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MY LAB

As explained in my working process, I am rather allergic to chemistry and its hazardous manipulations. My films are developed and scanned by a professional lab, and I then “develop” the Tiff HD files with dedicated software.

Having no need for the power of market leaders, I turned to Darktable™, free software developed by enthusiasts and photographers, which benefits from serious monitoring, with regular improvements and corrections, and a very active user community.

Although perhaps less intuitive than others, it is logical and very efficient, non-destructive and has catalog management that meets my needs, namely essentially:

• • • Cleaning the scan;
    • Finalization of the framing;
    • Strengthening contrasts;
    • Processing of gray scales or colors;
    • Possible application of a toning.

I use the software in the same way for black and white film or digital color, except obviously additional work on colors for tones of blue.

To find out more about this tool : www.darktable.fr

The final image is exported by the software, then sent to the service provider who makes the prints.

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