Amateur Photographer

Get the darkroom look

How do you produce a black & white digital print that emulates the qualities of a darkroom print, is it possible? What is the perceived quality of a silver print produced by some of the exponents of the darkroom, the likes of Ansel Adams or Tim Rudman, both producing quite different types of prints? Producing high-quality black & white digital prints has been democratised with modern printers, software, and a wide choice of archival papers. Split Grade printing is a term that’s familiar to most darkroom printers but how can we introduce this technique to our workflow in

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