my friends and clients. This may well be one of the best classes on all of CreativeLive. Highly recommended!
LEO DE BOCK
I am really fond of Daniel Gregory as a teacher. He does a great job. To me, his enthousiasm, his passion for and his dedication to film photography are infectuous. It's great that CreativeLive makes place for film photography and for such a pro teaching it. It can never do so enough for me. Thanks. I am a fan.
user-661816
This is an excellent course and Daniel is a great teacher! I'm coming back to shooting film and darkroom work after 20 years away. I have some wonderful film cameras sitting in my cabinet and I decided I wanted to use them--so I have decided to shoot BW with film, and shoot color with my digital cameras. I will develop the BW film myself and scan and print digitally. This class is perfect for me!
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