How to Print Color Film in the Darkroom

[@WillemVerb]

I hope you enjoyed following this process. Back next week with a video shooting some 35mm ;) Also a special thank you to Storyblocks. This kind of stuff is really the reason I'm able to make these videos so I appreciate the support! You can check them out here: storyblocks.com/WillemVerbeeck

[@gimmeanythin]

I landed here because I was curious to know how complex this process was. Now I'm charged up enough to brush up my granddad's old Yashica SLR and get back to old school photography...

[@BryanBirks]

Crazy how everything involved in digital programs comes from all of this. I never put it together and doing it all by hand makes it even more impressive.

[@eeawnn]

I never realized how much detail you could get out of film. After developing and enlarging/printing 35mm film, there's so much detail to scan off those prints as compared to just the negatives. I can't imagine how much you'd get from 120mm film.

[@mmh53]

"they know how to be together" such a legend! thanks for creating and sharing Willem!

[@WillemVerb]

I love that as well haha :))

[@vitezslavlanger967]

9:20 the editing, the music, the photo Its like a nostalgic sting, I have never thought i would be emotionally moved by a how to video on printing color film. Impressive.

[@mitchtube3]

I absolutely adore this man's attention to detail and perfectionism in his work. So important for people like him to be doing that job.

[@stasis7127]

This is amazing! I love playing around in lightroom and can spend hours on a single photo, but to see the skill of that process being done in analogue with tactile, bodily interventions is incredible. What a wonderful, special job. Thank you for the insight!

[@ChizAfterHours]

It's really neat to watch this and see the similarities and differences between color and black and white darkroom work. I've been printing black and white in a darkroom for two years now...seeing how color is done is pretty cool. I will say the machine is a nice touch since I'm used to trays and manually developing.

[@sushi523]

This is so cool to see, I wish I had the opportunity to print color photos in a darkroom. At school one of our teacher who is very passionate about photography set up a drakroom in the school basement for black and white prints. It's such an incredible practice and great to see a picture come together. Our darkroom is completely manual, so we mix the chemicals ourselves and develop the photographs step by step. The paper isn't cheap but it is such a rewarding thing to do. I absolutely love it.

[@jameslane3846]

Ilford Multigrade RC 5x7" paper is really cheap. £0.25 per sheet

[@sushi523]

@@jameslane3846 thanks i'll check it out!

[@m.acie.k]

Imagine if every photographer cared like that for your prints

[@norbertsteinkamp9380]

Wonderful! It's great to see Richard at work, and that the master printer's expertise creates room for intuitive interventions into the process. Beautiful images, too!

[@njsn9_]

I found your channel from one wild suggestion on KZbin, I'm now deep in the rabbit hole of the hobby and have a film camera beinf sent my way. Thanks I guess hahaha

[@kratosgodII]

It’s really cool to see the printing process in a fully equipped lab. Right now I do my colour printing at home in trays with no temperature control. I’ve had no problems with results or repeatability, but a dry to dry processor would totally make things so much easier!

[@mattdayphoto]

Ummmm is he editing the color in the darkroom? Wow I thought film was supposed to be raw and untouched? Were there taken on a digital camera that uses film?

[@andtothewestamerica]

Sorry but that's just silly. For all of time, the master printers who created prints for pros exerted a huge amount of control over the printing process affecting all aspects of the final print including exposure, contrast and color.

[@mattdayphoto]

I should've been a fisherman.

[@mattdayphoto]

@@geastman Haha, I just meant I should have been a fisherman because people took my comment as bait! I was only joking in my original comment. :)

[@mattdayphoto]

Bobby Brady I was just making an inside joke on my friend’s video. Wasn’t trying to ruin anyone’s day.

[@WillemVerb]

HAHAHAHHAHA

[@rihatsu9622]

I had a beautiful experience yesterday, I participated a demonstration in a small photography/print shop where i know the owner and the guy that was there showed us the instruments and the functioning. The process is incredible especially when u see the image appearing over the paper, the patience that u need and the struggle to find certain contrast/ colours, all this for free. Fun fact we printed some B/W images but my friends brought only expired and coloured negatives so we had an experiment and we actually had a interesting result. (i'm gonna post the image and share the link if u are interested to see it)

[@Fnzzy]

Printing colour can be so much fun if you have a machine that does the annoying developing for you and removes the need to clean out the tank after every single print.

[@dianab.5381]

I never realized how much effort to make prints, it's really cool to see how it's done... plus I'm glad to see that you took awesome photographs of those 2 houses before they tore them down.

