Dixons world of photography : Creative Darkroom Work

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INTRODUCTION

Creative Darkroom Work is an ideas book, a book brimming with imaginative printing techniques to tempt the darkroom enthusiast. It's also a very practical book with easy-to-follow explanations of the more involved processes.

There is something in the book for every darkroom addict. The beginner doesn't even need a negative to start work. There are experiments creating shadow and shape pictures from physical objects rather than images on film. Called photograms, the resulting pictures have lots of impact and cost little to create. Easy too are the toning processes that transform an ordinary monochrome image into distinctive shades of a basic colour. The most popular, sepia toning, adds a flavour of Victoriana to the picture. Also explained are the distortion techniques that can lengthen faces, widen grins and raise a laugh.

For the more advanced worker, creative Darkroom Work contains a wealth of exciting techniques and new ideas. There are practical suggestions for making colour photograms, and exciting techniques that produce graphic, poster-like images with weird and wonderful colours. Printing paper negatives, screen printing and multiple printing are just some of the other techniques the book teaches you to master.

In all, 24 different techniques are described. Each is well illustrated with an imaginative collection of images. They will inspire even the most conventional hobby printer to come up with a refreshing set of exhibition prints.

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