In this induction I was introduced to black and white printing with a very useful information and techniques. Firstly we made a contact sheet from my medium format negatives. It's very helpful to check them. Then I choose one negative and done first test strip on aperture F8 with a various exposure time (5s;10s;15s and 20s)
After examining the test strip I was not happy with exposure so I increased the aperture to F11 and done another test:
In this strip 5s exposure was very light and 10s too dark, thats mean happy medium should be between these exposures. So I've choose exposure time 7s and done a full print:
After that we was introduced to grading to correct certain tones within the image. To get best result I increased everything one step and done test strip with aperture F16 and exposure time 14s, but 4s did on grade 0 and other 10s on grade 2. That's mean I will subdue the highlights in the background:
Now I was happy with tones in the background but I've lost a contrast on extinguisher. To increase it I added another 5s on grade 5 and this is what I've got:
This is was too dark. Now I was confidence to print final image just with less time on grade 5.
Final Print: F16; Grade 0 - 4s; Grade 2 - 10s and Grade 5 3s.
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