Using Photo Paper in a Darkroom

Video Transcript

"So after my easel is set up, the next step is going to be taking my photographic paper out of the box and getting ready to print. Now, again, because we're filming in light, I'm not going to open up my paper. But there is a few different ways that I print. And this is just my box of 5 X 7 paper. There are some days where I just open it up from the box and I put it in my easel but if you do it that way, you want to remember that you close your paper box. I've had some bad experiences where I was in a rush, my head wasn't in the game, and I left my paper box open. I turned the white light on to look at a print and pretty much ruined a couple hundred dollars worth of paper. So, not a good day. Once you do that the first time, you probably will never do it again. So, again, you really want to be careful with that. The other way is a lot of darkrooms have just a paper sage and that's what this is. A great way to print. You open up the safe and you put your paper in and then you just close it as you go along. You know, I like both. Depending on what size paper or how much I have to print each day. But once I get my paper out, again to recap, I slide it in my easel and I get ready to make my test print."