Wednesday 1st may
Today I went to Vernon Street to take part in the experimental dark room workshop which I requested.
I did shoot a roll of black and white film to use however I didn’t realise it had to be developed into negatives so I had to use one of Phoebes old negatives:
Spraying and brushing developer onto paper:
- Subject light sensitive paper to the negative underneath the enlarger
- Spray or brush developer onto paper and wait for normal developing time (1min 30 secs)
- Put paper into the stop chemical
- Put paper into fix for 2 miniutes
Solarisation:
- Subject paper to negative under enlarger
- Put paper into developer until you just start seeing the image show
- Take paper out and place image side down into empty tray
- quickly flash the paper to light source
- put straight back into developer for normal amount of time
- paper into stop
- Paper into Fix for 2 minutes
(only very slight solarisation on my first try)
I then experimented with spraying and brushing the developer onto the paper and then solarising it:
I really enjoyed this workshop and would like to continue experimenting within my own time. I think next year I would love to shoot some black and white dog photos and try using the spray or brush techniques with these.
