Bad hair day — by Bruce Robbins on February 24, 2025

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Not sure why I like this pic. Maybe it’s the stark nature of the scene or the atmosphere - I love a bit of mist. I was sitting at the PC loo...

That 1980s warm tone look — by Bruce Robbins on February 14, 2025

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  Sometimes I look at a print made using only a pigment black ink and wonder if it’s too warm. Alongside one from the dye equivalent, it usu...

My favourite darkroom paper - gone — by Bruce Robbins on February 04, 2025

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Carse Graveyard from a few years back showing the characteristic warmth of Fomatone 133 Having left the darkroom behind - but hopefully not ...

Striking the right tone — by Bruce Robbins on February 01, 2025

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An iphone pic I took the other day whilst out for a walk with the dog. I've since tweaked the curves for the dye and pigment blacks so t...

Final Printing Tweaks — by Bruce Robbins on January 20, 2025

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That’s my tweaking at an end as far as printing on Marrutt’s velvet fine art paper is concerned. The linearisation process (see previous pos...

Beam me up, Agfa — by Bruce Robbins on January 18, 2025

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Well, here’s something I never thought I’d ever be writing about, especially in relation to inkjet printing. A densitometer is as exotic to ...

Kirkmichael — by Bruce Robbins on January 16, 2025

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I’m beginning to feel like Alan Whicker (for those of you with grey beards). First Pitlochry, then Enochdhu and now Kirkmichael, the small v...

Pitlochry in Close-Up — by Bruce Robbins on January 15, 2025

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  It’s the Highland Perthshire town of Pitlochry we’re visiting today - not that you’d have any clue from these wee vignettes. This isn’t re...

Enochdhu — by Bruce Robbins on January 14, 2025

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Near Enochdhu. D700 and 28-105 AF Nikkor at 105mm. We're in the middle of a week-long break just a 90-minute drive from where we live, a...