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Darkroom Photography TutorialsdeviantART is home to thousands of useful tutorials on just about every topic imaginable.
If you want to try your hand at darkroom photography, or simply gain a greater understanding of the medium, here are a few to get you started...


Confused by film types and formats? Don't know your 35mm from your instant processing? This tutorial is a good place to start.

No camera? No problem! Make your own.
  
One exposure not enough? Here's how to do the double.

Time to develop? Read these!
 
Maybe you want to try some alternative processing. Here's how to make a negative from a digital photo.

Cyanotypes are fun, safe and easy. Find out how to make your own.
 
Want to take your instant film shots further? Try an emulsion lift!

Love vintage looks but don't have access to darkroom chem
General Photography: September + October NewsBringing you the recent shenanigans in your General Photography Gallery!
Announcements
:star: Monthly Critique Photography Thread!
Contests
Capture Your PUMPKIN Contest ~ Deadline, November 5thSeasonal People & Portrait Contest ~ Deadline, November 30thDaily Deviation Roundups
General Photography September 2012 from ^3wylGeneral Photography September 2012 by ^Kaz-D
Photography Troubleshooting: Capturing AutumnFor many Photographers, Autumn is now officially here and is one of the most exciting seasons to capture in terms of colour, change and vistas. Early morning mist, late afternoon sun, orange, red and golden hues - Autumn has a lot to offer in many countries. If you're like me, Autumn often arrives all at once and it can be tricky to know how to make the best of the season before it's over. A couple of days of high winds and rain can ruin the best Autumnal captures by ripping the leaves down before you've even got the chance to snap - so it's great to be prepared for the season.

Leading lines are particularly useful. Yet so many people quote ' Look for leading lines...' or 'You've captured the leading lines here perfectly' and really do we even know properly what they are? The purpose of a leading line is to draw a viewers eye into the photograph and then on a journey - through it. Think of it as a visual narrative. They can be intentional and ind
PE Daily Deviations: What if...? 
Hello everyone! :wave:
After news articles explaining 'The Myth and the Legend' of the Daily Deviations, how to suggest them, tolerance towards Daily Deviations, the negativity, the focus on the notes and what it actually is, this article tackle the 'What if...?' scenarios t
Darkroom DDs: October 2012These beautiful darkroom photographs were featured as Daily Deviations in October 2012.
                              
Make a Difference #188Artists join deviantART to share their art and appreciate others. Due to the many artists out there, it's easy to get towed under and generally obscured from the public.
Make a Difference aims to do exactly that. This series of articles will hopefully make a difference to you as well as the artists featured weekly. Just by giving one minute of your time to write constructive comments, favourites and even watches will make a difference to these artists.
:iconRobinHalioua:'s landscapes are magnificent and awe-inspiring. The lighting and colours are both key features that work together so well to convey a scenery that is pretty mesmerising indeed!

*RobinHalioua's Gallery
:iconbleedthedream180:'s poetry is profound in concept, further highlighted through the brilliant use of rhythm and rhyme. Th
Make a Difference #179Artists join deviantART to share their art and appreciate others. Due to the many artists out there, it's easy to get towed under and generally obscured from the public.
Make a Difference aims to do exactly that. This series of articles will hopefully make a difference to you as well as the artists featured weekly. Just by giving one minute of your time to write constructive comments, favourites and even watches will make a difference to these artists.
:iconstefanhefele:'s landscapes are definitely something to see, just because the brilliance of nature will just blow you away. I can't feature all of *StefanHefele's pieces, though many, if not all, are simply breath-taking and deserve to be seen in full-view.

*StefanHefele's Gallery
:iconbleedthedream180: With rhymes both thought-provoki
Project Educate: Still Life with ClareManson~claremanson pretty much  had me addicted to her photography the moment I stumbled into her gallery. Clare not only photographs her awesome creations but she also shares the recipes. But what really hooked my interest was the Oreo Pizza...

:iconclaremanson:
What area of Still Life Photography do you find yourself favouring?
It has to be food photography. I love to bake and i love to photograph so being able to bring the two together is a great feeling. There is nothing more satisfying to me than being able to capture the beauty of something you have put your heart into making.

What are the challenges and merits of undertaking Still Life?
The biggest challenge for me is lighting, being in the UK where the sky is often overcast natural light can be hard to come across.
A lot of the time i plan my baking and photography sessions around the weather and time of day to get the best
Project Educate: Expressing and EmotingEssentially, these are mostly the same thing with a few minor differences which are explained below. But before we move onto that, there's an important message to share when it comes to categorising your work. To get the best out of the photography galleries it's vitally important that you categorise your work properly. That' why these weeks exist in some respects, to help educate you through that. With regards to Daily Deviations - Community Volunteers will not give features to pieces of work that are mis-categorised. They might assist you by moving your work or explaining where it should go, but seeing a deliberate miscat is a bit off-putting when it comes to choosing pieces to showcase. Take some time to have a look through your gallery (I'm going to do the same!) and figure out if everything is in the right place. If you're struggling, just ask. We're here to help. What we won't do is rearrange your whole gallery for you. We will however, work with you to try and straighten things
Four Line Long Poems -Contest ending SOON!Contest Update
Just a few days left to go! Get your entries in NOW!
A recent discovery of the very innovative idea from Alex Valentine on Four Line Long Poems has prompted a mini-revolution here on deviantART as ^3wyl and I plotted and schemed to create something not dissimilar to #SixWordStories. Thus, ~FourLinePoems was born! It's a group that's completely open to everyone and anyone who would like to join and the exciting news is that, with its launch, we are announcing the first Four Line Poem Competition!
Dates
:bulletblack: Contest Open: 15th December 2012, Midnight PST.
:bulletblack: Contest Close: 15th January 2013, Midnight PST.
:bulletblack: Winners Announcement: After 1st February
Rules & Examples
Four Line Poems are exactly that - just four lines long!
:bulletgreen: One entry per person.
:bulletgreen: Entries must be newly submitted to deviantART, in Literature Format:
What is Traditional Darkroom?What is Traditional Darkroom?
Traditional Darkroom is where it all began. It started in a world where the word 'photography' didn't yet exist and the art of creating images of reality with light and chemicals sat somewhere between science and magic. Did you know that the mathematicians Aristotle and Euclid describe pinhole cameras in the 4th and 5th centuries?

