Wednesday, September 12, 2007

From the darkroom



Dont have any new pics for now so lets get into a print i made last night. Recently i have noticed im actually more skilled in darkroom than with photoshop and upgrading my enlarger to Durst M700 with Compulux timer/calculator has really brought working in darkroom to a new level. Lets see how this print was made.
1. First base exposure, F22, 8 seconds with multigrade filter no. 5 to bring out the building and details of the forest. This negative was rather dark, allmost under exposed couse i didnt want to burn the skies when i took it.
2. Second base exposure, 4 seconds of filter no. 00 to get the details of the river out and to make the sky visible, even though this wasnt enough but more of no. 00 to the whole picture would have made the forest completely dark.
3. There was a white spot (sun and foaming water) in the river so i masked everything else and gave this spot 15 seconds of no. 00.
4. Sky was still too white so now masking everything else but the sky and giving it 10 seconds of no. 00.

Priting this negative took me about 2 hours.