From the course: Black-and-White Darkroom: Printing Techniques

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Split-filter work print

Split-filter work print

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Split-filter work print

- Okay, so after examining our tests, we're gonna combine the two exposures, on a single sheet of paper in order to generate our work print. So, I'm getting out a new sheet of paper, putting it in the enlarger, in the easel actually. It's not going in the enlarger. There's just not room for it in there. I have the number five filter is still in there. It doesn't matter what order you do this in. And, remember, we decided we were going to expose the number five for six seconds. So, I'm going to reset my timer to six seconds, and I'm going to make that exposure. Then, once that's done, I'm going to very gently open this, remove that filter, slide in the double zero. It's important to be gentle here because if you jar the enlarger, you could alter the alignment slightly, and the two exposures would be out of register, and you'd get like a weird ghost image. It's particularly important to think about this if you're working in a group darkroom situation, say you're in a school darkroom…

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