Grant Brittain - Darkroom

[@toddkalbfeld4602]

Best video I've seen in years. Chose the greatest music ever!!

[@B_Chanslor]

This man has captured some of the most iconic photographs ever in skateboarding. Not just one iconic photograph, but several. And for that, thank you, Mr.Brittain.

[@DavetheChimp]

my favourite skate photo ever!!!

[@thezian]

Great video, thanks for sharing!

[@sebastianquiroga1461]

amazing

[@Harsh_Trip]

SO AMAZING! hoping we ca nget more content like this, would make a great series #35mm #filmnotdead

[@skatedubproductions2106]

Sick

[@erichartke4331]

I love film and wet printing is so rewarding :)

[@myoung48281]

I knew it had to be a condenser enlarger, just right for that photo.

[@terrywbreedlove]

Great video hope to see more. I have a question do you think it would have been easier to use less of a contest filter ? That upper left wall would have came in without all the burning right?

[@ChristopherBalladarez]

Grant this was awesome! I am currently taking dark room classes right now and am looking forward to buying my own enlarger. How much did your's cost if you don't mind me asking?

[@enLARGE.darkroom]

Great shot and excellent printmaking too! But 5 large sheets of paper wasted in order to get to the first good print is too much! If you use iPhone, iPod touch or iPad you might want to look at the enlarging app enLARGE available on the Apple App Store. Will save you heaps of time and paper

[@Drpftnst]

lmao, what exactly would this app do bro, this guy has his whole lifes experience in the darkroom im pretty sure he knows what hes doing

[@enLARGE.darkroom]

Robert Gonzales Yes he does know what he’s doing, because, as you say, he’s learnt from experience, in a time when there was no other way to make photographic prints, and for the diehards like him who continue to want to make their prints this way, then the enLARGE app simply lets him make all of his test and exploratory enlargements at small, cheap, quick-to-produce sizes, and then use the app to compute the exposure time needed to expose any larger enlargements. It doesn’t change the need for him to still have to make all of the same creative control decisions, it just saves time, photo paper and processing chems whilst doing it. If you ever get into darkroom enlarging you’ll discover two things: 1) it’s an intrinsically cheap, simple process that, with a little bit of know-how (partly in processing the negative first) can easily produce great looking prints and 2) it’s typically INCREDIBLY wasteful, with most darkroom operators trashing about 85% of their time and materials input (as shown in this video) and thus keeping only about 15% of it as finished work. enLARGE changes this spec to 90/10, with 10% going to trash and the remaining 90% coming through as finished work.

[@survivalreactionseven2047]

art squared

[@lucasramires5798]

first

[@aidsbot]

That was brilliant!