[@jannadelle]

More videos like this! I love seeing the process of making photographs. Good luck on your New Jersey project 💙

[@WillemVerb]

Thank you so much! Glad you liked it.

[@lordsoffilm5459]

"You can print with feeling." Amen, brother.

[@jonmikolrosario]

this is wild! very cool and always gets me curious on how these small business work when it comes to all the work they put into their product

[@emilecrowther8594]

I so jealous, I used to print my self back in college, but my work was weak. I'm a very big fan of your stunning work Willem, for some strange reason I feel sad watching this, I think that's why I like your work. It's beautiful and meaningful in an ever maddening world. I hope one day I can produce work as meaningful as yours. Keep it up bro, by the way do you skate? You have a skaters vibe going on. Ha rambling night time comment.

[@bobsykes]

This is so interesting! Wow, five or ten full sheets of paper to get the final print right! I guess you save this for your very best of the best. The detail and natural color and contrast must be amazing. I can’t wait for the NJ project book, and this time, I’m going to buy BIG print for my wall if you offer any. Cheers, and thanks for these videos!

[@WillemVerb]

I appreciate that so much bob! Thanks for keeping up with everything it means a lot! :))

[@mbox314]

An amazing amount of talent and resources spent making prints of extremely unintresting subjects.

[@bellamysmiles]

I knew color printing was more complicated that black and white (which I’m taking a class on) but it’s fascinating to watch how much adjusting and fine tuning goes into it!

[@dakotarouck2016]

Willem, the production on your videos are just getting so much better. Wonderfully shot.

[@franciscopcoutinho]

This was great. I finally understood where the names "dodge" and "burn" come from!

[@alisaredlich7672]

omg! how he changed the colours from the beginning to the end! He is gifted

[@PhilKnall]

This was awesome to see! I was surprised to see how many choices the printer makes for you. I usually print at a rental darkroom where the owner is pretty hands-off (I think most of his customers, including me, go there to enjoy the process and figuring stuff out themselves) so it's interesting to see how a professional/commercial printer works. Also amazing to see the retouching, that's something I've never done or had done to my prints and am really interested in.

[@WillemVerb]

That’s awesome! I personally use a rental darkroom quite a bit as well when I’m doing it on my own time which is super fun

[@PhilKnall]

@@WillemVerb Yeah it really is. Watching this video really made me go and pint again! (I made a video about it recently too if you feel like checking it out)

[@kgpalermo360]

And they say film photography, doesnt need edit, but the beauty of film photography is when you work it out in a Darkroom same with lightroom now

[@yannisaitaddi8665]

This video deserves way more views.. so good !

[@anthonymacaluso5909]

sick supreme hoodie bro. the house painting was my favorite for sure. came out beautifully. I can see the improvement in your videos already

[@rowangallagher]

Wow analogue lightroom essentially. Fascinating to see the dodge tool. Never knew it was a real thing outside lightroom.

[@TylerDickey1]

I loved spotting prints, such a nice slow meditative experience.

[@sebloff]

I used to print black and white but havent been for a while thank you for being an inspo♥️

[@MichaelCarter]

Me too, I did not know color print paper existed, but 16x20 BW ok

[@panelsandbars]

This is super informative and lovingly filmed and edited like all your uploads. Love it.

[@kelvinclancy7609]

You may want to do a test roll with/without a skylight filter to help correct the blue cast. This filter was something that was on nearly every film camera for many years for good reason.

[@anexaz666]

Awesome video andan really those enlarged photos come to life

[@titofly00]

I love this videos so much! Thank you for showing this kind of content, your channel is one of my happy places.

[@btrdangerdan2010]

I love the slideshow transitions at the end

[@jasonblake5576]

Great video Willem! Always been interested in knowing how the enlarger operator finds starting points for the color filters. 👏👏

[@michaelcarnevale3250]

Loved this one! I miss doing my own b&w prints, I need to get back on it. Keep these coming dude.

[@peterpatenaude6684]

Just seeing this video. Really nice to see some more darkroom work on youtube.

[@chrisworld2]

I knew the neon sign reflection in that house window was familiar looking. That’s the Wawa in Wildwood, NJ just as you come onto the island on Rio Grande Ave

[@songoftheyear7046]

Just started learning film photography. So now I’m thinking of developing film myself, as nobody develops film anymore where I live. Thanks!

[@mattqua5312]

Willem, I'm going to spend way too much money on prints now, damn it! I rarely do it but especially the darkroom prints seem to look sooooo nice! And, wonderful video as usual.

[@zguy95135]

Damn man, the darkroom prints look so good!

