Video: Fine-Tuning Prints in a Darkroom

Subtle contrast and visual elements in a photo make a good print great. Learn to make a photographic print in a darkroom in this free photography video.

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So again, I'm going to talk about the importance of taking time and looking at your images. And this is, you know, this is one of the coolest things about being in the darkroom, is that you're not handing an image to someone at a photo lab or paying someone and saying "Hey, make this for me." You're actually doing it yourself. And in a way it's you can, you have control over it and I think that that's really just one of the coolest things about doing old time traditional darkroom work. This is an image that I want to show of how, one of my students really just started to working out bringing subtle, subtle like that's the key word here, subtle. Doesn't like hit you over the head like "Oh yeah." It takes a little while. So one thing that I do and I tell my students to do, is to pin your photographs up on a wall in your house or around desk and actually take the time to look at them. And again, this is very subtle stuff. You can see the sky on this one is darker. And she wanted the darker sky with the way that this image was. And also, the contrast between this trailer here and this lizard. And you know she changed her filter around. And again, it is a very subtle, slow process of looking and getting better at being a print maker.

Fine-Tuning Prints in a Darkroom

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