The Bristol Folk House is currently renovating and building a new darkroom space for 2023.
This course is suitable for DSLR, Mirrorless, Compact System or Bridge Cameras only. Your friendly tutor will support you to use your digital camera, making sense of the camera controls and menus. Yo ...
Starts: Fri 10 January 2025, at 10:00
6 Week Course
Course Code: BA35
Learn how to make stunning light sensitive prints using silver gelatine darkroom paper. Discover how darkroom paper works and experiment with using analogue and digital technology to make your own uni ...
Starts: Sat 25 January 2025, at 10:00
1 Day Course
Course Code: SA30
Caffenol is a black and white film developer whose active ingredient is caffeine. You will mix a film developer from easy to obtain household chemicals, including instant coffee, and use it to develop ...
Starts: Sat 01 February 2025, at 10:00
1 Day Course
Course Code: SA31
In this hands-on, beginner-friendly workshop, you will learn to create a beautiful Valentines card using Procreate on the iPad. We will cover fundamental digital drawing techniques, layering, and tex ...
Starts: Sat 01 February 2025, at 10:00
1 Day Course
Course Code: SA14
This workshop is suitable for DSLR, Mirrorless and Compact System Cameras only. If you have some prior knowledge of your camera controls or have enjoyed any of Lee's Digital_x000D_ Photography cours ...
Starts: Sun 02 February 2025, at 10:00
1 Day Course
Course Code: SA32
Learn how to use a 5x4 large format camera. The negatives are 5x4 inches (approx 12.5x10cm) and give very high quality analogue photographs, which can be printed in the Folk House darkroom. The works ...
Starts: Sun 02 February 2025, at 10:00
1 Day Course
Course Code: SA33
Cyanotype is an alternative photographic printing process dating back to the 1800s that produces blue prints, typically using coated paper and light. In this workshop, we will be printing our cyanotyp ...
Starts: Sat 08 February 2025, at 10:00
1 Day Course
Course Code: SA50
PHOTOGRAPH A STORY. Life is full of stories, not just dates in a diary. Our life story, our families, our communities, the local park, the woodland, even derelict land. In this taster session we wil ...
Starts: Sun 09 February 2025, at 10:00
1 Day Course
Course Code: SA34
Find out how to use plants to make photographic images in this experimental workshop. This style of printmaking is an excellent lesson in slowing down, how to be more eco conscious when making images, ...
Starts: Sat 15 February 2025, at 09:30
1 Day Course
Course Code: SA35
Using vitamin C tablets and washing soda, you will learn how to make your very own light sensitive chemistry. This can then be applied on to light sensitive materials such as 35mm film to create uniqu ...
Starts: Sat 15 February 2025, at 13:30
1 Day Course
Course Code: SA36
The Bristol Folk House has a brand new, purpose built wet-based photography facility.
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