Bullock,Wynn

To increase the flexibility of MQ and PQ print-developing formulas, keep a bottle of carbonate solution and a bottle of 10% bromide on your darkroom shelf. I learned this trick from photographer Edna Bullock, who learned it from her husband, Wynn Bullock. Wynn used this technique with Ethol LPD paper developer. 

Wynn Bullock and the Zone System as Told by Edna Bullock... 

Wynn Bullock was a contemporary and good friend of Ansel Adams. While Wynn was renowned for his print quality, he rarely used a light meter and when he did it was in the most rudimentary fashion—aim at the subject and take a reading. Ansel was often seen coercing Wynn to learn the Zone System. Finally, Wynn acquiesced and purchased a spot meter and densitometer. Ansel told him what to do, and Wynn began testing his materials. 

Brett Weston, one of the greatest practitioners of the West Coast School of Photography, pioneered by his father, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, and Imogen Cunningham, destroyed almost seventy years worth of negatives on his eightieth birthday because he refused to allow anyone else to print his work. Why To paraphrase Brett, there may be someone who could print his work better, but then it wouldn t be his. 

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