Photography: Kodak Bromesco Simulation
When my Dad was about the age that I am now we bought a Gnome Beta II enlarger with a moderately good lens and set about processing our own films and making prints.
Truth be told it was far easier to process films at Blandford Grammar School’s Camera Club than at home because the school had a completely light tight darkroom in which we could load the tanks.
There was always an unholy queue for the enlarger though and so being able to black out the kitchen and print at home was a boon.
At school I discovered this paper manufactured by Kodak called Bromesco. It gave prints a kind of ‘arty’ look and for a while I used it for everything, often images that would have been better suited to normal greyscale papers.
Bromesco was a heavy fibre paper that produced a mildly sepia image. If developed in over-warm developer the paper itself seemed to turn a yellowish creamy colour.
I have emulated what it looked like below using Bibble Labs Bibble Pro RAW Convertor and Andy and Sadie plug-ins.
Bibble Pro Simulation of Kodak Bromesco
November 12th, 2007 at 8:09 am
[...] b) Grabbed the E-400, fitted the 11-22 zoom, selected 1600 ISO, grabbed the shot and uploaded it into Photoshop® for resizing in less than the time it takes to say Gnome Beta II Enlarger? [...]
January 12th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
[...] paper colour is ivory, which may not be to everyone’s taste, but I like it. It reminds me of Kodak Bromesco, a chemical photo paper I fell in love with during my [...]