i started in jr high in my father's darkroom, complete wet/dry and some no-name enlarger. did only B&W because of cost of the hardware. experimented a lot with standard developers, push processing, and types of paper. read a lot about developer formulations but didn't try any of them. at college, i used the Art faculty's student access darkroom and did a lot of newpaper/yearbook type of photography for the campus papers. learned a lot about the printing process of turning images into printed pages. i did Cibrachromes of some of my slides, but never any slide processing. E-6 was new at the time and E-4 was too fussy for me to bother. left college and haven't done any since. i had a minor desire to try again about 10 years ago but didn't want to deal with the chemicals. i never liked that part of darkroom work. now, i farm out any slide processing to a professional lab. i sometimes shoot print film if the client insists on prints and negatives, but mostly i turn these down.
i seriously started selling my images when people began to see them via word of mouth pointing to my web site. i have pictures from specific locations that aren't normally found in stock photo libraries. the vast majority of the images that started this were from digital sources. worked on a couple of books where my images made up a fair portion of the photos, but these are volunteer activities. it's time for a reprint for one of them and i need to update the text with various corrections. went 'round and 'round with the publisher trying to figure out a way to print the book in color without breaking the bank, but couldn't bring the costs down enough. there is a full Pagemaker layout of the book with the photos in color on a CD somewhere. it would cost about $50 to print a single copy on my Epson 1280 printer. Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PDML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 11:19 AM Subject: Just curious ... > Who on this list has never developed their own film and made prints in a > darkroom?
