I’ve been upgrading my darkroom. My entry into large format photography has placed demands which Darkroom 1.0 was unable to support. I’ve separated the wet and dry areas according to traditional darkroom design practices. The wet side is where one does the development. As I follow a hybrid analogue-digital model, the dry side hosts my computer, scanner, printer and work area for framing pictures. Same capabilities as a traditional darkroom, just different technologies. The dry area is set up, the wet side remains in progress.
To complete the wet side will require plumbing and a darkroom sink. This being more complicated extended timelines result. Finding a sink being on the critical path. So until this is complete I will use the framing area as the wet zone. Yet even with this interim state, Darkroom 1.5 improves the level of maturity of the core capabilities.
View of the darkroom in action.
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