Monday, 24 October 2011

Alone in a Darkroom - First Prints

Just in case you, like me, are just starting out in the Darkroom I thought you might find this page useful.  It is a fairly simplified guide to producing a black and white print from a correctly exposed black and white negative.  Although, I would definitely add my second bullet point below to the process.  I’d also recommend reading the relevant chapter from the go to textbook for this type of thing - Langford's Basic Photography

I just had my first session in the darkroom and, truth be told, while it was enjoyable I don't see myself falling in love with it (time will tell of course so stay posted).  I'm posting about it as a way of reminding myself (and you?) about the two things I really want to take from my first session;
  1. Stop forgetting to remove the red filter as obviously the photographic paper wont react otherwise (duhhhhh, you'd think after 4 times in one session I wouldn't need reminding), and
  2. Write details (print #, filter, exposure time(s) etc) on back of every print before it goes into the developer as even with notes it can be difficult (read impossible) to keep track.
Here are a few scans (unedited) of my first days work.  Two shot at iso100 and 1 at 3200.  Can you tell which is which?




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