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- the FOTOfactory Amsterdam
- Bethanienstraat 5-B
- 1012 BZ Amsterdam
- the Netherlands
- +31 (0) 20-7766766
Group size: max. 2 persons or individual
Language: English or German or Dutch
Date: any moment just call us
Location: @Amsterdam
Duration: 3 hours
Level: (Semi)Beginner (Fase I)
One time payment 2025:
€ 155,- for one person
€ 310,- for two people
*automatic payment and excl. 0% VAT
Without automatic payment + 2%
Training: no need
Application: no need
STARTING: ANY MOMENT, JUST REGISTER!
Analogue Photography in a darkroom is hot. Photography is going old school: lomography is back in fashion and analogue photography is enjoying renewed popularity. And it makes sense, because developing your own films and printing your own negatives in a darkroom feels like magic.
Black and white analogue photography can create beautiful prints with lots of shades of grey, deep blacks and wonderful highlights. Dodging and burning, masking, contrast control, all the techniques that we now know from Photoshop or Instagram, were already used by the great masters of photography but then in their own analogue darkrooms.
The FOTOfactory has a small but well-equipped darkroom, with 24x36mm or 6x6cm Black & White enlargers. The Darkroom Lounge is the place to go when you want to print from negatives. It is a step up from our Darkroom Experience where you learn the printing from your own digital images on analogue multigrade paper. But during the 3 hour Darkroom Lounge you learn also printing from negative (your own preferably! ). We provide the chemicals, enlarger, trays and tongs, easel and paper. You bring your images and together with our teacher you will create long lasting Black & White prints.We are sure you are gonna love analogue photography. The Darkroom Lounge will take place in the evening and is suited for only two students. Our lounge can be booked at any moment. You don’t have to be already an advanced darkroom printer to join, but it would be nice if you have already some experience our beter.. joined our darkroom experience earlier.
EQUIPMENT NEEDED
When you want to join our Darkroom Lounge you need to have a bit of experience with analogue printing. Also you need to bring your own analogue negatives to the Lounge. The enlargers we work with are made for 24×36 mm negatives. The membership is for one evening and the group size per evening is max. 2 people. You bring your images and together with our teacher you will create long lasting Black & White prints. So there is enough personal attention to make good analogue prints that will shine on your wall!
HOW DOES IT WORK?
You send us an e-mail or give us a (whatsapp) call, when you want to become a member of the Lounge. We will charge you a membership of 150 euro and that will give you access to one evening printing. We start at 19.30 and continu till 22.30 pm. We provide the chemicals, paper, loupes, enlarger, trays, tongs, coffee/tea and the trainer. You bring your own 35 mm B&W negatives. Of course they should be already developed. See you soon!
DARKROOM MATERIALS
To be able to print during the lounge with the chemicals we provide. The paper we use is multigrade. It will be either multigrade glossy or pearl paper. Of course it will be Back & White PE paper. Maximum size 13×18 cm will fit our developing trays. We provide also the enlarger, filters, easel, print tongs etc. Developing your films is NOT an option during this evening, so bring your small film B&W negatives. We are in the stage of organising a new B&W film developing course. See you!!
DARKROOM PROFESSIONAL COURSE
Maybe after this Lounge you even want to know more? Want to learn how your camera works? How to improve your images and even how it is to work both digital and analogue? Always wanted to work in a studio but never knew how? Join us in our upcoming 3Day intensive Darkroom Professional Course.
BASIC SUMMER PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE
The Basic Summercourse Photography is made for students from abroad, and is a contiguous 3Day Course, for anyone who is interested in photography. A great way to learn how to work with your camera and at the same time enjoying beautiful Amsterdam during the Summer. In a small group, you will learn about visual language, digital technique, studio and even the city of Amsterdam. Street walk included.
DARKROOM EXPERIENCE
We want to keep your first time in the Darkroom simple and it should be fun. So we invented a new way of analogue printing. You send us digital images, we post process them and return them. You only need to bring a mobile device with those altered image. Preferably your phone, but a tablet will also do. Start creating your own analogue experience!
ABOUT the FOTOfactory
Our Photography and Film courses are already more than 25 Years respected by our students. We helped a lot of people all over the world to start a successful professional career as photographer. International Institute of Photography the FOTOfactory is the most prestigious private educational Institute in the Netherlands, with English or Dutch spoken photography and film courses and workshops. Our students come from all over the world to study photography at different levels. Our courses are presented in a relaxed atmosphere where student involvement is encouraged, feedback is important, and the instructors are always available to answer questions. We teach digital photography, as well as analogue photography. Post-production on a computer or in the darkroom, both is optional. We provide courses or training sessions in small groups or on an individual basis. So develop yourself at the FOTOfactory! You can see all our Courses on our SHOP page
OVER the FOTOfactory Darkroom Lounge
Altijd al willen werken in een analoge donkere kamer om je eigen foto’s te printen? We merken dat er steeds meer liefhebbers van analoge fotografie en het toepassen van diverse technieken zijn. Zowel tijdens de opname maar ook tijdens het afdrukken van de foto’s. Daarnaast is het gebruik van analoge materialen zo kostbaar dat het printen onder begeleiding van een trainer kostenbesparend is. Verspilling van dure materialen wordt namelijk op deze manier verkomen. Ook kan onze trainer je veel ‘kneepjes van het vak’ leren. We hebben drie verschillende opties, twee avond workshops en een driedaagse training. Van Darkroom Experience, naar Darkroom Lounge en evt doorgroeien met de Darkroom Professional Course.
INTERVIEW
MAKOU FUJISHITA
Hello…. Can you introduce yourself? I am Japanese and staying this country for three and half years.
I am working as a fashion trend reporter and studying photography in this school now.
How long are you studying at Ff? I was joining the summer course in 2013 for a week, then I applied for the three years course. Now I am a second year student. Totally studying two and half year.
What do you like at the FF? Strong points? Bad points? I really like this school. We could study techniques of all kind of cameras including pinhole camera, view camera and of course analogue camera, all in a very professional way. And also we could study about history of the photography and as well as the theory of the it. Strong points are that we can find the way of our own photography, technical and conceptual.
Bad points… I couldn’t find it!
What kind of photographer would you like to become? I would like to become a contemporary photographer.
Did it change you to study photography? Yes, very much! My life is going to be more wealthy in so many ways.
How do you see your future? I will keep working as a fashion trend reporter, being skills what I am learning now and going to shift for contemporary photographer little by little I am imagining now.
Anything you want to add? Ff is super great school for me to study what photography is and I could learn what I want to take, sometime really difficult to express by my self, but many great teachers help me and they brash up my photography. And many friends in this school discuss about our works and could have to think many possibilities!
STUDENT WORK – IN PROGRESS
DANIEL LEWENSZTAIN
A advertisement
made by
Daniel Lewensztain
for the module Photographic Development II
(Second Year) as part of a serie advertisements.
ISO 400 – 1/60 sec – F. 4.0 – 50mm f/1.4
natural light use
photoshop use