Photographic Post-Processing
Photographic post-processing lacks standardisation across studios, with individual practitioners often piecing together their workflows from detached, often conflicting online tutorials. This results in additive workflows - assembled by layering discrete, disjointed techniques progressively until an image appears complete - that hinder transparency. These notes contain transcribed lectures demonstrating cohesive, seamless approaches for adapting traditional, subtractive darkroom techniques to balance image quality, turnaround speed and revision flexibility.
December 12, 2024
In order to complete the black and white photograph from Part I, I need to adopt a more hyper-local, value based approach in my Second Pass if I wish to convey the refined finish I set out to achieve....
December 6, 2024
To achieve a refined, high-end finish for our black and white photography, we should aim to adapt traditional fine-art darkroom approaches to our digital post-processing methods, ideally in two distinct stages....