missteacher
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Hi everyone
Wonder if you can help me. I've recently set up a darkroom for the Photography department in the School I work. Having done a level photography, later doing a degree in photography, I have decided to go back to film photography after some years away.
The darkroom is fantastic. We have a durst M605 black and white enlarger and all the Ilford chemicals you could wish you. There is one problem though:
The prints arn't coming out right!
Although they may be over exposed prints, when I turn the lights on, they are grey, slightly biege/brown in colour and there is not a single intention of being black.
Where am i going wrong? Is it the lights (maintenance asure me the lights they have put up are darkroom safety strip lights) the enlarger? The paper? Or the chemicals.
PLEASE HELP ME! I start teaching darkroom lesson in a week and I have to fix the problem...
Wonder if you can help me. I've recently set up a darkroom for the Photography department in the School I work. Having done a level photography, later doing a degree in photography, I have decided to go back to film photography after some years away.
The darkroom is fantastic. We have a durst M605 black and white enlarger and all the Ilford chemicals you could wish you. There is one problem though:
The prints arn't coming out right!
Although they may be over exposed prints, when I turn the lights on, they are grey, slightly biege/brown in colour and there is not a single intention of being black.
Where am i going wrong? Is it the lights (maintenance asure me the lights they have put up are darkroom safety strip lights) the enlarger? The paper? Or the chemicals.
PLEASE HELP ME! I start teaching darkroom lesson in a week and I have to fix the problem...