What I want to be

Paul Fusco editing pictures: Picture from Magnum blog.

Nice

Mild "McGangbang" spotted in Melbourne

Beyond the daily grind...

Tri-x 400

Ektachrome 100

D50 ASP-C

Burning in

Work space

Make your own prints:

I looked up traditional darkroom printing, darkroom printing and the sorts online google and failed to find any readily available instructions on how to make your own print. So here it is-
the very robust way of doing your own silver halide prints.

1. Find a equipped darkroom
2. Chemicals
-Developer (no, you need a developer where the label reads "paper developer") as opposed
to film developer)
- Fixer ( Ilford rapid fixers fixes both film and paper and different dilutions- I use Agfa fixer)
- Stop Bath

3. Negatives
4. Photographic paper
5. Lots of time

For a full negative print fitting into a 8 x 10 Paper with slight border on both ends, a good starting point for exposure is 16 seconds @ f/5.6

Lights off, safelights on, make sure you're paper is kept somewhere safe.
The duller side of your negative should face the printing paper
The shinnier side of the Printing paper is the surface you want to expose. Use gloss paper
for maximum detail.

1.With paper kept away for now, turn on the enlarger and project the negative onto the easel.
2.Adjust enlarger height to fit the negative size onto the paper size set on the easel.
3.Focus onto grain with grain focus apparatus
4. turn enlarger light off
5. Slide paper on Easel
6. Adjust exposure at 16 seconds or whatever you please, aperture at 5.6
7. Expose
8. Timer goes on, the switches off enlarger at end of 16 seconds
9. paper goes into developer 1 min @ 1:7 dilution @ 20 degrees. You should see "stuff" materialising within the first 15-20 seconds. Any later might be an indication of underexposure, any earlier, overexposure. Prints tend to seem darker than they are under safelight conditions so bear this in mind
10. I agitate by just lifting up the ends of the tray.
11. More violent rapid agitation may increase contrast/developent
12. transfer to stop bath, repeat @ 1 min
13. transfer to fix @ 1 min
14. transfer to wash for 5 mins
15. transfer to secondary wash for whatver time. Replace primary water every 10 prints or so?
16. Dry

Enjoy

Slideshow of interesting portraits, The New Yorker