Friday, November 5, 2010

Making a Black and White print

Dark Room
Equipment 
1)
  • Enlargers 
  • Filters 
  • Safe Lights
  • Film Processing Tank
  • Thermometers
  • Print Trays
  • Timers
  • Print Washing Tray
  • Print Tongs

Film Processing Chemicals 

2)
  • Film Developer
  • Stop Bath
  • Fixer  
  • Hypo Clearing Agent
  • Wetting Agent
  • Chemical "Life Span"
  • Chemical Disposal 

3.     First, you have to make sure that there's no light in the room where the process will occur. Than all of the chemicals are set up right, and make sure that you have everything you need. Check the temperature of the chemicals have to be at an accurate temperature. Once you have everything set up you can start the process.
Now you can load the film onto the film reel, and put the film reel into the developing tank. Depending on the temperature of your chemicals that's how long you can keep the film in the chemicals. The order of how you put your film are developer, stop bath, fixer, and than the hypo-clearing agent. Finally put your film in the water for ten minutes than remove the extra water from the film.



1. Emulsion- a composition sensitive to some or all of the actinic rays of light, consisting of one or more of the silver halides suspended in gelatin, applied in a thin layer to one surface of a film or the like.
2. Aperture- an opening, usually circular, that limits the quantity of light that can enter an instrument.
3. Masking Easel- an upright tripod for displaying something
4. Exposure- the total amount of light received by a photosensitive surface or an area of such a surface, expressed as the product of the degree of illumination and the period of illumination.
5. Safe Light- a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
6. Dodging- to shade from exposure for a period, while exposing the remainder of the print in order to lighten or eliminate the area.
7. Burning- the baking of ceramic products to develop hardness and other properties.


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