"Printing colour photos from home is easy; don't believe what you've read on the Internet" - proceeds to work with state of the art equipment in a beautifully designed dark room with multiple enlargers that are easily worth around tens of thousands of dollars in total : )

Best color printing walk-through I have seen so far. Thank you so much for sharing.

@wiplab4319

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@ShibariStudy

3 жыл бұрын

agreed!

@jasonzayas5487

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@taranehfarhangmehr2310

16 күн бұрын

I really appreciate how you went through it and have all the suggestions from beginner to pro tools.

Thanks for refreshing my skills . More than 20 years for me in the darkroom. With your help, I was able to print again without fear.

Its so much easier to use digital format and view pictures on screen or have them printed at professional installations.Yet, there’s something extremely attractively- satisfying to go through this process. It almost feels like you’re putting a soul into these pictures. Digitals pictures feel robotic. Yes, they’re perfect, flawless and “adjustable”. Film pictures feel alive. And all those little flaws with color, tint, exposure, etc. actually make it better. It’s like adding a character to make it unique. The more time, effort and emotions you put into process (choosing what to capture, worrying about correct light settings, developing film and printing on paper), the more alive it feels. Theres something mysteriously attractive with analog way of freezing time and space.

@b6983832

2 жыл бұрын

In this world, nothing natural is perfect. That´s why film looks better to the human eye than digital pictures. Same goes with every other kind of handicraft. Best food is not cooked by robots measuring the exact amount of seasoning, but by a chef doing it all by heart.

@Superbustr

Жыл бұрын

There are several aspects that cause digital photos to look robotic and boring: 1. More often then not digital photos are not processed. 2. Most digital photos are shot on phones resulting in very compressed images with poor color compared to film photos. 3. Digital photos from phones up to high end mirrorless focus too much on resolution, neutrality, and lack of grain resulting in a very pedestrian monotone look. 4. Digital lacks the human element. Imperfections, slight color casts, some grain, and lower resolution are a lot more interesting than a flat digital image. 5. Lastly the biggest problem is that since digital photography has become cheap and affordable to everyone; the result is in it becoming a throwaway medium where photos have little to no value anymore. Digital photos are worth pennies after you including the camera cost, media cost, and the cost of your time. Analog photos have a minimum value which equates the basic cost to shoot and develop the film. So at least $1 for each medium format shot.

Awesome video! Really takes the mystery out of dark room printing for me, thank you!

This is such a great video. Thank you for putting this together!

Really good content mate. Was fascinated how people did this in the 90's. Now I know, how it was before the digital cameras.

Really great video! I recently procured a color darkroom setup and had no idea how to move forward, so this has really helped.

Really a great walkthrough. Best I found so far after days of looking around the web. One small question. You are using the automated system (if I could afford one I would too) but could you maybe also do a walkthrough to do the exact same as you did but without the automated system? This because I think most people, like me that just started, first try it out with putting it all in a bath. And sadly thats quite allot harder I guess.

@lonniepaulson7031

5 ай бұрын

Yes he was using a machine for processing, but as he showed you, you can just use a plastic tube for processing. When I did color printing I started doing it in my home darkroom. I used trays in a water bath. I had a black-and-white enlarger so I put color compensating gelatin filters under the lens, you could add about three at a time. All in magenta and yellow density increments. You can also use acetate filters in a filter drawer if you do not have a color enlarger. In photography school we had the most sophisticated equipment, more so than what he shared. We used in the 1070s a color analyzer to meter with a probe on the easel the color balance and exposure. The analyzer had to be programed before use. We also had a large Kreonite printer that could take 20 inch paper, and the print came out dry. But that set up was a lot more expensive than what this You Tuber was using. I printed a lot of 16x20 inch prints and I knew of one student who printed a 20x24 inch print. Color printing can be as simple as using trays in a water bath, he used an aquarium heater witch I thought was impressive. It will take you a lot of time these days to make a successful darkroom color print; besides exposure you have to learn how to judge the color balance. You can buy these color printing filters in increments of .05, .10 up to about .50 in density of each color which would be magenta and yellow. The number system is based on logarithms like neutral density filters. I'm sure they no longer make color analyzers, so you will have to be your own analyzer--plus during the 1970s they carried a price tag on the average of $2,000 or more. You won't be successful right away but stick with it and you will have success with very little equipment. You can pretty much use the same equipment that you use in your black-and-white darkroom including a black-and-white enlarger, but then you must buy the acetate filters in the various magenta and yellow densities. You also need color print paper which I think only Fuji still makes. You need a color chemical kit for print color negatives. The temperature of the chemicals must be a lot warmer than with black-and-white. Try it. I like color. I hope you have success!

Great video Brock! I’ve been looking for a video explaining the basics colour printing and this one has nailed it good stuff!

@wiplab4319

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Will!

Great video! Very thorough and informative. And also nice to be able to take you from 999 to 1K! Congrats :)

So good! Building my home darkroom right now. Just bought a colour enlarger so I'll be coming back to this often when I get into printing. Cradle Mountain is such an incredible place, what a hike it was. Did it back in 2014 when I was in that corner of the world

@wiplab4319

3 жыл бұрын

Oh mate you beauty! Let me know if you have any questions while building it and I can try help!

@ryanparker2483

3 жыл бұрын

@@wiplab4319 Definitely will. Got an ATL 3 on the way, I'm excited!

Yes! love it. I'll be in the next workshop thanks :)

Very clear explanation. Great help! Thanks a lot.

Thank you! A super video and it gives me a sense of it being possible to do here at home! That's exciting! )))

Love what you make here. Waiting your next video

That’s a nice darkroom set-up for sure 👍

Great video I ordered my intrepid can’t wait to get started.

thank you SO MUCH for this video. hoping to try this soon.

a great tutorial, It's often not that easy but, having worked with colour for many years, while it is a bit more painstaking that B and W it Is more gratifying and a lot more fun. A Wratten AO 10 is a good short on time safe light for colour printing.Just turn it off after loading the Masking board.

