Dark Room Session 4

Today's session we are going to enlarge our negatives on to photographic glossy paper and develop black and white prints.

Chemistry is the same as contact prints, temperature at 20 degrees, develop for one minute, stop for one minute and fix for five minutes.

The enlarger shines light though the negative and onto the photographic paper, you can change the amount of light which makes the negative either dark or brighter and you can also focus the image. Same again as the contact sheet, Immolation side down of the negative and Immolation side up on the paper (Immolation to immolation) Before you get your photographic paper out and print, you first set it up by turning the light on continuously and focus your image (use scope to check the grains so its in focus) then you turn it off and place your paper in the same spot to print your image.

The enlarger has leavers at the side to stop light leaking out and going on the base board. It has grades as well, the higher the number the more contrast it is, the lower the number the less contrast the print is.

Below is my test strip and prints.

This is one of the prints from the negatives. This print has an exposure of 12 seconds.

This is my test strip. You can see slightly where the lines are of different exposure.