Multi-Print

After a largely inactive few days I spent the best part of 12 hours in the darkroom today, spurred on slightly by the fact that Chris was also in the room. I had gone in with the initial intention of making many prints of a few of negatives, which I achieved, but he was experimenting with bleaching and toning which I was very interested in and resulted in me being there much longer than I expected.

Lessons were learned though, firstly I had some experimentation with correction of converging verticals by tilting the enlarger head, but soon realised that this required a very small aperture and in the case of the negative I was trying to print the base exposure was 3 minutes and some of the burning went up to 9 minutes. On reflection it was not worth the effort but nice to spend some time adjusting all the angles and know it is possible.

Secondly, and ultimately more important, I practised making many prints of one negative. It is not as exciting as dedicating yourself to one print but I felt I began to get a sense of craft by repeating the same process over and over again.