creative colour darkroom techniques

[rbrigham]

hi

can anybody recommend a book or other resource that covers creative colour darkroom techniques

things like masking to colour specific parts of a print

I'm sure there are loads of other things that were done before photoshop in a colour darkroom
but there dose not seem to be a lot written about it beyond how to get correct colour balance

regards

robin

 

[Photo Engineer]

There are several of these, but I would have to look them up. One, IIRC, has a title the same as your thread.

PE

 

[rbrigham]

thanks Ron

I've just ordered

Gareis And Scheerer
Creative Colour Photography Exposure Darkroom Experiments Presentation

is that the one you had in mind ?
any other titles

also do you know who the names of any "great" colour printers who pushed the boy dreys as it were
such as Brian Dowling in London

thanks

robin

 

[Mick Fagan]

creative DARKROOM TECHNIQUES. Another ideas book from Kodak. AG-18 Cat. 142 2211

http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Darkroom-Techniques-Kodak-publication/dp/0879850752

This is probably what PE was thinking about. I have it and it's a pretty clever little book. There are quite a few techniques in this book that will give you plenty of ideas. Don't be put off that quite a bit of the book encompasses B&W, the techniques for B&W and colour are often intertwined, in fact chapter 5 is headed, Combining B&W and Color.

As it is available from 1 cent from this link, unless delivery is exhorbitant, I would say it's a bargain. Mick.

 

[Photo Engineer]

Mick, that is one of them, but there is one other and I have not found it yet.

I have too many books!

PE

 

[DREW WILEY]

Anything in print relating to masking is going to be of generic value and not up to date with present materials. But lots of those old manuals
do provide hints about equipment etc. Some of the most complete tutorials were by Bob Pace, though these were gear to either dye transfer printing or Cibachrome. I'm not aware of anything that is very good when it comes to understanding supplemental masking to color neg films, since most people didn't bother in that case. Maybe I'm one of a handful of people who does. The trick is to acquire a basic setup of the tools themselves, particularly a film punch and matching contact frame, which can be used for all kinds of masking techniques. But yeah, there's a reason so many Photoshop controls were named for something done by manually with film previously. And in some cases, I think film still does it better, though not necessarily faster. Anyway, masking can be fun, and be either as simple or involved as you care to
make it.

 

[Jim Rice]

http://ctein.com/PostExposure2ndIllustrated.pdf

 

[bvy]

http://ctein.com/PostExposure2ndIllustrated.pdf

Thank you!

 

[putrofedon]

Thanks for the book, Jim!