Dear All
I had my first lesson at BW printing yesterday. I have done it
before so I was interested in refreshing my ideas rather than
learning from scratch.
The lessons were:
1. Keep it simple: easy to say once you have experience, but we
started with test strips (torn-up bits of 10 x 8!) using a constant
f8 and varying the time. He used Fotospeed Oyster paper with an LPL
colour head for variable contrast.
2. Be consistent: my tutor kept it to a drill and always
developed for 2 minutes, rinsed for 10 secs, fixed for 3 minutes and
washed for 20 mins.
That was pretty well it. Oh yes ... we printed shots from my OM1
and my Fuji GS645S and he dared to suggest that I switch entirely to
MF - "just see how clean the prints are with a MF negative..." but he
didn't realise that he was talking to a Zuikoholic!
I am doing colour printing and a model shoot today; I have never used
a model nor studio lights before, so it should be interesting.
Chris
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Cambridgeshire, England.
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