[@jenohogan9254]

We had to do darkroom colour printing when I was in art school. It was so nerve wracking. The process is so much more temperature & light sensitive than black and white. However, it was cool learning & trying out the process.

[@bfs5113]

Yeah, color printing could be a PITA. First, one needed to get an initial setting for the enlarger and it was much easier if one had a color analyzer and a reference slide/negative from the slides/negatives that needed to be printed. Then some wet processing involved a single chemical at room temperature or multiple chemicals at specified temperature. A color print drum tumbler could be helpful as well.

[@hermannkroeis]

The colors on these prints look awsome. Nice work and thanks for good content as always ✌️

[@Kaze919]

Awesome, I’m picking up a Hasselblad from a friend to use for a few weeks so im excited to try it out

[@outlawpreacher5936]

Great video to encompass a vast and intricate art form❤️

[@erindowney2150]

Yoo I'm learning how to colour print later this week and have been looking around for a good video on it and now I've got this ayy

[@LaskyLabs]

I would love to see some darkroom prints from color positive film. Especially the vibrant Velvia 50

[@joshuajoldfield]

Oh man this was so rad! Could easily watch an hour long vid on this

[@jameslane3846]

I have my own darkroom which I use mainly to print my BnW film but my enlarger is a colour head so this video has got me very interested to try it out especially as the prints look gorgeous!

[@jameslane3846]

@Bobby Brady how so?

[@jameslane3846]

@Bobby Brady first of all, film is making a huge revival, a revival to stay. Do you understand why? It's not about cost, no film photographer cares about that and neither is resolution unless they're a LF shooter. It's about the unique result and process of film that film photographers prefer. Hate all you want but that's not gonna stop people expressing their art how they want to express it. Would you criticise a painter for painting instead of photographing because it's expensive and less detailed? Would you criticise someone that likes to watch an orchestra perform in a concert when you can just stream it? Isn't the output on paper is the same where you're just "listening to music?" Have you not considered that many people like me switched away from digital just because we simply don't like it? Film photography saved my photography, I was about to give it up because I hated the look and process of digital. It was mentally exhausting and I hated being on the computer. Frankly Bobby, you are very narrow minded and spew the usual toxicity that is usually restricted to the realm of digital photography discussions.

[@jameslane3846]

@Bobby Brady there is something seriously wrong with you, lol

[@rutemacedo5423]

Just discovered your channel and I´m loving it!

[@IlBella_]

Man this is outstanding. Soooo technical work. I learned a lot with this video . Thanks as usual. In this video, for me, you looks like Elliot of Mr. Robot ahah

[@carterbliss8109]

Printing photos and that process is what made me decide too major in photography

[@MB-or8js]

The printer with dryer is a huge relief to have in this process - I tried the so-called RA-4 color printing process from color negatives with a color diffuser enlarger myself, but it was a huge pain. If you don't have the printer&dryer as shown here, every time I needed to put one test print into a Jobo roller drum, add chemicals which are very sensitive to air and develop plus start all over again. Very time consuming and not much fun. Only do B&W printing in my darkroom since and print the scanned negatives on my inkjet printer instead.

[@bfs5113]

To match the printing portion of the ease of using the printer & dryer back then for amateur photographers, Kodak had this Ektaflex color negative printing kit that only needed a single chemical solution and could be done at room temperature. Just filled the Ektaflex with the chemical, feed the paper in and turn the handle to get the paper through the chemical and out from the processor.

[@Fairychild432]

Dang you gained another 6k subscribers in a weeks time? That's impressive, congrats!

[@donmarco567]

More of that!! Loved to see the printing process

[@maxwellwellmax878]

when i took Photography we had a nice Dark room and the guy in charge used to blast 60s and 70s rock all the time :D good times!

[@tomcraft2970]

hey man just wanted to let you know that your work has inspired me to start my own photo book / large zine that I am 55 images into and hopefully will be published

[@igaluitchannel6644]

So much warmth to an analog neg.

[@KodakBoy]

I once tried to make a tutorial video in a darkroom Dropped my camera in developer So I guess I now need to FIX it 😂😆😄😅😞😖😭 I Hate Myself

[@mattdayphoto]

I Hate Photographers 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@WillemVerb]

Clever

[@KodakBoy]

Matt Day 😎

[@caitlin5352]

Hell yeah a Willem vid!! :)

[@avery7134]

I really enjoy these photos!

[@SuperDomo69]

Always amazing stuff, clicked so fast

[@LOWEX23]

This video is AMAZING!!

[@frankwu1713]

I went to this place to develop my films now after watching your videos, black and white there is a little expensive because they are doing it by hand. But the results that came out was decent

[@ferencbodor]

Thank you so much for making my Sunday!

