The inspiration for my style of work comes from Ansel Adams (an American landscape photographer), Walter Poucher (an English landscape photographer) and several of my colleagues who used to work at Ilford.
The inspiration for taking landscapes comes from living in, or close to, the rural landscape all of my life.
A video and illustrated article covering 6 different enlargers for printing black and white negatives on Ilford Multigrade variable contrast papers.
making videos for YouTube and www.DarkroomDave.com
This tutorial explains how to use Ilford Multigrade under the lens filters for split grade printing the Ilford way.
I have pulled together a short talk of about 18 minutes to show a range of things that are possible in the darkroom given a bit of time, patience and practice.
Process Times for Ilford films FP4+, SFX and Delta 400
It was a pleasant surprise to get an email from photo journalist Damien Demolder asking if I would like him to do a 6 page article on me for Amateur Photographer magazine in the UK. I had previously met Damien for chats a couple of times at the Focus on Imaging exhibition at the NEC […]
I changed my display yesterday in Gallery in the Gardens in Pavilion Gardens Buxton. Several new hand-printed darkroom silver gelatin pictures as well as lots of small mounted darkroom prints at £5 and £15. I’m still being very cautious because of Covid-19 so it’s been a long time since it was last updated, it was […]
I have pulled together a new gallery web page for the trek I did from Glasgow to Cape Wrath over 3 Summers 2003-2005 with friends. Lots of black and white photos and maps of the route. Here’s the link: https://www.davebutcher.co.uk/glasgow-to-cape-wrath-trek-including-west-highland-way/https://www.davebutcher.co.uk/glasgow-to-cape-wrath-trek-including-west-highland-way/
I have replaced the old web pages for the ski mountaineering trips that I did in the 1990’s. The structure is different, including new gallery layouts with proper captions for each picture. There are also quite a few new black and white photos. I also carried a small 35mm compact film camera for all but […]
I have replaced the old web page for the 6 day Bernese Oberland ski mountaineering trip that I completed in 1995. We had bad weather for several days but overall it was a good trip for photography. I changed the layout and added lots of new photos, both black and white and colour. The colour […]
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