Printing

[gchpaco]

Mmm, printing.

The downsides to going and printing in a darkroom are pretty obvious. Dealing with toxic chemicals, very light fussy paper, minutes between what you did and when you can check it out (only slightly shorter because I'm using the school's automatic paper developing machine), and so on. And yet... And yet I did thirty rolls of contact sheets today and marked a whole bunch of negatives for further attention and got pretty good prints of three of them, in about two hours with the half an hour startup lag for the developing machine and losing about ten minutes to a paper jam. It takes me about two hours to generate contact sheets for two rolls when I do them digitally.

I'm not experienced enough yet to be able to look at a print and say `ah, grade 5'. There's some magic you can do in Photoshop that is just really involved in a darkroom. And I'm not printing color in a darkroom—no way. So there's a lot Photoshop has going for it.

But quickly printing a lot of negatives? No dice.

You lot'll probably be getting more photos uploaded soon, assuming I can prevent school from eating me.