Fantastic photos wombat, really nice use (+brave) of light and contrast.
mechanical vandal, nice blagging work! LPL7700 is a very good enlarger, I got a 6700 and as much kit from a college darkroom facility (other enlargers were spoken for but everything else up for grabs) for £20 and some help clearing up the place (an afternoon & evening basically). But only got a 35mm slide plate for it, been looking for a 6x6, 6x7, 6x9 and a proper 35 neg plate but they are pretty rare to be found on their own. thinking I Might just buy an ebay LPL for its plates then put the remainder on freecycle, let someone else find their own plates :P
You'll soon find yourself needing more and more space in darkroom, seen a book called something liek the 'minimal darkroom' which would be worth a read ;)
give caffenol a whirl, I wouldn't use it for important prints as I have no idea how good it is with coping with UV etc, but good fun and can be a cheap print dev :D
Fantastic photos wombat, really nice use (+brave) of light and contrast.
mechanical vandal, nice blagging work! LPL7700 is a very good enlarger, I got a 6700 and as much kit from a college darkroom facility (other enlargers were spoken for but everything else up for grabs) for £20 and some help clearing up the place (an afternoon & evening basically). But only got a 35mm slide plate for it, been looking for a 6x6, 6x7, 6x9 and a proper 35 neg plate but they are pretty rare to be found on their own. thinking I Might just buy an ebay LPL for its plates then put the remainder on freecycle, let someone else find their own plates :P
You'll soon find yourself needing more and more space in darkroom, seen a book called something liek the 'minimal darkroom' which would be worth a read ;)
give caffenol a whirl, I wouldn't use it for important prints as I have no idea how good it is with coping with UV etc, but good fun and can be a cheap print dev :D