[@alexiscosar8980]

Awesome video mate ! Just good work, keep it up !

[@MaxLamdin]

can definitely see the Meyerowitz influence in those images

[@RS-Amsterdam]

one word : AMAZING !! Thanks for sharing

[@allendrexel7622]

Awesome video, Willem. I see that the old purple Dodge keeps recurring in your vids, which I assume means it makes the cut for your future book/exhibition. I hope so - really fine work!

[@WillemVerb]

It definitely is part of the final project regardless of what form its gonna be. Thank you so much :))

[@danielbarrientos4529]

Great video as always willem!

[@wcoyote2276]

I did color and black and white prints for years. While I would still to black and white prints, I will NEVER do color prints in the darkroom again. Yes, I had some of the best equipment Beseler enlarger and color analyzer. The color chemical temperature were always spot on. Changing the color settings with each new box of paper. Change the film and the color settings change. Color is just a Royal Pain.

[@crwn_munkz]

Best thing to do is print in the darkroom, a lot of learning and it even makes you a different photographer, cuz now you what to look for exposure wise and what not for your final print.👍🏽

[@andraejulian]

I love the content!!! Also the music you used! Thank you Willem!

[@Ayodhika]

amazing how much difference it may make!

[@kenx.227]

WHERE IS MY SQUARESPACE SPONSOR? Altough, excellent video, like always!

[@netspheres]

Awesome video, you keep on improving your work!

[@elderinmoi1571]

Awesome work. I doubt that I can find someone so passionate about printing here in my town. Must be very expensive to work that way too.

[@GregoryVeizades]

I'd be very curious to compare a scanned darkroom print vs a scanned negative of the same image to see what the differences in detail are. Seems weird to me to scan an enlarged print but bigger is better I guess.

[@ncmike33]

Good video, but that's a great deal of effort and cost to get to correct color balance and exposure. I prefer to make one test print using a Mitchell Colorbrator and use it to calibrate a ColorStar 3000 analyzer after using a reference negative from the batch shot with a Macbeth color chart - typically nail color balance and exposure the first time with the ColorStar and waste no more (or 2nd print for sure when its ever so slightly off). Could have also shown how to use color viewing filters - it takes some time and experience to eyeball 5 cc or even 10 cc's of shift. Also, maybe I'm just maniacal about dust, but I have a virtual 'clean room' with a DC Anti-Static Ionizer and Heppa air cleaner as well as a dual encased film drying cabinet - good dust control practice and handling should require no manual retouching.

[@IvarsDayLab]

@Willem You were showing once a how to make a photo prints to a small polaroid size/type cards. I can't find this video, can you please point me in that direction?

[@BenjoC8632]

Excellent stuff, you really do a great job! I still love shooting on my late father’s old Nikon F2!”. GREAT camera.

[@ChickenAtomic]

This Richard guy looks like Paul Thomas Anderson it’s crazy

[@cedricribeiro9675]

Hi Willem, I would like to see a editing tutorial on how to edit colors in Lightroom to look like film.

[@sonygoup]

If I ever come to NY I'm definitely getting some prints done

[@astore3757]

My God I'm praying you ... please give me again the CIBACHROME!!!

[@sanyaes_library8020]

so cool to see behind the scenes

[@vikasgotra5344]

Hi Willem, may I know what levels/categories of scanners are used to digitize the prints?

[@the_meaning_of_love]

Hello 🤗 the last video you did with this people about film develop in the lab, I finished with the feeling that it was too superficial, but this one really goes into the details of the process and one can learn a lot from it, congrats 😘 I guess all that process nowadays only find it context on final prints that are going to be exhibited for example, having in mind the long process it takes and how expensive the service must be. Are there photographers that do this process in a general basis? If so I guess one must be so picky about how many pictures are printed from each roll... All the love ♥️

[@WillemVerb]

Yes! Its done much more frequently with fashion work :)

[@leenkestens45]

HOW GOOD is this video!!! 💥

[@Slice_by_price]

A lot of work goes into making the prints. Is it considerably more expensive than digital c type or even high quality inkjet?

[@K-Lexx]

Never clicked a video so fast before!

[@declareddifferent3213]

thanks so much for this great video!!! great prints too

[@andrejesus474]

This is a super modern darkroom. =) In my school we have to wait for ages.

[@michaelc4917]

So I assume this is just for large format film? 35mm printing is still just a digital print of the scan?

[@CreativeLeadershipwithDaniel]

I feel like I got some unsolicited but surprisingly valid relationship advice 1:44