STREAMED On-Demand Delivery +
One-on-One Workshop Sessions
With Weekly Zoom Tutorials
This workshop includes one-on-one sessions so the course material can be focused on your specific interests and objectives, and any follow up questions can be subsequently answered in our weekly Zoom tutorials. The cost is AUD $350 including all fees and charges.
The workshop explores the unique qualities and advantages of B&W film. It is exposed, calibrated, and processed for both analogue optical printing and digital editing and pigment inkjet printing. Traditional values and photographic processes combine to produce exquisite BW images of a quality that is difficult to obtain in a digital workflow. Small and medium roll film and large format sheet film processing is covered, including the control and extraordinarily eloquent qualities of staining developers, the remarkable effects of acutance development, dynamic range expansion and compression processing, and desensitising and inspection development. Pictorial design concepts such as Static and Dynamic Unity further qualify the significant aesthetic advantages and unique spatial qualities that beautifully exposed and processed film automatically confer.
The workshop is conducted through a series of experiments, darkroom demonstrations, film calibrations, and practical applications, all camera formats are covered and B&W film is selected, exposed, processed and calibrated during the workshop. The aim is to understand and work with the advantages of film based capture without compromising efficiency while obtaining analogue images of the highest quality. Our Zoom Tutorials answer all your follow up questions along with real time comparisons, evaluations and interactions between attendees and their film based workflows.
The workshop is presented via one-on-one recorded sessions, weekly Zoom tutorials, and streamed on-demand resources – Notes, Videos, Film-Exposure Calibrations, Chemical Formulae – covering the following topics in a fully searchable database and accessed without restriction via the Workshop’s Resource Website.
Film Selection
• Film formats
• Speed
• Grain
• Acutance
• Gradation
• Spectral sensitivity
Film Exposure
• Pre-visualisation
• Reflected versus incident metering
• Spot meters
• Calibrating light meters
• Working with contrast filters
• Reciprocity failure and bellows/lens extension
Film Processing
• Speed/Grain/Acutance/Gradation trade-offs
• What is Normal – density and colorimetric controls
• Temperature control and processing consistency
• Pyro and Pyrocatechin staining development (formula for optical printing)
• Non staining fine grain developers (formula for scanning)
• Processing equipment, film handling, and H&S considerations
Film Calibration
• The Zone System in theory and practice
• Parametric calibrations: N-3 to N+3 Exposure & Development
• Dissolving film grain
• Reducing artefacts
• Desensitisation
• Development by inspection
Also there are no time restrictions or viewing limits on any of the workshop resources including the Workshop’s Consultation Recordings. And as additional questions arise they can be answered by attending our weekly Tutorials live-steamed over ZOOM ensuring consistent and ongoing support.
Venue: One-on-One Workshop Sessions
Duration: 6+ hours (workshop + tutorials)
Resources: Extensive course notes, videos, test images, actions, macros, luts
Cost: AUD $350 (includes all fees and charges)
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Updated 02 July 2026