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#2-5041, 1996. © 2008 Henry Gilpin. All rights reserved. Courtesy of the artist. Printing Methods and Techniques 87
Exposure and Developing Technique for Photographic Printmaking Rod Dresser Most black and white photographers are familiar with the axiom for producing negatives— expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights. Why is it such a leap of faith that there is not a complementary process in printmaking? I submit there is, and it is equally valid. Note that there are two distinct steps in negative creation—expose and develop. The same distinction applies to printmaking—exposure and contrast control. Thus, our axiom for printmaking is expose (exposure time) for the highlights and contrast control (VC fi lters or paper grade selection) for the shadow areas. Here are the steps to accomplish the most effi cient and best print results for printing on variable contrast paper: 1. Examine your negative and make a fair judgment as to its contrast. If it appears to be high in contrast use a low-contrast fi lter (1, 1 1/2, 2), and if it appears to be lacking contrast use a higher grade fi lter (3, 3 1/2, 4). If you are unsure start with a 2 1/2 fi lter. 2. Set up the negative in the carrier and adjust the enlarger to project the desired size on the easel. 3. With unexposed paper in the easel run a test strip using three- to fi ve-second intervals. It is only necessary to make the strips about 1 1/2 to 2 inches wide. 4. Develop, stop, and fi x the test strip for your normal paper development time. 5. Rinse the test strip and examine it under a 75-watt fl ood lamp about four feet away. (This approximates normal museum/gallery lighting.) 6. Very carefully select the test strip that indicates the highlights that appear as you want them in your fi nal print. As an example, clouds that have full detail but are brilliant. Be sure that you have a strip that is too light and one that is too dark on either side of your chosen strip. If not, you may be missing a time that is just right. 7. Calculate the optimum time from the selected strip and make this your base exposure time. An example is if you chose the fourth strip counting from the lightest strip and the exposure times were four seconds for each strip your base exposure time is 16 seconds. 8. Make a full print for the base exposure time. 9. Develop, stop, fi x, and rinse the print. 10. Carefully examine the print under the inspection light and validate the highlights. If they are too light, increase the exposure time. If they are too dark, decrease the exposure time. 11. Keep making prints while changing exposure time until you have the highlights perfect. Note that I have not mentioned the shadow areas. They are to be ignored until the exposure time is properly obtained. 13. When you have achieved the correct exposure time look at the shadow areas. If they are too dark the contrast is too high. If they are fl at (too grey) the contrast is too low. 14. Adjust the contrast by changing fi lters and reprint. You will have to adjust the exposure time due to the change in fi lter density. This requires that you run new test strip at the new contrast. 15. This may necessitate a number of prints to fi nalize the perfect exposure time and contrast. Just remember, make only one adjustment at a time. If you modify both time and contrast and you notice a change you may not know which adjustment caused it to occur. Be very patient and don’t be afraid to use a lot of paper and chemicals. The perfect print is worth it. The last and really subtle process that I use I call the Darkroom Dance. Make small changes in developing time (no more than 15 to 30 seconds) with equally small exposure times (fractions of seconds). As an example, increase the developing time 30 seconds to get a smidgen of contrast while taking off a half-second of exposure time to compensate for the effect the developer has on the highlights. The opposite can be done to decrease the contrast. I know that I admonished you not to make two changes at once but these are subtle and only done when you are near the perfect print.
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The Darkroom Cookbook
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Dedication This book is dedicated t
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Table of Contents PREFACE ix ACKNOW
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Preface The Darkroom Cookbook is ba
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Preface xi Which brings us to the q
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Acknowledgments There are two husba
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Introduction Today everybody seems
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Introduction xvii coating your own
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Contributing Photographers Bruce Ba
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Contributing Photographers xxi Gord
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Contributing Photographers xxiii Jo
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List of Formulas Many of the formul
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Push-Processing Formulas 230 47. Di
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Amidol Paper Developer 261 105. Ami
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Selenium Toners 294 162. Dassonvill
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Planning a Darkroom Art does not de
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Planning a Darkroom 3 Core® availa
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Planning a Darkroom 5 available as
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Placement of Equipment and Workfl o
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Planning a Darkroom 9 Floors call f
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Planning a Darkroom 11 for modern e
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How Safe Is Your Safelight? Richard
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Equipment People are under the illu
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Equipment 17 customary models. It i
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Developers One developing agent is
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Developers 21 quantity of metol to
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Developers 23 pH Scale The pH scale
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Developers 25 Anhydrous, having no
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Potassium Iodide Developers 27 Alth
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Ascorbic Acid: Developing Agent or
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Developers 31 Alicia De Larocha, so
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Film Development It is the photogra
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Film Development 35 ● Conventiona
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Page 88 and 89: Monobath Film Developing 55 possibl
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Page 116 and 117: Manipulating Exposure and Developme
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Page 130 and 131: Rescuing Thin Shadows Saïd Nuseibe
Page 136 and 137: Stop Baths and Fixers Surely, it is
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Page 142 and 143: Toning Prints There is a road from
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Page 148 and 149: Toning Prints 115 The sepia/sulfi d
Page 150 and 151: Multiple Toning Toning Prints 117 I
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PYRO AND DEVELOPMENT BY INSPECTION
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leak light. What is important is th
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Procedure for Reversal Processing R
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Reversal Processing and Enlarged Ne
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Procedure for Making an Enlarged Ne
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Printing Out Processes You must alw
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Printing Out Processes 149 Caution:
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Printing Out Processes 151 over the
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Printing Out Processes 153 Sleeples
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Printing Out Processes 155 Add the
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Printing Out Processes 157 Camera O
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Safety in Handling Photographic Che
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Safety in Handling Photographic Che
