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Articles and Notes

General Notes

Equipment

Homemade Lenses
Here's a write up on a few homemade lenses that I have made. They can be easy to make and give unique and surprising results.

4x5 Pinhole Camera
A large format pinhole camera, I'm using a Polaroid back and have some interesting results with it.


Night

Tips for Night Photography
My tips for night photography, essential equipment, tools and techniques.

Exposures for Moonlight Photography
An article to help with night photography, specifically scenes illuminated by moonlight.

Reciprocity Tables for Various Film


Digital

Converting Color to B&W [Digital]
Different processes for converting color images to black and white.

How I print my digital photos
An article discussing the techniques I use to achieve the best quality digital prints.

Photoshop Elements: All the tool I need
An article about Adobe's slimmed down version of Photoshop, it still has all the power. Brief article, tips and tricks coming soon.


Black & White

Developing Black and White Film
Developer Times and Films, General Process and Procedures

Bleaching Black and White Prints and Film

Selenium Toning

Chris Johnson's Black and White Developer Notes


Bay Area Photography Resources

Art and Photography Books

Stores
Keeble and Shucat, Palo Alto
Adolph Gassers, San Francisco
Calumet, San Francisco

Labs and Processing
The New Lab, San Francisco
Calypso Imaging, Santa Clara

Mail Order
B&H Photo
Light Impressions
White House Custom Colour