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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I just finished another one. This one took me two days to finish. There was a lot of dust and hair on the photo, which was my fault. I didn't make sure the scanner glass was clean before I started. Oops. 543 retouches later and one application crash, I think it's finally done.

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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is my current workflow that I mostly pulled from here: darktable.info/en/getting-s... If you have any pointers, I'm open to suggestions. Happy processing! 📷🎞️

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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Glad I am not the only one trying to learn how to do this using Darktable. My dad gave me a couple photos to scan and I decided to try my hand at restoring the faded color. It was also a good excuse for me to actually learn to use DT. This is what I was able to come up with.

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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I'm calling upon the #EastCoastKin collective to share your favorite art feeds in the comments. Here are just a few of the feeds I follow. There are some really fantastic artists hiding in these feeds and I am constantly looking for more. Happy Friday and go make some great art this weekend!

A screenshot of a list of art related Bluesky feeds. The feeds listed are:

East Coast Kin (Update)
Artists: Discover
Photography
Traditional Mediums
Ceramics
Painting
Printmaking
Crafts
Photography 📷
Photography 🟡
National Parks
Landscape Photography
Film Photography 🎞️
📷 Film Photography
B&W Film Photography
Analog & film photo
Large Format Feeds
Alternative/Darkroom

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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Why is this important? The Camera Obscura is how French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was able to capture "View from the Window at Le Gras", the oldest surviving photograph on a light-sensitive pewter plate, dated c. 1826-1827. After eight hours, this marks the birth of photography! 🧵 5/5

"View from the Window at Le Gras" by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. Heliograph on pewter.
c. 1826-1827

Source: https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/niepce-heliograph/

Helmut Gernsheim's 1952 retouched "View from the Window at Le Gras" by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. Heliograph on pewter.
c. 1826-1827

Source: By Joseph Nicéphore Niépce - Rebecca A. Moss, Coordinator of Visual Resources and Digital Content Library, via email. College of Liberal Arts Office of Information Technology, University of Minnesota. http://www.dcl.umn.edu, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=107219

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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Some friends and I used this opportunity to take portraits of ourselves that night. I placed my DSLR inside the camera under the lens, pointed at the back wall to capture the moment. We were a little close to the lens, so we were projected onto the ceiling. Exposure time was four minutes. 🧵 4/5

Long exposure portrait from inside the Camera Obscura.

Long exposure self-portrait from inside the Camera Obscura.

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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The smaller the aperture, the sharper but dimmer, the image is. This can result in long exposure times to capture an image, which I mention later. The variables are hard to control but that's part of the fun! 🧵 3/5

View from inside the Camera Obsucra how the pinhole lens focuses light and projects an image onto any surface.

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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

In this case, the surface is the back wall of this small room. Once the light has passed through the pinhole, the resulting image is a horizontally and vertically reversed projection of the view outside. The resulting image is often blurry depending on the size, or aperture, of the pinhole. 🧵 2/5

Demonstration from inside the Camera Obsucra how the pinhole lens focuses light and projects an image onto any surface.

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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Time for a bit of a throwback to that time in 2014 when I was in college and we built a #CameraObscura for Art Day. A thread. For those that do not know, a Camera Obscura occurs when rays of light pass through a pinhole into a dark space onto a surface. #Photography #EastCoastKin 🧵 1/5

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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Experimenting with the app, Darkr. 📷 iPhone 15 Plus Settings listed in Alt Text. #darkr #photography #blackandwhite #bnw

“Iris Leaves”

Darkr settings:
•Medium Format camera with red filter
•Ilford FP4 Plus; ISO 125
•Film frame border
•Base time 44 seconds; Paper grade 3
•Selenium toned

“Iris Leaves and Rocks”

Darkr settings:
•Medium Format camera with red filter
•Ilford FP4 Plus; ISO 125
•Film frame border
•Base time 44 seconds; Paper grade 3
•Dodge back leaves on left for -6.2 seconds
•Burn rocks in foreground for 6.2 seconds; Paper grade 3
•Selenium toned

“Lilies”

Darkr settings:
•Medium Format camera with red filter
•Ilford FP4 Plus; ISO 125
•Film frame border
•Base time 46 seconds; Paper grade 3
•Selenium toned

“Barn Peak”

Darkr settings:
•Medium Format camera
•Ilford FP4 Plus; ISO 125
•Film frame border
•Base time 40 seconds; Paper grade 3.5
•Burn sky 3.2 seconds; Paper grade 3
•Burn detailed part of barn 4.8 seconds; Paper grade 3.5
•Selenium toned

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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

If you need to be at a computer to figure this out, don't worry about getting back to me immediately. I'm patient. Do I need to adjust the lower and upper thresholds? If I hover over each one they give a different explanation of the values. I somewhat understand what it's saying but not 100%.

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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I am getting ready to use your workflow on a test image. Is this the gamut clipping tool you were talking about? I think these are the default settings. Do I need to change anything?

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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Typically my photos are very clean, controlled, and of nature/landscapes. David Lynch and Twin Peaks were my direct inspirations for shooting in such a dreamy way. I allowed myself to get a little experimental/messy and I think it was largely a success.

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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I didn’t have any equipment with me so I pulled out my phone and used the Pocket Camera on the #Darkr app to capture my friend’s special evening. It worked out. Stylistically, this is very different from my normal photography.

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Drew Stanton @drewstanton.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I have been in a creative and inspirational drought for around eight years now and have barely touched my cameras in that time. Two of my good friends got married last weekend and I felt a creative spark I haven’t felt in years.

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