Darkroom Techniques

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Darkroom Techniques
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Arriving

• Turn on the warning and main light
• Turn on the fan
• Lock the door
• Stick your music on

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Film Development

• Prepare your chemicals
• Collect equipment

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Lights Out!

• Find film end
• Cut film end
• Spool film

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Fill Canister

• Place spool on column
• Place spool in container
• Close lid tightly

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Lights back on!

• Find the timer
• Know chemical times
• You can find these on the bottles.
• Add chemicals
• Developing is very time dependent,
• Stopping and fixing are less time-vital.
• Try to keep to the timings!
• Agitate

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Wash and Dry

• Wash the film
• Fill and empty the container 3 or four times.
  Your dont need to keep the lid on once you have
  fixed the film
• Dry the film
• Cut the film up and store it.
• Thats it! Your films done!

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Film processing summary

• Prepare chemicals
• Collect equipment
• Turn all lights off
• Open film canister and remove end of film
• Spool film onto film spool
• Put everything into the tank - light on
• Add chemicals for correct times - agitate
• Wash then dry the negatives

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Printing

• Arrange Chemicals
• Contact Print
• Use a contact print easel to see all of your
  negatives as positives
• Select your negative and place it in the enlarger

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The enlarger! With Contrast adjustable head and
many other Pleasing Features and modern
conveniences!
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Safety light on

• Use a print easel
• Compose and focus the print
• Change the aperture
• Put your paper in

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Expose

• Expose paper for 5 seconds
• Cover a small section
• Repeat, exposing the uncovered area until whole
  sheet exposed

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Process

• Place the print in the DEVeloper for 1 minute
• Move the print into the STOP for 30 seconds then
  to the FIX for 60
• Wash the print for 2 minutes.
• Examine under white light

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Dry the print

• Once the print is fixed it can be exposed to
  white light.
• You can then dry the print.
• Squeegy the print to remove the surface water.
• Then hang it up until its visibly dry or feed it
  to the dryer.

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Contrast

• A picture with too much or too little contrast
  can be remedied by changing the contrast grade.
• Adding magenta will increase the contrast,
  increasing the yellow will decrease the contrast.

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Low Contrast
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High Contrast
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Dodging and Burning

• If your print has sections that are either
  brighter or darker than you wish, you can burn or
  dodge them.
• Burning is where you cover all but the lighter
  part of the photograph and allow more light onto
  that part of the print.
• Dodging is the opposite, this is where you cover
  only a dark part on the print allowing less light
  to hit this part of the print and making it
  lighter.

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Printing Summary

• Prepare chemicals
• Print a contact print select a negative to
  print
• Turn on enlarger and put the negative in
• Focus and recompose the picture
• Process the print
• Test print, repeat
• Adjust contrast, repeat
• Dodge and Burn if necessary
• Dry the print

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Books

• Coote Monochrome Darkroom Practice
• Adams The Negative The Print
• Garrett Black and white photography master class

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darkroom_at_photosoc.man.ac.uk

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