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hi all, first post!
So, I had an exciting day in the darkroom yesterday. I'm printing tmy and 400 fomapan both developed with 1:50 rodinal.
I get into the darkroom, and start printing. I'm split developing in dektol 1:1 and selectol 1:2. At first I was developing for 4 min in the dektol and 2 min in the selectol. I couldn't figure out why the paper was so stained, I know that emaks/fotokima is a warm paper, but it was SO warm that the paper looked like there was a major flaw in my processing.
After dumping a jug of dektol, and going through each variable, i came to the conclusion that the reason my prints were so stained was because overdevelopment made a warmer print, in my case so warm I thought there was a physical defect.
After adjustment, I found that I want my development time somewhere in the neighborhood of four minutes total instead of six. Development times near two minutes gave me a cool print, and times upward of five minutes were too warm for this project. Three minutes in Dektol 1:1 and one minute in selectol 1:2 seemed to be perfect for a three or four minute selenium 1:20 toning.
I feel like I'm beginning to see the print now, I'm ready to reshoot for the prints. I had initially just begun shooting [portraits], and I spent yesterday in the darkroom trying to resolve a print. Now that I have a print worked out that I like, I can't wait to get back in the studio and put it all together.!
So, I had an exciting day in the darkroom yesterday. I'm printing tmy and 400 fomapan both developed with 1:50 rodinal.
I get into the darkroom, and start printing. I'm split developing in dektol 1:1 and selectol 1:2. At first I was developing for 4 min in the dektol and 2 min in the selectol. I couldn't figure out why the paper was so stained, I know that emaks/fotokima is a warm paper, but it was SO warm that the paper looked like there was a major flaw in my processing.
After dumping a jug of dektol, and going through each variable, i came to the conclusion that the reason my prints were so stained was because overdevelopment made a warmer print, in my case so warm I thought there was a physical defect.
After adjustment, I found that I want my development time somewhere in the neighborhood of four minutes total instead of six. Development times near two minutes gave me a cool print, and times upward of five minutes were too warm for this project. Three minutes in Dektol 1:1 and one minute in selectol 1:2 seemed to be perfect for a three or four minute selenium 1:20 toning.
I feel like I'm beginning to see the print now, I'm ready to reshoot for the prints. I had initially just begun shooting [portraits], and I spent yesterday in the darkroom trying to resolve a print. Now that I have a print worked out that I like, I can't wait to get back in the studio and put it all together.!