Step Into My Lab...

Well it's not actually my lab, but the darkroom downstairs at Stills on Cockburn street. My first session of 3 hours mostly involved getting to work through the process of printing from start to finish, never having done it before. I managed a few test prints but I didn't take a pencil or pen in with me so I wasn't able to do much note taking or work towards producing a decent print. Having actual physical experience of the process rather than just information from books will help loads next time though.

Even though my prints aren't exposed and developed exactly right the quality is miles better than digital prints I have of my pictures, the gradation of the tones and lack of any discernable image breakup, even under magnification is quite exciting, I can't wait till I can print some large images properly.