In the early 1800s, artist/inventors like Louis Dageurre and Henry Fox Talbot (among others) experimented with ways of fixing images using chemicals, including silver compounds, following exposures on materials like glass and metal, lasting from several minutes to several hours. By 1840, Talbot was creating negative images using the calotype process and John Herschel had invented the cyanotype process (where the term 'blueprint' comes from) and created the first glass negative in 1839.

In the middle part of the 1800s, the wet plate collodion process be
What is Digital Darkroom?What is Digital Darkroom?
Digital Darkroom is the evolution, converting chemical processes to digital ones, cellulose and silver to pixels and bytes. The first digital camera, weighing 8 pounds with a resolution of 0.01 megapixels, was built in 1975 and recorded black and white images to a cassette tape. The first camera which recorded images as computerised files was made by Fuji in 1988 and the first commercially available digital camera was created in 1990.

The Digital Darkroom gallery on dA is for photographs which have been digitally processed or edited with the use of computer software to emulate traditional and alternative film darkroom techniques. It's also a place for very modern processes like HDR photography, which involves creating images with a higher range of visible tones than regular photography.

Most of the functions available in digital editing software were created to mimic actual darkroom
PE: Why I would/wouldn't DD an artist that has....Full title: Why I would/wouldn't give a 5th DD or a DD to a piece with 1200 faves.
Disclaimer: This is a compilation article written by ^RockstarVanity, ^pullingcandy and ^Lyricanna.  While we do not speak for the whole team, some of the points do generalize.  I want to state now that these are preferences, not hard fast rules and every CV has their own.  The only hard fast rules are that resources must be credited and no one can receive more than one DD within 6 months. 
Have you ever wondered why some CVs include fave or DD limits in their DD suggestion guidelines?  Why some of us will give a 6th DD or DD a piece with 10 000 faves and others will not?  Here are some reasons why.
Why won't you DD an artist that already has 5 DDs?
:iconlyricanna: The reason for this at it's simplest is to involve as much of the community as possible in DDs.  The more detailed version has 3 factors
Introduction to the Darkroom galleryIntroduction to the Darkroom gallery on dA
Darkroom on dA is a tribute to the traditional, involving chemical developing and printing techniques which have barely changed since the birth of photography, a symbol of the modern, making use of technological advances in digital processing, and a whole lot of amazing and beautiful things in between.

While the majority of Photography galleries on dA are subject-based, Darkroom is technique-based. Photographs using Darkroom techniques are generally accepted in the other photography galleries too, but if you wish to categorise your Darkroom photography submission based on how it was created, then Photography > Darkroom is here to allow you to do that.

If you're not a photographer, or you arrived on your photographic journey at a time when digital was in full swing, you may have never shot on film, been temporarily blinded by walking into daylight after hours spen
Celebrating Diversity #9Often we get lost in habits and do the same thing over and over again, and we forget about all the wonderful options there is out there. Celebrating Diversity is a series of articles that remind us how wide and rich the art world is and of the variety of options available on deviantART.
I have to admit, I'm guilty of not browsing all of the galleries as much as I should. I love the Artisan Crafts world and I often get lost in its galleries and forget about the rest, so this time I went through all of the galleries looking for awesome art for this article, and I discovered forms of art I didn't even know about! It was a fantastic experience and I hope this series of articles will encourage you to do the same.

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Darkroom Photography Week Round-Up

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Darkroom Photography week at #projecteducate is over.
Here's a round-up of the articles posted...



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*AnyLuck Dec 3, 2012
Thank you for the wonderfully interesting week! I enjoyed it very much!
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`RockstarVanity Dec 3, 2012  Professional Photographer
You're very welcome :aww:
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*lexxii Dec 2, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Excellent :) :iconlexxii:
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`RockstarVanity Dec 3, 2012  Professional Photographer
Thank you :hug:
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*lexxii Dec 3, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Welcome :iconmypleasure: :iconlexxii:
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*AJ333 Dec 2, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Awesome! Thank you for posting these articles and hosting the week :la:
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`RockstarVanity Dec 3, 2012  Professional Photographer
You're very welcome :hug:
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^Kaz-D Dec 2, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
This was a really awesome week! :heart:
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`RockstarVanity Dec 3, 2012  Professional Photographer
:glomp: Thanks for the support!
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