{"id":2245,"date":"2010-12-21T13:49:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T03:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2010-12-21T13:49:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T03:49:47","slug":"making-bw-prints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/making-bw-prints\/","title":{"rendered":"Making B&#038;W Prints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Hong Kong street by macplusg3, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stewartsmith\/5278728851\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5250\/5278728851_ae0e7b6182.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"Hong Kong street\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting better at making prints, and starting to understand how all the bits fit together properly. I&#8217;m finding myself disappointed that I&#8217;ve shot colour sometimes :)<\/p>\n<p>The light-sealing of the darkroom (also known as laundry (also known as brewery)) is not exactly pretty&#8230; but it does work:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_20101221_144756.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2246\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/making-bw-prints\/img_20101221_144756\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_20101221_144756.jpg?fit=1944%2C2592&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1944,2592\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Nexus One&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1292942876&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.31&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_20101221_144756\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_20101221_144756.jpg?fit=584%2C779&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2246\" title=\"IMG_20101221_144756\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_20101221_144756-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_20101221_144756.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_20101221_144756.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_20101221_144756.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting better at making prints, and starting to understand how all the bits fit together properly. I&#8217;m finding myself disappointed that I&#8217;ve shot colour sometimes :) The light-sealing of the darkroom (also known as laundry (also known as brewery)) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/making-bw-prints\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[34,394,176,200,393],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-bw","tag-darkroom","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-print"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-Ad","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2203,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/20\/making-my-own-bw-prints\/","url_meta":{"origin":2245,"position":0},"title":"Making my own B&#038;W Prints","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2010-11-20","format":false,"excerpt":"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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