Creative Elements: Darkroom Techniques for Landscape Photography [Paperback]

Watson-Guptill (Author)

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From Library Journal

This large-format book is loaded with helpful information on all aspects of darkroom work, including film processing, enlarging, toning, and archival treatment. While emphasizing the landscape, photographer Ephraums discusses principles and methods that may be applied to most every kind of black-and-white photography. Twenty sample prints, each illustrating a different method of printing and/or toning, are featured, then explained with substantial notes and technical data. The illustrations are beautifully reproduced, giving would-be darkroom artists a good indication of how ordinary prints may be transformed into images striking in both texture and tone. Sure to be appreciated by amateur and professional photographers alike, Creative Elements is recommended for public and academic libraries, especially those that support photography or graphic arts programs.?Raymond Bial, Parkland Coll. Lib., Champaign, Ill.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Amphoto Books; F edition (August 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0817437169
• ISBN-13: 978-0817437169
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 10.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,186,807 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent practicum on the art of imaging and developing, October 14, 1997

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This review is from: Creative Elements: Darkroom Techniques for Landscape Photography (Paperback)

This is an excellent source of creative insight. I found this book helped me see more creative posibilities. I have tried many of the techniques, especially toning, outlined in this book and found the results very gratifying. In fact, by using the processing technique outlined in this book one of my images won a juried competition. This isn't a book for a beginner in the darkroom, but if you have experience and you are looking for more artistic insights, this is the book to buy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unprecedented Piece of Work on Darkroom Techniques, April 21, 1998

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This review is from: Creative Elements: Darkroom Techniques for Landscape Photography (Paperback)

This is a "must have" book for anyone who takes their black and white darkroom work seriously. Definitely not for the casual beginner. I have only just begun darkroom work myself, but have found that the book has allowed me to leap ahead by an unknown amount of time. Mr Epphraums includes all the information that he considers when he clicks the shutter as well as how he chooses the right frame to print in the darkroom. He spends vast amounts of energy explaining all of his different recipes for printing and toning. If you take your printing seriously, this is a book you shouldn't be without.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what I was looking for!, December 14, 1999

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Andrew Hollands - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creative Elements: Darkroom Techniques for Landscape Photography (Paperback)

This book is exactly what I have been searching for. It describes many techinques of B/W landscape darkroom work. Many images are included, not just the final product. Most describe a first shot, the final shot and many of the intermediate steps including photos, diagrams of zone and/or exposure analysis and thoughts about the process as a whole.

There are also section in the back of the book that give summary but useful information on exposure tables, exposure adjustment, chemical recipies and more.

Buy this book.