How to make a spare room light tight
Wanting to change a spare room or spare bathroom in your house into a darkroom for processing photos? Preparing the room to make it completely closed off with light will be your first step, here's how.
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Things You'll Need
- Aluminum foil
- Black masking tape
- Black out shade (if there are windows)
Instructions
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Once you choose the desired room begin by covering any windows with aluminum foil and secure it with black masking tape.
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Next, install a blackout shade over the covered window.
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Then place black masking tape all along the edges of the doorway.
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Finally, hang another larger blackout shade in front of the door or doorway and make sure it extends all the way to the floor and past the doorway's sides.
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Tips & Warnings
The best choice of rooms would be a bathroom, they usually do not have windows and they have running water which will come in very handy.
Any light leakage will put your film and photographic paper at risk. Be sure to test your darkroom by exposing film or photographic paper in the darkroom then develop it to see if its been fogged by a light source.
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Comments
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Mar 21, 2009
Aluminum foil, I would have never even thought of that. Good tips, even just for darkening a room. I don't need a dark room, I just can't sleep if there's any light.