Hey! This video pretty much completes several daya of research on web, wish I found ut earlier. Would you mind making a short videl or Just posting some schematics on you homemade drum lock? I am about to get into making one for large format prints, not really sure how much lighttrap is enough.

love it, more of these! 🙂

Enjoyed this, cheers.

Great stuff mate. Really enjoyed this

@wiplab4319

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks James

Really enjoyed your video. Just getting to printing. Got an enlarger that can do color. Would really like to see how to make a developing tank. I am sure I am not alone.

Omg this is amazing video

Great print! Great video 👌

@wiplab4319

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Steve 👍

Awesome vid Brock !

@wiplab4319

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Matt ☺️

thanks for the video and all tips

Nice video!! congrats

Nice one, Brock. Natural KZreadr :) Looking forward to the next one.

@wiplab4319

3 жыл бұрын

Too kind Ben ☺️

Very helpful overview of the process. I do have a question about color processing, do you have the ability to dodge and burn like you can do with Black and White?

thanks! great info

enjoyed this man!

@wiplab4319

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure mate!

You’re the best

Great video, thanks for sharing! I just bought a Durst rcp20 and was going to try some colour darkroom printing. Any idea where I can find a user manual? Thanks

Legend, awesome video, always done black and white but so keen to have a go at colour now. 42nd comment, meaning of liff

Nice video 👌 thanks

wow, how did those 20 minutes pass? nice video walkthrough mate, i was so sucked in, will set up a darkroom myself too and needed this

I may give it a try

Would love to see the jobo in action!

I got an headache looking at all the process. I think I will stick with B&W printing. Very very good video loved especially the diy drum/dish ideas.

Great introduction. I'm finding it difficult to find the CMY filters you show at 7:07 for B&W enlargers. What should I be Googling for? Can you send a link?

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So if you use just a tank and a crate of warm water with the aqaurium heater. Would you use only one tank and keep swapping the chemicals, or just use 2 tanks one for developer and one for bleach fix? If you keep swapping them you are gonna mess up the developper right?

Hey mate I’m interested in making a homemade drum like you mentioned. The info on how to make it would greatly be appreciated!

Thank you so much for sharing the real process! Did prints by a filmlab and the results were not good. You see the digital noise (of the enlargement) over the original grain of the picture wich pains. Do you know if there are any labs out there making prints of a 35mm negative image, or are there only dudes & dudettes like you (so said, pros) doing that on their own?

Only one sad thing is that you can't use graded papers anymore. As well as reversal ones like Cibachrome and Ektachrome. But i have heard there still are chemical ways to increase/ decrease contrast without changing color balance.

interested in making a homemade drum like you mentioned. The info on how to make it would greatly be appreciated!

Hey Brock, I recently came across a Durst RCP20, do you have tips on how to modify it to work with RA4 process ? Thanks !

@aliciawaite7479

2 жыл бұрын

Did you ever find this out? I've got the same and need to modify

@3:20. can you make a video showing how you made a diy drum? Also a video on the durst rcp 20

Can you recommend a color processor?

thats a cool esky

Any tips for safety fumes wise? everyone I spoke to when going to ra-4 keep telling all these scare stories about the danger

@wip lab what kind of process are you using?

I need to add a correction my previous comment I quoted Wratten AO10 this filter is green /yellow. The correct filter usable is Wratten 13 which is suitable for panchromatic paper as well, but I don't think it's suitable for pan films. Kodak don't say so.

正确的思路！

wooow

Can you please tell us what is the average time for the process of one print?

Come back! I miss you...

I miss WIP :(

How can I get a copy of your homemade drum plans?

Beginners guide to RA4 prints.... then proceeds to show off fancy almost impossible to find processor 😉. It would be nice to know what chemicals you use also? Especially what is available in Australia

@Notimportant1995

3 жыл бұрын

I mean they can be found, just difficult. I found one in the UK for £150 that's being shipped to me here in Sydney.

@Ryan-lu9km

3 жыл бұрын

@@Notimportant1995 You're a lucky one. Most processors are expensive, and if can get used to the dark, trays are a possible option. Tetanal makes an RA-4 kit available in Europe, not sure about Australia though. Kodak RA-4 chemicals are available worldwide, just in large amounts (10 liters).

The colors may have looked accurate at 20:45 but I have to say that that print would have looked better if you had left it with the unbalanced more saturated colors from the 4second test strip. A neutral image is not always a good looking photo, more so than not a very saturated popping photo is more pleasing. Just my 2 cents.

@nickfanzo

Жыл бұрын

Personal preference

Okay i am really a Noob i guess 😂 I really thought you could also use red light to develop color photos!😝🤷🏻‍♂️

Why is not use of colour analiger ?

Great video! Fill in your about page.

Any new videos coming soon?

does anybody know which chemicals i need to get in order to do my own darkroom print?

@teobecher7092

3 жыл бұрын

Check Tetenal RA4 kit chemicals, that's what you need

при диафрагмировании до 1/16 падает R объектива.

Excuse me sir I have a doubt can I print currency through your process if there's no paper type boundation in this method , yes or no rest we'll discuss in any near by coffee shop at your place 🤔😂

Are you teaching me or playing me music?

I thought he said it’s not hard to do🥴😩

Dont really get the need to play the music it just muddies it.

Why the hell would you show off the more cost accessible options to color photography and then for the "walkthrough" show off using the very expensive print processor which none of us have, and would likely already be privy to everything demonstrated in this video. We came here for the cheap options. Nonsense "how to" video