From the course: Analog Photography: Shooting & Processing Black-and-White Film

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Creating a test print

Creating a test print

From the course: Analog Photography: Shooting & Processing Black-and-White Film

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Creating a test print

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Now that we're working under the safe lights, I've been able to see the image projected on my easel here and make the final adjustment of the height of the enlarger head, determining the size of the print and focus the image in. My next step is to close the lens down two stops, to it's sharpest point and then I'm going to switch the timer over to it's time function rather than focus function, so we've gone dark here. And we're going to make two test prints that we'll use to determine the proper level of contrast in our image. I'm going to take a piece of the photo paper, and I've torn it in half. You'll probably want to make smaller test, test strips just because of cost factors, but I'm making large ones just because they're going to be easier for you to see. And I looked at the negative, and in testing for low-contrast or highlight values I want to look in the part of the frame that has the highest, the brightest points, which is in the sky where all the clouds are. Taking the…

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