resurgance
9-Sep-2017, 22:52
Wow. Not sure about others, but my darkroom sessions seem to be linked to some kind of murphy's law thing.
The last printing session I had was amazing, went smoothly, great prints.
Today's effort;
- Uneven development caused by me accidentally cutting the paper too wide from roll and then cutting it quickly with scissors that I can't use on the dry side anymore while it had been partially submerged in developer. Not to mention a silly amount of dust spots caused by me trying to eliminate major newton ring issues by means of warming my negative and carrier with a hair dryer. No Newton rings?
- Second go, managed to crease emulsion on paper while cutting through carelessness - luckily it was just outside the border and under the matt.
not that it mattered, as after sorting out dust, the newton rings had come back with a vengeance! More than ever before. It was raining outside, sure that doesn't help.
- So put some other negatives under the main negative to lift the emulsion off the glass (Acros) and got rid of all dust via airbrush compressor, anti static gun and some isopropyl.
- made a fantastic print except when I had placed my homemade blades on the paper I had missed the fact that the top left corner was only 3mm away from the image! perfect print otherwise.
Negative was 6x12cm and curly, I am looking into making some glassless bottom holders for 6x12 but Ive never been able to hold negs flat without glass.
Anyway, end result was good, but was a long day.
Just wondering about the comedy/tragedy of some others darkroom sessions. When I first stared printing I was using 8x10" RC paper, so there was never a lot of time involved. Now with FB, large stuff (for me anyway) and toning, things can go pretty pear shaped at times. Im sure there are some pretty good stories out there. My worst one to date was probably ruining the emulsion by squeegy after a long toning process. Makes the prints far more valuable to me than some inkjet print thats for sure.....
The last printing session I had was amazing, went smoothly, great prints.
Today's effort;
- Uneven development caused by me accidentally cutting the paper too wide from roll and then cutting it quickly with scissors that I can't use on the dry side anymore while it had been partially submerged in developer. Not to mention a silly amount of dust spots caused by me trying to eliminate major newton ring issues by means of warming my negative and carrier with a hair dryer. No Newton rings?
- Second go, managed to crease emulsion on paper while cutting through carelessness - luckily it was just outside the border and under the matt.
not that it mattered, as after sorting out dust, the newton rings had come back with a vengeance! More than ever before. It was raining outside, sure that doesn't help.
- So put some other negatives under the main negative to lift the emulsion off the glass (Acros) and got rid of all dust via airbrush compressor, anti static gun and some isopropyl.
- made a fantastic print except when I had placed my homemade blades on the paper I had missed the fact that the top left corner was only 3mm away from the image! perfect print otherwise.
Negative was 6x12cm and curly, I am looking into making some glassless bottom holders for 6x12 but Ive never been able to hold negs flat without glass.
Anyway, end result was good, but was a long day.
Just wondering about the comedy/tragedy of some others darkroom sessions. When I first stared printing I was using 8x10" RC paper, so there was never a lot of time involved. Now with FB, large stuff (for me anyway) and toning, things can go pretty pear shaped at times. Im sure there are some pretty good stories out there. My worst one to date was probably ruining the emulsion by squeegy after a long toning process. Makes the prints far more valuable to me than some inkjet print thats for sure.....