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Printing Small vs. Large in Photography

Developing large prints in the darkroom gets expensive with paper and chemicals. Learn to choose print size when developing photographic prints in a darkroom in this free photography video.

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Now once you begin printing in the darkroom, there's a whole world of opportunities that you can make work in. One of the first issues that I had was, "Well, how big do I need to make my photographs"? And I really struggled with it, because there were times where I really liked making these small 5x7 images. But then I just felt they were too small, and I couldn't see the detail well enough, and then I wanted to go on and start making 8x10 images. And then there came a point where I wanted to make even larger images, so this is 2 1/4 negative on 11x14 paper. And then I went 16x20, and then I started to not have very much money after a while. The higher you go up in paper size, the more expensive it's going to get between even your paper and how much chemistry you use. So, luckily I put the brakes on it pretty quickly, and I have a couple of different methods for deciding what size a print should be that I'm going to go over with you.

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Printing Small vs. Large in Photography

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