1. Contact Sheets

2. Contact Sheets 2

3. Contact Sheets 3

4. Contact Sheets 4

5. Contact Sheets 5

6. Contact Sheets 7

7. Contact Sheets 8

8. Chemicals for Printing
Developer
1 min
Develops your paper so your latent image appears
Stop Bath
30 sec
Neutralizes and stops the developer
Fixer
2 mins
Removes the un-exposed chemistry so that it’s no longer light-sensitive
Water
5 mins
Rinses off the fixer from your paper

9. 1) Choosing a Negative: Check your Contact Sheet
1) Choosing a Negative: Check your Contact Sheet! Look at exposure, composition, and lighting

10. 2) Look CLOSER: Check for focus!

11. 3)Prepare your enlarger!
Set your Easel to the size you want to print
Insert your negative into negative carrier
Check the height of your enlarger head
Check your focus with the Focus Scope
Set your Aperture to f/8 or f/5.6

12. 4) Choose a filter:
FILTERS CONTROL CONTRAST – THE DEGREE OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TONES (aka: BLACKS, WHITES, AND GRAYS)

13. A High Filter (3.5-5) has a very strong difference between shadows (blacks) and highlights (whites)

14. A Low Filter (0-1.5) has a wider range of grays between shadows and highlights

15. Somewhere in between (2-3) is usually a good filter to start

16. 5) Make a Test Strip! (to figure out your exposure)

17. An exposure that’s too SHORT: No details in the highlights and no true black

18. An exposure that’s too LONG: No details in the shadows and no true white

19. A good print will have details in the highlights/shadows and have true black/white with a range of gray between.