Written in easy-to-understand language, The Darkroom Cookbook is the one source every photographer needs for the recipes for both common and rare photographic formulas. This book shares tried-and-true techniques for the silver-based process and provides the keys to unlocking creativity through the mastery of the 'ingredients' of photography -- namely the chemicals used to develop, fix, stop and tone.
The Darkroom Cookbook, 2nd Edition offers 170 photographic formulas, 20 of which are new to this edition, that cover film developing, paper developing, toners, stop baths, fixers, negative reductions, print reductions, negative intensifiers, paper intensifiers, and more. New information has been added on pyro developer, amidol developer, monobaths, pushing film, and low contrast development.
Sections on safety and darkroom planning, as well as a listing of chemical suppliers, complete this book. The comb binding allows for easy darkroom use.
Contents:
- List of Formulas
- Equipment
- Chemicals
- Pharmacopeia
- Development
- Film Development
- Paper Development
- Stop Baths and Fixers
- Toning Prints
- Negative Reduction
- Print Reduction
- Intensification of Negatives
- Intensification of Prints
- Push Processing Film
- Development by Inspection
- Appendices -- Safety in Handling Photographic Chemicals
- Chemical and Equipment Suppliers
- Planning a Darkroom pH
- Formulas
- Bibliography
- Conversion Tables
Readership: Professional and amateur photographers. Recipes for 170 photographic formulas and their specific uses, including 20 new ones. In-depth analysis of which formulas work best under what conditions, as well as specialized conditions, such as working in extremely cold or tropical climates. Handy, easy-to-access information on safety, suppliers, darkroom planning, and conversion tables
About the Author: Steve Anchell is a contributing editor to Outdoor Photographer and PhotoWork magazines. He has written columns, feature articles, and interviews for Camera & Darkroom, View Camera, PIC, Shutterbug, Photo Shopper, and PhotoPro magazines. His previous two books with Focal Press, The Darkroom Cookbook and The Variable Contrast Printing Manual are photography best-sellers.
Steve's photographs have been exhibited in galleries and are shown in private collections. He photographs and prints both color and black-and-white with 35mm, 2-1/4 and large-format ccameras. He has conducted over 80 photographic and darkroom workshops since 1979. Steve is currently the program director for the Photographer's Formulary Workshops in Condon, Montana. In early 1998, the first collection of his personal work, entitled The Nude at Big Sur, will be published by Whitefish Editions.
