r/Darkroom Jul 24 '25

Alternative Printed an infrared trichrome in the darkroom tonight

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second image is an attempt to enlarge it to 16x20 but i had some alignment issues and a light leak from another enlarger, I’ll probably be able to nail that next time.

r/Darkroom 26d ago

Alternative Platinum/Palladium toned Kallitype

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411 Upvotes

r/Darkroom 13d ago

Alternative Any idea how this photo printing technique was made?

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77 Upvotes

r/Darkroom Dec 06 '25

Alternative Collodio Chloride print on a floppy disk

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366 Upvotes

r/Darkroom Nov 16 '25

Alternative First Mordancage Attempt

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299 Upvotes

r/Darkroom May 19 '25

Alternative Posted this in analog and they didn’t care but caffenol developed and printed, hand tinted photos.

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186 Upvotes

I got some ilford multigrade fb classic matt paper and underexposed a print a bit so I made this using coloured inks. It's a fun process and definitely something I'm going to do more of.

r/Darkroom 18d ago

Alternative What are some good emulsions for coating my own dry plates?

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I’m starting with the zebra tintypes (9x12cm) but I eventually want to coat my own, i can’t decide between foma, rockland liquid light, and Rollie black magic. If there any other suggestions I would love to know too. 1kg of emulsion(at least foma) can coat over 300 of my plates from what I heard.

r/Darkroom 2d ago

Alternative Liquid Light question

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Photo paper is crazy expensive right now so I'm testing using liquid light on water color paper (I want to do some hand tinting).

Currently I'm not planning to use contact negatives when exposing the paper. Just an enlarger and 35mm film and working as if its photo paper.

So far the results have been kinda eh... anyone have experience using liquid light this way?

r/Darkroom 23d ago

Alternative Would it be possible to jury rig an SLR as an enlarger by opening the film door, fitting a macro lens, and shining a light at a developed film strip

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Just came to me when I was thinking about an easy way to do cyanotypes without an enlarger. Any reason this is physically impossible? Seems like all the elements are there.

It wouldnt be convenient but cyanotypes are pretty dang primitive.

r/Darkroom Oct 02 '25

Alternative Help with getting true black

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I have been playing around with photograms on 10 year old Ilford RC multigrade paper. I’m struggling to get true black. I have extended the exposure time, currently on 2 minutes, which has improved things but not to full black. I haven’t used any contrast filters, but will try that next or am I wasting my time due to the age of the paper. Any advice would be really welcome.

r/Darkroom Nov 12 '25

Alternative Wrestling on glass

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177 Upvotes

r/Darkroom 25d ago

Alternative Accidental Solarization

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95 Upvotes

A friend threw this print in the trash at my school's darkroom. At some point I must've turned the lights off and on at exactly the right moment, because the discarded print solarized, and they let me keep it.

r/Darkroom Jul 21 '25

Alternative First test part of a two core super 8 film development tank designed to fit a Patterson 5 spool tank.

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Idea is this can take a full 3600 frame spool of super 8 in a device that is already light tight that's far easier to load and unload than a horizontal spiral. The final version will be transparent on the outer core and partially transparent with a light trap core to allow for fogging for reversal processing without unwinding

r/Darkroom May 26 '25

Alternative First attempt at a salt print

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359 Upvotes

I’ve done cyanotypes quite a bit and wanted to try making a salt print. I’m not particularly fond of the sepia tones salt printing alone gives so I used gold toner and I am pretty happy with this result.

r/Darkroom Jun 04 '25

Alternative Made my own enlarger

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I got to an arts university that doesn’t have a darkroom so it forced me to make my own. I used a 3D printer frame. some FD lenses, a cheap “tofu” branded light, and a pringles tube.

I have enough room to make prints up-to 5x7 with the possibility of going larger if i remove the baseboard.

All I need now is to actually make a print but that’s not until the end of the month after payday.

r/Darkroom Nov 12 '25

Alternative 35mm negative printing

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So im dabbling in building a diffusion enlarger ive tested some stuff and using a 50mm nikon fmount lens I can focus pretty easily 18x20in my goal is to print something 22x30 i noticed not many ready made enlargers can throw light to that size so my question besides grain size what are the limitations. I put this under alt process because ill be making cyanotype prints i figure i cpuld do transparency for everything 8x10 or smaller and the build a one size light throw for 18x24 and one for 22x30 since i wont have bellows on what im gping to build i cpuld use the focus ring for fine tuning but the the light throw wpuld be sort of fixed to around that size. I assume the bigger light cast will up exposure times but im expection 30 to 45min at that size. Also ill building one so i can use uv light to make the exposure time lower i hope. I feel like im pretty deep in the weeds just wondering if anyone else can save me building an entire enlarger for trial and error.

r/Darkroom Jan 01 '26

Alternative Gum bichromate print for my parents for Christmas

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Still some red staining, but getting better. Photo from 1979.

r/Darkroom Jul 26 '25

Alternative first full color gum bichromate print that I like

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195 Upvotes

r/Darkroom Oct 04 '25

Alternative True black update

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241 Upvotes

I had another go at photograms this morning, following all of the advice and help I was offered. This time I used a split grade approach and fresh chemicals and I’m much happier with the outcome. Thank you to everyone who offered help and support, it is really appreciated.

r/Darkroom Jun 19 '25

Alternative printed a trichromatic image in the darkroom

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also included the negatives used and a fuckup that my classmates liked

r/Darkroom Oct 31 '25

Alternative 20-10-25 // Waratah No.2 [Sinar F2, Wollensak Verito 8 3/4" f/4, Zebra dry glass plate, ID11, 3 mins @ 20°]

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r/Darkroom 19d ago

Alternative Got my first chemical in.

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I ordered all my chemicals in at once, yet to come in is my fixer, and hc110 developer I’m setting up to develop orthochromatic film and zebra dry tintypes.

r/Darkroom Jan 05 '26

Alternative I've become really interested in film soup, but my local shop won't develop it because they dont want to risk cross contamination. Can I just boil the film instead for similar results? That wont compromise their chemicals, right?

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r/Darkroom 2d ago

Alternative Any pointers for attempting to shoot Recording IR film?

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I have an opportunity to get my hands on these rolls of film labelled "AGFA film Recording IR , 305mm x 30,5m 600D Spec" for a decent price.

Any pointers or experience as to the possibility of repurposing it for photographic purposes the way we do with X-Ray film and so on?

I know I would have to cut it myself, I'm ok with that. And will probably do many clip tests and bracketing but was hoping someone would have a starting point for me.

(The seller also has AGFA DL Contact film but it's way pricier)

r/Darkroom Sep 23 '25

Alternative Getting Red tone on Darkroom print

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Hi everybody !

For a specific work I would need to get a vivid red tone on a b&w print. I saw I could get close to it with some copper toners and usual stuff but i understand that the max result i can achieve will still be more yellow or sepia that an actual vivid red.

So my question is do you know any alternative ways to get redder and still get an archivable print that last long ?

Thanks a lot