{"id":2203,"date":"2010-11-20T00:06:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T14:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2010-11-20T00:07:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T14:07:14","slug":"making-my-own-bw-prints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/20\/making-my-own-bw-prints\/","title":{"rendered":"Making my own B&W Prints"},"content":{"rendered":"

I managed to light seal the Laundry (not pretty… but it worked) and started playing with one of the enlargers I bought recently. I had a bit of an inkling from some reading I did ages ago about what I had to do to make prints.<\/p>\n

I didn’t really have any developer meant for prints… so I just grabbed some Rodinal and dived right in. Basically started with the lens wide open and around 0.5 to 1 seconds exposure.<\/p>\n

Because I was just experimenting, I skipped a stop bath (did a rinse though) and then straight into some fixer.<\/p>\n

Here are the results of my experimentation (photos taken with my phone of the drying prints)<\/p>\n

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\"Leah\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Contrast these with the scans of the negatives:<\/p>\n

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I managed to light seal the Laundry (not pretty… but it worked) and started playing with one of the enlargers I bought recently. 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