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Chemicals Photography, in the fi na
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Chemicals 165 In this 3rd edition o
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Chemicals 167 ethylenediaminetetraa
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Pharmacopoeia The artist lives to e
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Pharmacopoeia 171 Glacial acetic ac
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Pharmacopoeia 173 Uses: Preservativ
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Pharmacopoeia 175 ALUM, POTASSIUM S
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Pharmacopoeia 177 AMMONIUM THIOSULF
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BROMIDE (see Potassium bromide) Pha
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Appearance: Greenish crystalline sc
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HYPO (see Sodium Thiosulfate) Pharm
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Pharmacopoeia 185 working. Tropical
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Pharmacopoeia 187 Uses: To precipit
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Pharmacopoeia 189 Uses: As a preser
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SODA (see Sodium carbonate) Pharmac
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Pharmacopoeia 193 Notes: Caustic al
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Pharmacopoeia 195 SODIUM SULFITE Sy
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Proofi ng for Maximum Black The cam
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Archival Print Procedure Appendix 1
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Archival Print Procedure 201 7. At
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Formulas FILM DEVELOPERS Developmen
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SOLUTION B Water at 110F/43C, 750.0
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SOLUTION B Water at 110F/43C, 750.0
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SOLUTION B Formulas 209 Water at 90
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Dilution B Distilled water at 125F/
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4 minutes: water without agitation.
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Metol, 3.0 g Sodium sulfi te, 45.0
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Borax, granular, 7.0 g Boric acid,
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Formulas 219 Use as you would XTOL.
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SOLUTION A Water at 125F/52C, 750.0
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SOLUTION A Water at 125F/52C, 750.0
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Stock Solution B Water at 125F/52C,
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Formulas 227 Sodium hydroxide, 17.6
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FORMULA #45 Keelan’s Monobath (H.
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The development times at 68F/20C ar
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Pyro, 28.0 g Sodium sulfi te, 100.0
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Formulas 235 NOTE 1: To help preser
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SOLUTION B Distilled water, 750.0 m
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Sodium sulfi te, 90.0 g Water to ma
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Metol, 12.0 g Sodium sulfi te, 90.0
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Developing time and procedures are
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FORMULA #69 Blue-Black Developer Fo
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Formulas 247 Benzotriazole, 0.2 g G
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FORMULA #78 Gevaert G.253 Soft-Port
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Hydroquinone, 10.0 g Water to make
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Sodium carbonate, monohydrate, 138.
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Sodium sulfi te, 23.0 g *Potassium
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Formulas 257 and then processed fol
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Normal exposure should be determine
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Pyro, 4.4 g Sodium carbonate, monoh
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FORMULA #108 Amidol Teaspoon Formul
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Amidol, 16.0 g 10% potassium bromid
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Formulas 267 Add a suffi cient amou
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FORMULA #123 Acid Hypo (J. Ghislain
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Formulas 271 When the above is thor
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Formulas 273 FILM: Film should be c
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TONERS Formulas 275 ● Different p
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Formulas 277 Add 16 drops of concen
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With stirring add: Thiourea, 1.0 g
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Formulas 281 This solution should b
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SOLUTION A *Potassium bichromate, 5
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Prepare the bleaching bath as follo
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Formulas 287 Using the Toner: Print
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*Glacial acetic acid, 5.0 ml Water
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Formulas 291 the solubility of the
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FORMULA #158 Kodak GP-2 (Thanks to
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Formulas 295 Dissolve the sodium su
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Formulas 297 As with Kodak Rapid Se
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Formulas 299 After treatment in the
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FORMULA #169 Flattening Reducer For
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Formulas 303 To use, take 2 parts o
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NEGATIVE INTENSIFIERS FORMULA #176
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STOCK SOLUTION #4 Metol, 6.5 g Sodi
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Formulas 309 Add 30.0 ml of Solutio
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Keep hands in Solution A for a few
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Distilled water, 180.0 ml Potassium
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FORMULA #194 Kodak SH-5 Formulas 31
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FORMULA #197 Kodak TC-3 Stain Remov
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Formulas 319 Development time is 8-
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Sodium metabisulfi te, 10.0 g Boric
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Conversion Tables DIRECT EQUIVALENT
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Direct equivalents (Continued) Conv
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0.7 � 10 0.8 � 11.7 0.9 � 13
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225 ml � 7.2 fl oz 250 ml � 8 f
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Sodium Carbonate Conversion Table C
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Conversion Tables 333 always possib
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TABLE 5 Film Development Temperatur
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Material Sources 337 RH Designs (St
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Azo Forum, www.michaelandpaula.com/
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Bibliography 341 James, T.H. The Th
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Index A ABC Pyro formula, 231-232,
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C Cabinets, darkroom planning, 9 Ca
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fi ne-grain, 44, 211-214 general-pu
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Filters and safelights, 10-11 in th
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In-cassette processing developing,
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Panchromatic paper, and safelights,
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and development by inspection, 137
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Strong ammonium thiosulfate reducer
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Weston amidol developers, formulas,
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