Sally Stone - Darkroom - Surrealisim

Dark Room recap; Ensure hands are clean, ensure negatives are clean, set masking frame to appropriate size, leave 1/4 gap around all sides for example a 7" x 5" would be 6 1/2" x 4 1/2". Then load your negative in to the film career shiny side up! 0 on all the dials magenta, scan and yellow, set the F to the brightest F, then use the focus finder to focus, then carefully turn F down 2 steps, carry out a test strip to determine the exposure by doing 2 seconds all over and then using the card to cover up horizontally or vertically and do this till your test strip is all done.

Reasons for making a test strip: to save money on photographic paper, to determine the exposure time therefore saves you a lot of time as you do it all on one piece of paper.

Here is my original picture a nice use of tonal range although if i was to do it again I would make sure that the background had a different exposure time!

Here Man Ray has inspired me with the objects placed in my picture. the use of juxtaposition here makes the image much more interesting.

1. Firstly chose your negative that you want to print (make sure it is clean, no scratches and no dust on it)
2. Hold the negatives so you can read the numbers, then turn the negative round (not over) so the number is furthest away from you. 
3. Place your negative in the film carrier in to place. 
4. With a lens on full aperture, turn on the enlarger. Place a normal piece of paper on the easel and use the focus finder to focus the image (use the focus on the enlarger to focus the image).
5. Change the aperture back to f8 to increase the sharpness of the image.
6. If the picture looks flat increase the amount of magenta on the enlarger. 
7. Produce a test strip (3 seconds for light photos & 5 seconds for dark photos), develop the test strip as normal.
8. Then I placed my objects on top of my photo and turn on the enlarger for 6 seconds.