Mexican living in Mexico. Dipped my toes in photography with a Kodak Brownie Six-20 3LR (Three Lens Reflex) that I extracted from my tightwalleted father as a 1959 Xmas gift by blackmailing him on keeping mum about the true ID of Santa to my kid bro, 5 years my younger. 
Shooting uninterruptedly ever since. My first "serious" camera, a Pentax Spotmatic is still with me since 2007. Hit the darkroom in 1998 through a relative that coached me and led me to purchase my first enlarger, a Durst M300 that I would take out of my boarding room closet, assemble it and proceed to set up my makeshift darkroom in my bathroom Saturday nights. A collapsible table in the shower and black plastic curtains attached with (then new) velcro.
Learned color (AGFA) in 1972 and stopped doing RA4 in 2006 that I found printing digitally gave me purer colors than Supra II. I still do my own C41; local labs are pigsties.
Closed the enlarger part of my darkroom in 2016 when I found Baryta coated fiber based digital paper gave me B&W prints indistinguishable from my wet ones. Nowadays I just process my film, both B&W as color negs.
Have many questions about new techniques and DIY soups (paRodinal mainly). Care to orient me to the proper forum to ask?
TIA, Jorge M. Treviño.
FB Wall. Albums.
Shooting uninterruptedly ever since. My first "serious" camera, a Pentax Spotmatic is still with me since 2007. Hit the darkroom in 1998 through a relative that coached me and led me to purchase my first enlarger, a Durst M300 that I would take out of my boarding room closet, assemble it and proceed to set up my makeshift darkroom in my bathroom Saturday nights. A collapsible table in the shower and black plastic curtains attached with (then new) velcro.Learned color (AGFA) in 1972 and stopped doing RA4 in 2006 that I found printing digitally gave me purer colors than Supra II. I still do my own C41; local labs are pigsties.
Closed the enlarger part of my darkroom in 2016 when I found Baryta coated fiber based digital paper gave me B&W prints indistinguishable from my wet ones. Nowadays I just process my film, both B&W as color negs.
Have many questions about new techniques and DIY soups (paRodinal mainly). Care to orient me to the proper forum to ask?
TIA, Jorge M. Treviño.
FB Wall. Albums.
