3 Books on Printing by Tim Rudman

@sofaking19999 , Thanks for the "like", I noted the link was expired so it is now refreshed.

 

Thank you, reminds me of the time I spent on darkroom printing. Lots of clothes trashed with satins from chemicals hehehe

 

@jmgcg1 , My buddy spent so much time with silver, he developed an allergy and then moved on to platinum printing. Now at in his 70s, he says that he is developing a similar allergy, which luckily will save him money.

 

Thankfully, I never had allergies to silver or the chemicals used in developing, but I had a classmate who couldn't put her hands in the developing tanks
to take out the prints. After a week of classes, she noticed that the developer was causing sores on her fingers. We would go there to put the paper in, and she would shake the developing tanks
I miss those days. There was more interaction between people. We were all in the darkroom developing film or paper. Now we're alone in front of a screen.

 

@jmgcg1 I must be getting old. I find the use of AI to "create" images, the many books on how to use prompts, etc. somehow not photography. I was talking with my buddy mentioned above who apprenticed under Ansel just before his passing, and he would share the effort he made to scout a sight, the planning and waiting for the right light and the platinum lost in unsatisfactory print attempts. Even with the new digital cameras, I feel I am cheating. I fool myself with the optical viewfinder and analog dials of the FF X100.

PS.... "Interaction with people" in the process of making a photograph. Hooray!

 

We don't get old, we just level up, more lives, more skills, and better weapons, hahaha.

I'm 60, and I still play PlayStation and enjoy things like a kid.

At the school where I studied photography, we read the three books by Ansel Adams, and I had the pleasure of calibrating two films with the zone system. One of my teachers had a densitometer, and I measured the film. I did two calibrations, one for an enlarger with hard light and another for a diffuser, just as Ansel and It was fun.
Did I use ZS like Ansel and Fred....nop never but It's a great system to teach people how to read the light

PS: For those who don't know, the zone system was not developed exclusively by Ansel Adams; there was another person, Fred Archer, just as it wasn't only Neil Armstrong who went to the moon.