Printing

Today after while at work my boss asked me what I had planned, I told him try and get a sucessful print of the ones I worked on the day before. Well, it worked out. I came home, bullshitted with my mother for a little bit and then decided once my girlfriend went to work I would do some more printing. So I set up my stuff, measured my chemicals and got the temps right, and went to work on getting a print. Two tries. First one, slightly under exposed, and the second one, even though I didnt do any dodging, was a success in my book.

_{Gallery Books, Mount Vernon
© Copyright 2006 Thomas Simpson}

The image you see above, it taken straight from negative, with minor dodging done at the lower half of the image, I need to make some dodging tools for later on and when I do a much larger print of it I will use them to dodge in the bottom section. The specs on the image, are 12 second exposure at ƒ8 developed 1 minute in Dektol 1:2. I feel pretty proud of myself now I suppose. I feel that I can finally say I am a true photographer, I shot that image, manually, none of this autofocus, auto exposure bullshit, I developed it myself, and I printed it myself. Imma happy dude right now. Thats pretty much all I have at the moment.