You and John Finch(Pictorial Planet) are superb content creators and educators in the art of photography, we are saturated with darkroom videos on KZitem, but the majority run through the basics without any real insight in the process. Keep em coming, great channel!
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
Wow, thank you!
@MultiGlenn1987
Ай бұрын
Really detailed and clear sharing for the flashing. Thank you.
@stevenwhite921
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing Matthew
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
@alvinbirdi6502
Жыл бұрын
Great stuff! Good advice to fix the height of the flash light. RH Designs make a useful lightweight paper flasher that can be easily fixed somewhere with blue tack.
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
I have seen that one... it looks nice! Thanks!
@SNxr400r
Жыл бұрын
It's good to see somebody have such Passion about Darkroom skills....Some books may cover these steps...but not in detail Like you...Look forward in seeing this series...
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
I appreciate that! There is a lot of info out there on this stuff, But most is very hard to wrap your head around... especially say reading it at night and the trying to remember the next day or a week later etc...Wacthing someone do it sticks a bit more for me. Plus everyone does (and should) have a slightly different approach to how they print.
@randallstewart1224
Жыл бұрын
Excellent graphic demonstration of how flashing works.
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, glad it made sense!
@philipu150
Жыл бұрын
Matthew, working through the problem-solving process on a single negative in this detail is something that would normally, I assume, be reserved for an extended. workshop (I never had the good fortune to attend one). The pedagogy can be enormously valuable for those new to the process. It's the kind of thing that is virtually never attempted in photography, outside a class or workshop, with respect to composition, for instance. Granted, composition is another domain altogether -- dependent in various ways on technique but not a technical process like that which you are elucidating here, but the matter of systematically analyzing what tools are available and how they may be appropriate for use in combination on a single image offers immeasurably more than the more usual, "On this image I did this, on this one, I did this" -- with virtually no connection made. Hats off.
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Phillip, there are just so many ways to approach some of this… some more time consuming and fitting for someone’s workflow and some might not be so fitting and might want to use different techniques all together… you can get so much more involved in a print if you feel the need 👍
@JohanSvenssongbgpixtures
Жыл бұрын
Great info 👍😌😌
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@anthonycollingridge970
Жыл бұрын
Very informative and allows more flexibility in the darkroom. I was in the school of thought that VC papers required no pre flashing, but after watching this I'm going to give it a try.
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
I think for me it is a case by case basis. Most negs are not this out of whack and burning with a low contrast filter would do the job fine. But many times flashing can be combined to deal with certain issues... I find it very useful!
@ianland4768
Жыл бұрын
Great explanation as always, fantastic practical demonstration
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!
@bondaan1
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!
@josephasghar
Жыл бұрын
Nicely presented. The graph really helped my understanding.
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
@mikekukavica
Жыл бұрын
Having grown up in the north, I tend to think a good way to describing what the flash is doing in a simple way is to say If getting detail in the highlights is like pushing a car out of the snow, the flash is like when you're pushing the car & the wheels are spinning, just before the car starts moving. Your way of describing that is a lot more accurate though! Great video!
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
Thank you... Try not to think about snow until November :) Good analogy though!
@andyvan5692
Жыл бұрын
great addendum to that video, to show how you might fix a problem neg. you explain it very well, can't wait for the next installment.
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. Me too... this is sorta forcing me to get in the darkroom :)
@tango3137
Жыл бұрын
Very informative. Well expained. Very addictive contents. Thanks. :)
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
Great to hear! It can be hard to know how well you are explaining something like this so I appreciate the feedback!
@friedricengravy6646
Жыл бұрын
The Arch in St. Louis?? A fellow Missourian here. ✌🏻🥳
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
My Mom lives in Missouri and I come through St. Louis. 👍
@erchata
Жыл бұрын
creo que lo probare, ahora que he pedido varios productos en crudo voy hacer el revelador d-23 y Crawley's FX15, muy buen video y esa es la fotografia que mas me gustaba, hasta el proximo video un saludo.
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! I have always wanted to give d23 a try. Let me know how it goes!
@jeta1383
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video! Instead of pre-flashing the entire sheet of paper can you not instead pre-flash say a portion of the paper? For example, a landscape scene - pre-flashing only the top (local) area of the paper say with your hands (as if you were dodging/burning) - instead flashing the paper and just targeting the highlights only?
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
Yes absolutely! Check out my latest video on just that! kzitem.info/news/bejne/x6lqlniIs6KjiG0si=8Af_-y4gRySVj2vc
@jeta1383
Жыл бұрын
👌🏼
@danem2215
Жыл бұрын
I'm curious if it's worth the pain of using the enlarger, since you can flash with a grade zero and (maybe) avoid muddying the shadows.
@Distphoto
Жыл бұрын
Yes you definitely can. I did not get into it and intend to do a comparison of flashing for different colors (blue/green light) that effectively target the two contrast layers. I still need to test more myself on this so did not include it yet but I do typically flash with a green gel to target the lower contrast which would be the same as flashing under the enlarger with a 00 filter or there abouts. So yes I do think that is a good direction!
@johngregory8526
7 ай бұрын
I am curious, what do you use to record your video in the darkroom?
@Distphoto
7 ай бұрын
Usually a cannon R5 and prime lens and 24 mm 1.4 👍
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