Hello mastodon.social! My name is David Marsh, and I am a digital #photographer and #printmaker specializing in using digital negatives to print my #blackandwhite#photography using traditional and alternative darkroom processes. I'm based in Escondido, California. I also help administer the One More Stop photography Discord server: https://discord.gg/onemorestop
using traditional and alternative darkroom processes While cool, why did you choose to stick to this process. To stand out of the crowd? Or for the love of it? 🙂
/Took a photography course on a whim (didn’t complete) more than a decade ago and was introduced to the process. So, I understand the love for the ‘magic’.
@Deus@nimbledave
Interesting question. I have a university background in photography right before digital came out. Our focus was the Ansel Adams process of working with the film, the film developing, & of course darkroom processing.
Fast-forward thru various iterations of the digital camera & I finally landed on a Nikon Df LE because of its design language (it looks like a film camera) &, honestly, I wanted a Nikon (prior film cameras were Minolta & Canon).
Having a good taste of digital image manipulation & traditional (is it nowadays?) darkroom processes, I prefer the physical hands-on, watch-it-happen of the traditional darkroom.
Why? One doesn't have to be computer literate (BTW, I'm in IT) & it takes a greater skill because it takes personal, physically manual time. The final product won't be flawlessly perfect like digital artists often ascribe to (guilty!); it's those perfect imperfections, it's the visually tactile & physical paper used instead of a digital imitation.
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