I did some experiments in the darkroom before printing my
final images to practice the method and become comfortable in the dark room. For
my method of printing, I decided to go with printing with digital negatives. As
I came across a few problems with my use of film, I found it much more
manageable. I did the usual test
strips to know what time to expose my images, and did a few practice prints and test strips.
I then went into the dark room the next day and had a good
idea on what I was doing. I knew I had to go through the process of lightening
one part of an image so I began with this. I set the bulb to a dim light as I
previously learned that having it at its brightest only needed a second to
expose and this wasn't helpful at all. I needed more control than this so I turned down the enlarger bulb a lot. I then proceeded to carry out a test strip
with the exposure of 5 seconds.
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| As you can see from the test strip, this began to look more promising near the 20 seconds mark. So I exposed the image for 20 seconds but then used the same method as before to lighten the subject. |
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| I then began to test strip this image, again in 5 seconds. This seemed to look correctly exposed at 20 seconds so I decided to expose this image as a print, which came out perfectly. |
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| This particular test strip didn't give me the best results as there wasn't enough exposed strips on my subject matter. However around the 20 mark looked promising but maybe slightly too dark for my subject, so I decided to expose at 17 seconds and look at my print and go from there. However the print actually looked perfect from this so I kept it at 17 seconds. |
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I then did a test strip for my final print which looked well exposed 15-20 mark. 20 was too dark and 15 just wasn't dark enough. So this too was exposed at 17 seconds and I was very happy with the results.
These are the Final Images from my fugitive testimony project. Although for the final prints, they were printed in the dark room.
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