Making a B&W print

 

Equipment 

• Enlargers 

Condenser Enlarger
Diffusion Enlarger
Color Head Enlarger 

• Filters 
• Safe Lights
• Film Processing Tank
• Thermometers
• Print Trays
• Timers
• Print Washing Tray
• Print Tongs

Film Processing Chemicals 

• Film Developer
• Stop Bath
• Fixer - (Also called Hypo) 
• Hypo Clearing Agent
• "Wetting Agent" 
• Chemical "Life Span"
• Chemical Disposal 

The first thing you have to do when you're making a B&W photo is getting your film on the regular photo paper. Once you've done that, put the photo paper through a series of chemicals while timing them. The photo usually shouldn't have to stay in the chemical for more than two minutes. When you begin to see the picture on your photo paper(after the series of chemicals) you'll proceed to put your photo in water for about 10 minutes to stop all the chemicals from continuing to develop any further. After the 10 minutes are up, take the paper out of the water, squeegee the paper and let it finish drying.   

1. emulsion: a mixture of two or more immisible (unblendable) liquids.
2. aperture: a hole or an opening through which light travels.
3. masking ease:  Use photoshop masking, one of the most effective image manipulation techniques.This tutorial will focus on using Channels to help mask out a complex objects with clean edges.
4. exposure: the total amount of light allowed to fall on the sensor during the taking of a photograph
5. safe light: is a light source suitable for use in a photographic darkroom
6. dodging & burning: are terms used in photography for a technique used during the printing process to manipulate the exposure of a selected area(s) on a photographic print, deviating from the rest of the image's exposure.